Muleskinner's new tire changer gadget

[muleskinner]

Nice video! I see now why my jack lifted the front wheel up and let the rear wheel hang down. That's because I used both legs on the jack, not just one at the rear of the oil pan. I positioned one leg at the front of the oil pan and one at the rear. My Sears jack is dimensionally like your jack, only Red in color.

Looking at the way you did it, it appears one could just mount one removable "eye hook" into the garage floor on both sides of the bike by the front forks and tie the front down to stabilize the bike.

Most of the time I'm alone at home when I work on my stuff. My nearest neighbor is one mile away. I'm retired and I keep my wife working to support my M/C toy habit! Most do drugs,,,,. I do bikes!

Now that I have reinvented the wheel and built the front wheel vise, I will use the vise to both change the rear tire and to hold the bike straight up while I change the engine oil. Leaning it on the kick stand is a pain in the ass! Let alone having to sit on the bike to lift it straight up so I can drain all of the oil out of the engine.

Some day after my wife gets two jobs, I will buy a professional M/C work stand like they use at the M/C shops! Don't tell her, otherwise she will retire too and I'll have her around all of the time having me do "Honey dos" instead of playing with my bikes!

 

[albertaduke]

life seems soooo hard for you I bleed (carrot juice ) for you I 'llsend you my wife and you send me yours blind trick. see if there are improvements mine does not make me do honey do.. but??

 

[muleskinner]

Yea life's a ***** and then ya die. But not before putting a lot of miles on my Rocket!

 

[muleskinner]

Drive shaft lube

I forgot to add in my other posts, while I had my rear wheel off I removed the final drive unit. I cleaned the drive shaft splines and inside of the final drive where the drive shaft goes in. I then lubed the shaft splines with Honda brand M/C "Moly 60" drive shaft spline lube.

There was a blue lube on the shaft from the factory, but due to the comments made by other posters regarding shaft spline failure, I wanted to make sure mine was lubed properly. I know. I'm anal. But if my shaft splines fail, it won't be due to improper lube.

Keep your shaft lubed! That's what she said anyway.

 

[DRMD421]

Mport, do you have the same yellow motorcycle lift stand as the one in the video? I bought that one at Harbor Freight and I'm pretty sure it was 70 bucks too. I've changed alot of tires on the Rocket and my old Valkyrie Interstate on that thing.

 

[DRMD421]

Nice job Muleskinner, very nice stand. So........
What does she sound like with those pipes removed?

 

[muleskinner]

Thanks! It will come in handy when I change my engine oil also.

I never even started it with the D&D's off. I'm sure it would have been way loud! When I first bought the D&D mufflers from Harry I thought they were a bit louder than I wanted. As time goes by I don't think I could have bought a better, more mellow sounding set of mufflers for the bike! From the comments I've heard here on the forum, I'm glad I did not buy the Triumph TORS mufflers!

With the PCV, the A/T and the D&D mufflers, I think I have the perfect combo for me. I was going to build a set of equal length headers also, but as time goes by I think I will stay stock. The bike looks classic with the stock log manifold and chrome shields and if Triumph ever stops building the bike, heck I might have a classic. Stock rare vehicles are always worth more than modified rare vehicles. One only has to watch the Barret Jackson auto auction to see that.

Now a Whiskey drinking Mule, priceless!

 

[DRMD421]

I was actually considering a set of D and D's because they are located about 20 miles from here. I'm gonna wait till I can hear some of the other folks bikes at the HUB in Sept. before I make a decision though. I've drilled the stock pipes out a bit and I'm happy with them for now.

 

[muleskinner]

Good idea. Listen to as many bikes as you can. The D&D mufflers kind of sound like a six cylinder sports car. Not loud, but mellow. Great for long rides. I'm done with the loud pipe thing. I had loud pipes on my Harley. Been there,,,,done that. Five hundred miles into a ride and I'm ready for quiet pipes!

 

[DRMD421]

I agree. I have to have a little rumble though. I had a Valkyrie with open pipes that sounded like a drag boat, but when I parked it for the night, I could still hear that scooter screaming for hours. That's a bit more than I'm looking for.