Why don't wives understand our logic?

It was time to replace my fork seals. Found great info here but didn't see the small part about needing a special tool. Got the first fork off and then could not remove the small allen bolt on the bottom. Manual doesn't mention that a special tool is needed and that the allen bolt is lock tight secure.

I call around to local shops for tool. ~$40 at all places.

Chacal has it for $18.95.

Mention needing a special tool to the wife and she says "Why buy a tool you will only use once? Find someone to do it for you or loan you a tool."

So I call around and the few shops that work on old bikes send their fork work out. I find the guy who does the fork work. $75 and 'NO' I won't loan my tool, even at my shop.

So I'm back to ordering the tool from Chacal (which I've done).

Why can't the wife just listen when I tell her that buying the tool would be the easiest and cheapest way to go? Instead I have to jump through 25 hoops to get back the starting point. :roll:

Any other good wife not understanding stories?

 

I just tell mine I'm getting parts I need - I don't specify tools....


Much easier that way.

 

I don't question her shoes and clothes and she doesn't question my 'toys'. It's a happy situation.

mikeg

 

A special tool? Cool. *lol* The forks were coming up soon on my to do list.
Chacal do you have a picture of this special tool?

 

MY BIKE IS THE CLOSEST THING TO A PERFECT WIFE!!!
She even listens well

 

Surprised someone hasn't mentioned this yet, but if you take a spark plug socket, flip it around and put it on extensions (so that wrong end is on the extensions) and put it down the fork tube it will hold the nut in place while you break it free with the allen key from the bottom of the fork.

 

Remember folks that there's two different sizes of that socket inside the forks too - 19mm and IIRC 22mm (X's?).
The vast majority of us use the 19mm version.

I made my own using a length of threaded rod and two 19mm outside nuts locked together at the end.

 

Why tell her anything thats above her current knowledge?

Do you work? then you can buy something for yourself. its not like you are buying an expensive item. you in turn can rent out your tool to re coup the money you spend.

 

I used sparkplug reverse mothod I saw in the forum and worked like charm.

As for the logic with wife well that is another story. I tell mine that she can do her way inside the house but in the garage it is all mine.

 

Girls play with dolls and boys play with tonka trucks. Need i say more.

 

Never needed the Special Tool to do the Front Forks.
The first time I needed one a Lead Tech told me it was cheaper to make my own.
2-1/2' (feet) of Steel Rod.
1-19mm Hex Nut
1-22mm Hex Nut

Grind down both ends of the Rod so you can place the Nut on the end over the Rod.
Weld both Nuts to either end of the Rod.
Dress the welds so that the Nut has a flat surface area to fit the Dammper Rod.
Done.

Universal Fork Damper Tool.
$5.00 or less.

 

I have gone to the shop a few times with everything disassembled so the muckanic can just bang away with his "special" tool for the moment it takes to do and in most cases the payment question is waved aside,in return I buy the stuff I need at the shop.
On the rare occasion there is a labour charge I make a judgement on whetther I'm being gouged or the cost is fair and legit and make future purchase decisions based on how I was treated.
Just bear in mind that they are running a business and try to arrive at a quiet time of the day.

 

Sorry keeps posting twice.
Hillsy your right, in the shop the 'special' tool for forks is the rattle gun!
So fast its rare for a shop to have the hide to charge for it.

 

In all the time I've worked in bike shops I've NEVER needed special tools to undo forks. All you need to do is undo the damper bolt with a rattle gun while the springs are still in the forks. Works every time.

 

this is why they dont understand our logic...

in "as good as it gets" Jack Nicholson is talking with Diane Keaton...

D has just found out that J is the very popolar writer of a very popular column in a very popular womans magazine. it has readership of the magazine going thru the roof and everyone anxiously awaits the new issues...

D "how do you do such a great job understanding the female psyche and explaining everything to everyone?

J "its very easy. i just think like a MAN, and throw out ALL reason and accountability...

 

lol mine couldn't figure out why i wanted another bike when the last three almost killed me each time....but i just get up pull the I.V.s out dust myself off and keep going lol i even got the me or the bike talk still have them both

 

If logic was all I needed to be happy, I wouldn't need a wife.

 

How my wife and I think differently (two examples):

One time she said "I need you to pick up the kids by six at church so I can go to a meeting." I arrived at 5:55 thinking very highly of myself. She was not happy. "You should have known that I needed you here at least 20 minutes early so I could get ready for my meeting!", she said. Now when she asks me to be somewhere by a certain time I ask does she mean that time literally or does she really mean earlier.

Then, another time I was hungry so I went to the pantry and got a can of French Onion soup. In a couple of days I got a call at work, "did you eat the can of French Onion soup?", she asked. When I answered yes she said "I can't believe you ate a can of soup to the right of the pop tart box, you're never supposed to eat soup from the right. Soup to the left is for eating, soup to the right is for cooking. We've been married 18 years and you don't know that?'

I was stunned. So the next time I went to the pantry I thought I knew the rules. But now there was soup to the left, soup to the right, and soup in front of the pop tart box. I froze like a deer in headlights. I didn't get any soup that day.

 

Good thing none of them have found this therapy group yet. my usual experience goes like this:

(have to be somewhere at "X" o'clock)

1/2 hour before leaving -
me- "I'm gonna take a quick shower."
her - "we have to be there in half an hour!"
me - "It's five minutes away, I'll be out of the shower and dressed in 10.
her- "Uh-huh.
15 minutes later I'm dressed ready to go
me -"ready? Let get going"
her-we don't have to leave yet.
me -Let's go, get a parking spot, walk up, and not have to rush.
5 minutes before we should be there
HER- are you ready?
me - I've been sitting here waiting.
her - I thought you were busy reading the paper
me (flustered) "My coat's already on --Ok,Let's go."
I stand up and head right down the stairs AND..............
she walks into the bathroom........................................

 

Artie I LMBO Hilarious.

 

Hogfiddles,

I also have two daughters (highschool and middleschool) in addition to the wife. I usually end up sitting in the car waiting on all three.

But your scenario is one I have experienced many times.

 

Artie,

I don't envy you..........my wife has three sisters, two of which live within 5 mi either direction,and both houses have irresponsible niece issues Her mom lives at the other end of the field. I don't have house full, but I DO have a life full of them.

 

Artie(RT)...just eat the pop tarts make it easy and filling :lol: