MOST Rediculous Comment Made by your Previous Owner is??

WOW I hope you fixed that fuse panel. A fire waiting to happen!

 

"it doesn't have side covers, they're like $5 on ebay. An you should really get an airbox, I couldn't get it tuned with pods. You can get that for like $5 too" (PPO put on the pods). This is my first bike and project, so I got the sense that like $200 and everything would be good as new. He was right about the pods, although the fact that the exhaust nuts were loose on the right two headers might have made tuning more difficult.
"The rear brake keeps locking up, and I don't know why." Well the wear indicator says the shoes are toast, the pedal was bent and the drum was full of dust (or rust?), especially on the cam shaft.
Still a good deal for a project tho

 

Well, my PO was also my Dad. He was always full of good stuff.

"Getting a fat woman drunk is like driving a Winnebego with out brakes!"

"You can drink a mean girl nice, you can drink an ugly girl cute, but you can't drink a fat girl thin!"

ME: "Where are we going, Dad?"
DAD: "Up Mike, down Jake's. It's where they have the hottie pancakes." (Never did figure that one out.)

"That's about as f***ed up as a football bat!"

I remember Grandpa rebuilding a carb of an old '50 GMC grain truck. The first thing he did was put a sheet on the floor of the shop and begin tearing the carb apart. I asked him why he did that. He said, "Can't drop nothing." (This is wise advice, by the way)

Thanks for the memories, guys. I sure do miss them.

 

when i bought my 750, the kid told me:

"Its not a powerful bike, so if you plan on having someone ride on the back you may want to go bigger"

he was right, it wasnt powerful at all......had nothing to do with the fact that it was running on 2 cylinders of course.

 

"Runs great, drive it every weekend.. It idles a little fast, but there's a screw for that somewhere.."

The bike idles at 4000 RPM when warm; the intake manifolds are cracked and pretty much disintegrating.

 

shoot, my PO was my best man's dad, who i've known forever and a day, so he told me everything and then some.
gave me a file with every receipt he'd ever paid, told me where the bike had been serviced since new and get this: when he gave me the keys, the keychain was an ad for the shop who's been working on it, and the keychain is an XJ. i think i feel pretty confident with the work that has been done to this bike.

 

Me- "any leaks"
PO- "nope no leaks"
Me- " whats the fluid on the carb pan then?"
PO- " what fluid? oh i have no idea"
Me- " its gas and the finish on the lower cover is dull from it dripping"
PO- " i never had a puddle or ever smelt gas in my garage"
Me- "what u asking for it again?"
PO- "1200"
Me- " ha"

 

My son will learn from your dad and grandpa. That is a great one from your dad and your grandpa was a smart man.

 

"just replace this one thing, and it'll run fine!"

 

"Ran great before I did some tinkering"

cylinder was cracked from over torque and the carbs were a nightmare. But for $100 the price was right and I managed to find a cyclinder for $20 on ebay.

 

Man, if I only got on this forum before I bought my XJ....

Me being a trusting soul, I believed the PO when he said it ran like crap because the valves might need adjusting. I found out later two cylinders had cracked rings and something real hard had been beating around inside one of them.

So a new motor, several hundred dollars and many, many hours of labor later it runs great.