Kevin is a legend for sure, but Mark deserves a lot of respect too. He has a ton of real world experience, demonstrates sound knowledge, and it’s obvious he sure has spun a lot of wrenches in his day and cared enough to always seek out learning opportunities while sweating the details. I see you Mark. 🫡
I've always told my friends a good mechanic knows how to take of their threads, now to add to that, a good mechanic knows how to deal with rusty parts. Excellent video thank you!
I worked on Hondas back in the mid 60's and remember when the only place to get a metric bolt or screw was at the Honda dealer. I'd have to order what I needed and it took from two to three weeks to get them. I think there was some kind of thread locker on the Honda case covers so every one of those JIS heads were stripped out by the screwdriver. I've got a full set of the Vessel JIS screwdrivers and impact driver bits. What a difference!
I've been reading CW since the 1970s. I ALWAYS turned to Kevin's page before any other article. It's fascinating to sit here and listen to him. He's the Santa Claus of the workshop.
Hi again gents, I love these discussions. This and the ones on the RD350 and TZs were I think my favourites. Like you, I’m still changing my own tyres and like you I have my favourite tools. And damn me if Some of them are not the same ones you showed us! I guess it to do with some 50 years of enjoying working on motorcycles as much as riding/ racing them. Thank you both for these wonderful talks. JackYamaha Sunshine Coast Oz.
The subject of hammers reminds me of my very favorite phrase from the English shop manuals “Select a suitable drift”. I think of it every time I go to the hammer drawer. 😅
My first motorcycle specific tool was a vessel impact tool that came in a blue metal box. I purchased from a motorcycle shop for $9.99 in 1973 to remove screws on an H1. I never heard of the brand and expressed my concern if the tool was of high quality. I was assured it was. Over the years, the tool proved to be invaluable. It’s still in my tool box
My favorite tools are all ones that I inherited: a ball-peen that was my grandfather's with a handle that he obviously made himself, a toolbox of autobody tools that belonged to my late twin brother, my dad's micrometers. In a very real way they're still around, helping me on my projects.
Love these guys. Never got to meet Mark FTF, but loved hanging out with Kevin in the pits at Daytona, back in the early 70s. Keep it up, please. And keep it archived, so when I've heard them all, I can start all over again.
I stand head and shoulders above my peers, because I am standing on all the broken parts and tools Ive destroyed over the years,” I think Erv Kanemoto said that.
This reminds me of something my dad once told me about working in the garage: "I only know the right way of doing it because I've already tried all the wrong ways."
Here's the deal with synchronising the 'carburetors'. When you synchronise the carburetor blades perfectly with a drill bit or fine wire, or even on a flow bench, you will ALWAYS have to re-adjust them with the mercury columns with the engine running. This is because you are not actually balancing the carburetor throttle blade angles. You are actually equalising the intake manifold pressures, and to equalise the pressures, the throttle angles will always be slightly different to each other. This is because any multi-cylinder engine behaves like several individual engines, because of a multitude of reasons, of which each cylinder operates at a different efficiency to any of its opposing cylinders, no matter how finely blueprinted those cylinders are to each other. If you were to set all the throttle blade angles perfectly to each other on a flow bench, then adjust them with the mercury manometer, if you were to remove the carbs again and measure them on the on the flow bench again, they would all flow slightly differently. Any multi-cylinder engine is effectively several different engines. Thank you. Darren Parkinson. Engine Development Services. Sydney, Australia.
Aspiring DIY home mechanic here and have slowly learned that maintenance jobs go much more smoothly with quality tools and taking the time how to use them properly. Great episode👍
Good episode. I was lucky when young to have 2 mentors who told me the importance of using the right tool for the job, and buying the best quality that could. Decades later, i'm grateful i listened.
Fantastic podcast yet agan! Perhaps my favourite tool as an aircraft mechanic is my mini, long-reach Snap-On cutters p/n: 808CF. Just about every air-mech in the business has a set, the best for lockwire and split-pins in hard-to-reach areas. Would love to hear an episode on the Kawasaki Z1300 six-cylinder. From what I can gather, a lot of clever engineering went into it. Or perhaps do an inline-6 episode that lumps in the Honda CBX and Binelli Sei at the same time. Cheers and keep up the great work!
JIS screwdrivers even feel better on a Phillips screw, because they seem to go deeper and have a much better, positive grab. Wonderful as always, thank you guys ! From California by the sea ~ Ride Forever! 🦅
Please consider doing a podcast in the future about the Japanese manufacturers taking on Harley Davidson. I love Harleys, but since I couldn't afford a used Harley I bought a Virago 1100 instead. Love it to bits. I think it would make for an interesting conversation with the tarifs that were placed on them as Harley faltered for a while. Thanks guys once again for a great podcast.
I have a yamaha xv1000 TR1 8.5:1 compression enclosed chain , essentially chain drive, revvier version of the virago with more euro riding position. I guess these are street engines, flat tracker was never a winner, so the race guys didn't take much interest in them.
I adore cycle world podcast!!!! Mark is extremely knowledgeable and I learn from him, every episode. Mr. Cameron is on another planet! And Mark, as well as the rest of us, learn from Kevin almost every word!!! And just like the old days when magazines were around I’d have to read what he wrote again and again… Now it’s the remote…, what did he say? 😂 But I appreciate someone’s comment about putting Kevin in bubblewrap, but NO!!! Then I won’t be able to listen and rewind!!! 😂 Merry Christmas Cycle World podcast team, Kevin & Mark! 🏍️🎄
The Land Rover guys carry a magnet now looking for magnetic copper washers. Apparently one supplier coats steel washers with a copper looking coating. They don't seal like crushed copper. JB Weld has come in handy as well as duct tape for field repairs.
My brother had a pair of tire irons which were "L" shaped. One end had the normal spoon shape, while the other end had a pair of slotted holes to slip over a spoke, about 4 or 5 in per leg. Very handy to start a bead off and then hold it there while you worked your way around the rim for solo work.
My tool chest seems much more satisfactory since I started watching TH-cam videos of roadside truck repairs from Pakistan. Armed with little more than screw-jacks, short-handle sledge hammers, pry bars, big blocks of wood, and a few poor-quality end-wrenches, they work night and day to get those overloaded leaf-spring trucks with snapped axles back on the road. Replacement parts? No way! They simply throw the broken pieces in the back of a rickshaw and haul them to a nearby open-air machine shop where they weld and re-machine ‘em. When frames fail, they drag the trucks to open-air frame yards where they fabricate new multi-layer frame rails from sheet steel and assemble them into replacement truck frames.
I've never regretted buying a quality tool. I still have some I bought 60 years ago. I've also bought some really cheap tools thinking it only has to work once then I'll never need it again. Sometimes those surprise you by being pretty good, other times they don't even work once.
A few thoughts: I guess my newest favorite tool is my smart phone. I take dozens of pictures before taking something apart. Never a question about what goes where. It's surprisingly easy to forget when a project is taking a long time to get to the reassembly phase. There are some great useful apps, like a protractor app that does pretty much what Mark's protractor does, and you can get tiny borescopes that plug in, so you can check piston crowns and cylinder wall condition. I'm surprised neither one mentioned a surface plate. So many uses for one. You can roll an axle on one to check straightness. You can plop a cylinder head on one and check that it's not warped. But many of my favorites are specialized wrenches and things that I've made or modified for a specific purpose. Put a torch on a cheap wrench and bend it to the perfect angle for a hard to access fastener, and you will smile every time you use it. Great podcast, and I'm hoping you do one about torqueing fasteners. That'd be swell!
Never heard of a torque screwdriver, so now I'm shopping for one. My favorite tool is now my Rabaconda tire changer. It changed the FJR rear w/o any fuss. Made me throw my No-Mar changer in the trash. It's got a duckbill like a Coats.
Just buy a few British bolts and studs and use them as the gauge. Commandos use Cycle threads 26TPI and of course the course thread is varied. My Ryobi battery drill motors have 20 settings and do a great job to get the fasteners snugged up.
I really enjoy going back with these videos I've used nearly every tool shown and described in this video and learned mechanics by doing it and working with older very patience techs in my years of working on things it was really interesting growing as a person/technician thru years of experience you can never stop learning thru the years as engineers kept challenging us as techs.
Enjoyed hearing you talk about your favorite toosl and the experiences you had with them. Interesting that these are mostly tools that were store-bought. My favorites are the ones that I made for specific jobs. Mostly back in the 70's and 80's when suppliers and information was a more difficult to come by. My to favorite homemade tool was for removing the retaining nut holding the spring in the sportster fork. Some of you may know what I'm talking about. This would have been in the mid 70's or so.
I still have my points checker, just like Kevin's. I still remember the timing specs for all Yamahas with points. I have antique tools in my tool box and in my head. Sudco is gone! That is sad. When I started my career only Snap on had combination wrenches larger than 19mm. They are beautiful tools but a good tool pays for itself. I have the tool for adjusting the stroke of a Yamaha oil injection pump, another for taking the speedo drive gears out of a drum brake back plate, the screw in window for checking the timing on a TX750. Just a few of the things I should throw away but can't seem to.
I like safety wire pliers and a good mechanical torque wrench with allen key sockets. Dielectic grease for electrical connections. And Oetiker clamp pliers.
Love tools been addicted to them as young as i can remember used to work for my uncle as a kid he didnt pay me in toys he payed me in tools.lost a lot of my tools in a flood last year but the good steel ones have cleaned up .hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿
A wonderfull Tool. Desmodromic closure of the inlet valves will be very usefull in combination with the Miller Cycle and extremely high kompression ratio...as in the new Ducati/Audi F1 engine Kevin could explain it all with His onomatopoetical sucking squeezing banging and so forth noices. Wonderfull Stuff!
Great times you guys remind me of my best years in the mid 80's in the uk as a young 19 year old building yamaha 125 lc's and 250 400 dx air cooled bikes mmy appartment was full of bikes and my refrigerator full of rd engines ,,,,,,,
Interesting stuff love my torque wrenches my 3/8 one even has provision for degrees of rotation that is so common today btw any idea why they went to that? because if u follow manufacturers torque specs and the proper lube in the right places you’d 🧐 that would b ok ? Right ?
my Vessel impact driver in the blue box got retired after many times biting the web of skin between my thumb and forefinger. the snap-on one didn't do that. but, don't mistake me for a fan of snap-on, I'm a Stahlwille man !
Visit an old-school gunsmith sometime, but hurry! All manner of petite, miniature leverage, tapping and wrenching devices, many built right in that same shop. As to bike tools, I prize my 1971 Koken Tool Company impact driver with the 8mm hex bits. That and my overly large Melco TL-37 tyre levers. In '73 or thereabouts, I bought two tools from the local MAC tool fellow: a MAC 1/2-9/16 swivel socket wrench and a Blackhawk 3/8 socket spinner. Still have all and they are exactly as useful as they ever were.
This is the ultimate tool nurds video. Thanks for the chance to eavesdrop. Have to admit I am "Vengeful and jealous" when it comes to changing tyres. Snap On or Snap Off the eternal question. "Misty silver death cloud" hilarious. Shared tools? Just say no.
How did you use a manometer carb sync took on the Amal concentric's? The carbs don't have a port to hook up a vacuum gauge. I tried using my Morgan Carb Tune pro on my Triumph T140 by taking off the rubber cross over tube that connects the carb manifolds and hooking up 2 hoses from the Carb Tune Pro, but it wouldn't give me a proper reading. Not sure why not.
The spigots on Norton intake manifolds that are normally connected by a short length of hose provide the vacuum. Not sure why that didn't work on a T140 but it was perfect on the Norton.
As a life long mechanic/technician, that hour and 16 minute video felt more like 12. I own many tools that have never seen the light of day and others that look like they have been eroded by the waters of the Colorado and the winds of the Sahara. I find a sense of comfort by going through my boxes and remembering vividly when, where, why & how they were acquired.
Why do I know exactly what they are talking about??? Maybe because I am 75 and did those things but I really wish I knew then what I know now, it would stopped a lot of wailing, renting of garment and pulling of hair.😊 trouble is I am now too old to use the knowledge I have nowadays 😢
I'm not one for branded stuff, so a friend gave me some Yamalube tire lube in a spray can as kind of a joke, and that's turned out to be "teh f*ckin sh*t" - the spray can has control, and the stuff doesn't evaporate in a 115F Florida garage.
How timely. I've been machining for 42 years now. I was out for a few months last year, and someone used my MATCO or Craftsman 32 oz ball pein when I was out, and broke the handle on the oldest tool in my toolbox. They bought me a new Proto, but it just isn't the same. But speaking of the old days, I had Jack McCornack as a motorcycle mechanics ROP instructor. My buddy ended up with an A7R from him, with the closest ratio, super tall first gear engine that I had ever seen. I ended up with an S3 Kawasaki, that had ama tech Inspection stickers all over it. He said it got 3rd at Daytona in 400 production. The stock pipes that been cut apart and reshaped inside, and was the fastest 400 I'd ever seen. Our buddy had an H2, brand new purple one, 75 I believe, and McCornack had that guy get his 750 out and they punched off on a road down below Seaside High School, and that 400 wheelied away from him with McCornack riding it.
I stand head and shoulders above my peers, because I am standing on all the broken parts and tools Ive destroyed over the years,” I think Erv Kanemoto said that.
Someone wrap Kevin in bubble wrap. He needs to be protected at all cost, his motorcycle knowledge is second to none 🥸
Both Mark and Kevin speak my language. I could listen to them all day long and even learn a thing or three.
Experience is what you have 30 minutes after you really need it.
Kevin's talent for impersonating mechanical sounds, always a joy.
Kevin is a legend for sure, but Mark deserves a lot of respect too. He has a ton of real world experience, demonstrates sound knowledge, and it’s obvious he sure has spun a lot of wrenches in his day and cared enough to always seek out learning opportunities while sweating the details. I see you Mark. 🫡
This episode has earned Mark my respect.
Plus that mustache!
I've always told my friends a good mechanic knows how to take of their threads, now to add to that, a good mechanic knows how to deal with rusty parts. Excellent video thank you!
I worked on Hondas back in the mid 60's and remember when the only place to get a metric bolt or screw was at the Honda dealer. I'd have to order what I needed and it took from two to three weeks to get them. I think there was some kind of thread locker on the Honda case covers so every one of those JIS heads were stripped out by the screwdriver. I've got a full set of the Vessel JIS screwdrivers and impact driver bits. What a difference!
Vessel drivers are now made in Thailand, but are still superb tools.
I've been reading CW since the 1970s. I ALWAYS turned to Kevin's page before any other article. It's fascinating to sit here and listen to him. He's the Santa Claus of the workshop.
Hi again gents, I love these discussions. This and the ones on the RD350 and TZs were I think my favourites. Like you, I’m still changing my own tyres and like you I have my favourite tools. And damn me if Some of them are not the same ones you showed us! I guess it to do with some 50 years of enjoying working on motorcycles as much as riding/ racing them.
Thank you both for these wonderful talks.
JackYamaha
Sunshine Coast Oz.
TGIW! Motorcyclists' new favorite day of the week!!!
The subject of hammers reminds me of my very favorite phrase from the English shop manuals “Select a suitable drift”. I think of it every time I go to the hammer drawer. 😅
My first motorcycle specific tool was a vessel impact tool that came in a blue metal box. I purchased from a motorcycle shop for $9.99 in 1973 to remove screws on an H1. I never heard of the brand and expressed my concern if the tool was of high quality. I was assured it was. Over the years, the tool proved to be invaluable. It’s still in my tool box
My favorite tools are all ones that I inherited: a ball-peen that was my grandfather's with a handle that he obviously made himself, a toolbox of autobody tools that belonged to my late twin brother, my dad's micrometers. In a very real way they're still around, helping me on my projects.
Love these guys. Never got to meet Mark FTF, but loved hanging out with Kevin in the pits at Daytona, back in the early 70s. Keep it up, please. And keep it archived, so when I've heard them all, I can start all over again.
Bought my first set of SnapOn tools 55yrs ago- 12pt deep well 3/8” sockets with ratchet-on sale $25.00.
The buy of a life time.
Now 400
I stand head and shoulders above my peers, because I am standing on all the broken parts and tools Ive destroyed over the years,” I think Erv Kanemoto said that.
This reminds me of something my dad once told me about working in the garage: "I only know the right way of doing it because I've already tried all the wrong ways."
G’day from Oz. I’m loving the podcasts. Entertaining AND informative for this 70yr old.
Kroil - don't leave home without it. 😎👍
Here's the deal with synchronising the 'carburetors'.
When you synchronise the carburetor blades perfectly with a drill bit or fine wire, or even on a flow bench, you will ALWAYS have to re-adjust them with the mercury columns with the engine running.
This is because you are not actually balancing the carburetor throttle blade angles. You are actually equalising the intake manifold pressures, and to equalise the pressures, the throttle angles will always be slightly different to each other.
This is because any multi-cylinder engine behaves like several individual engines, because of a multitude of reasons, of which each cylinder operates at a different efficiency to any of its opposing cylinders, no matter how finely blueprinted those cylinders are to each other.
If you were to set all the throttle blade angles perfectly to each other on a flow bench, then adjust them with the mercury manometer, if you were to remove the carbs again and measure them on the on the flow bench again, they would all flow slightly differently.
Any multi-cylinder engine is effectively several different engines.
Thank you.
Darren Parkinson.
Engine Development Services.
Sydney, Australia.
Some very cool little tools! Nice gadgets
Aspiring DIY home mechanic here and have slowly learned that maintenance jobs go much more smoothly with quality tools and taking the time how to use them properly. Great episode👍
Another great show.
Good episode. I was lucky when young to have 2 mentors who told me the importance of using the right tool for the job, and buying the best quality that could. Decades later, i'm grateful i listened.
…and those KUM pencil sharpeners come with a spare set of blades 👍
Fantastic podcast yet agan! Perhaps my favourite tool as an aircraft mechanic is my mini, long-reach Snap-On cutters p/n: 808CF. Just about every air-mech in the business has a set, the best for lockwire and split-pins in hard-to-reach areas. Would love to hear an episode on the Kawasaki Z1300 six-cylinder. From what I can gather, a lot of clever engineering went into it. Or perhaps do an inline-6 episode that lumps in the Honda CBX and Binelli Sei at the same time. Cheers and keep up the great work!
JIS screwdrivers even feel better on a Phillips screw, because they seem to go deeper and have a much better, positive grab.
Wonderful as always, thank you guys !
From California by the sea ~ Ride Forever! 🦅
Please consider doing a podcast in the future about the Japanese manufacturers taking on Harley Davidson. I love Harleys, but since I couldn't afford a used Harley I bought a Virago 1100 instead. Love it to bits. I think it would make for an interesting conversation with the tarifs that were placed on them as Harley faltered for a while. Thanks guys once again for a great podcast.
Do you remember the 1980s H-D ad that was written in Japanese?
I have a yamaha xv1000 TR1 8.5:1 compression enclosed chain , essentially chain drive, revvier version of the virago with more euro riding position. I guess these are street engines, flat tracker was never a winner, so the race guys didn't take much interest in them.
@@MatthewFelgate-r4u A high percentage of the Viragos left are now cafe racers.
@@HAL9000-su1mz great torque
I adore cycle world podcast!!!! Mark is extremely knowledgeable and I learn from him, every episode. Mr. Cameron is on another planet! And Mark, as well as the rest of us, learn from Kevin almost every word!!! And just like the old days when magazines were around I’d have to read what he wrote again and again… Now it’s the remote…, what did he say? 😂
But I appreciate someone’s comment about putting Kevin in bubblewrap, but NO!!! Then I won’t be able to listen and rewind!!! 😂
Merry Christmas Cycle World podcast team, Kevin & Mark! 🏍️🎄
GOOD JOB Guys!
Ok, you got me with the solder sucker.
By the way, your RD350 could have had loose coil lead male/female connectors. Drove me crazy for about 3 weeks.
Remember the Unisyn for synchronizing carburetors? EBAY still has a listing for them..
Marc Salvisberg at Factory Pro makes the finest carb kits, in particular, for that Ducati in the background, including sacred o-rings !
The Land Rover guys carry a magnet now looking for magnetic copper washers. Apparently one supplier coats steel washers with a copper looking coating. They don't seal like crushed copper.
JB Weld has come in handy as well as duct tape for field repairs.
I've never been so excited about a pencil sharpener.
@@ekudds those are spectacular!
Me too not Nor about Marks missplaced Beardtrimmer
A man can never have enough tools
My brother had a pair of tire irons which were "L" shaped. One end had the normal spoon shape, while the other end had a pair of slotted holes to slip over a spoke, about 4 or 5 in per leg. Very handy to start a bead off and then hold it there while you worked your way around the rim for solo work.
I love these shows and really enjoy Keven's way of explaining things.
My tool chest seems much more satisfactory since I started watching TH-cam videos of roadside truck repairs from Pakistan. Armed with little more than screw-jacks, short-handle sledge hammers, pry bars, big blocks of wood, and a few poor-quality end-wrenches, they work night and day to get those overloaded leaf-spring trucks with snapped axles back on the road. Replacement parts? No way! They simply throw the broken pieces in the back of a rickshaw and haul them to a nearby open-air machine shop where they weld and re-machine ‘em. When frames fail, they drag the trucks to open-air frame yards where they fabricate new multi-layer frame rails from sheet steel and assemble them into replacement truck frames.
Hoyer likes to measure. I'm admiring you for no particular reason!
I still daily use the sparkplug reader I got from the Champion man at my first race weekend in 1976 !
I've never regretted buying a quality tool. I still have some I bought 60 years ago. I've also bought some really cheap tools thinking it only has to work once then I'll never need it again. Sometimes those surprise you by being pretty good, other times they don't even work once.
A few thoughts: I guess my newest favorite tool is my smart phone. I take dozens of pictures before taking something apart. Never a question about what goes where. It's surprisingly easy to forget when a project is taking a long time to get to the reassembly phase. There are some great useful apps, like a protractor app that does pretty much what Mark's protractor does, and you can get tiny borescopes that plug in, so you can check piston crowns and cylinder wall condition. I'm surprised neither one mentioned a surface plate. So many uses for one. You can roll an axle on one to check straightness. You can plop a cylinder head on one and check that it's not warped. But many of my favorites are specialized wrenches and things that I've made or modified for a specific purpose. Put a torch on a cheap wrench and bend it to the perfect angle for a hard to access fastener, and you will smile every time you use it. Great podcast, and I'm hoping you do one about torqueing fasteners. That'd be swell!
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. There is sweet philosophy here, and there.
Never heard of a torque screwdriver, so now I'm shopping for one. My favorite tool is now my Rabaconda tire changer. It changed the FJR rear w/o any fuss. Made me throw my No-Mar changer in the trash. It's got a duckbill like a Coats.
Good content! Enjoyable to learn more.
Just buy a few British bolts and studs and use them as the gauge. Commandos use Cycle threads 26TPI and of course the course thread is varied. My Ryobi battery drill motors have 20 settings and do a great job to get the fasteners snugged up.
I really enjoy going back with these videos I've used nearly every tool shown and described in this video and learned mechanics by doing it and working with older very patience techs in my years of working on things it was really interesting growing as a person/technician thru years of experience you can never stop learning thru the years as engineers kept challenging us as techs.
Enjoyed hearing you talk about your favorite toosl and the experiences you had with them. Interesting that these are mostly tools that were store-bought. My favorites are the ones that I made for specific jobs. Mostly back in the 70's and 80's when suppliers and information was a more difficult to come by. My to favorite homemade tool was for removing the retaining nut holding the spring in the sportster fork. Some of you may know what I'm talking about. This would have been in the mid 70's or so.
THANKS A LOT MARK! My wallet is screaming at me now, because I have to get a WIHA torque screwdriver AND a Fowler digital protractor! Damn you!
Thank you fellas!
Trailer ball tight? Ridgid pipe wrench!
Hey, great point! I'll have to get a pipe wrench, of course.
PULLERS! Not even sure what all the ones l have go to! Husqvarna, Bultaco, Yamaha, Honda? How bout a Kawasaki frame jack? Got one of those too.
Don't waste your money on Aerokroil. Liquid Wrench is the best on the market and is one of the cheapest as tested by Project Farm.
" Pinched Tubes!" I once said "I would rather pull the engine a split the cases than change a tire!"
I was joking. I think.
I still have my points checker, just like Kevin's. I still remember the timing specs for all Yamahas with points. I have antique tools in my tool box and in my head. Sudco is gone! That is sad. When I started my career only Snap on had combination wrenches larger than 19mm. They are beautiful tools but a good tool pays for itself. I have the tool for adjusting the stroke of a Yamaha oil injection pump, another for taking the speedo drive gears out of a drum brake back plate, the screw in window for checking the timing on a TX750.
Just a few of the things I should throw away but can't seem to.
I like safety wire pliers and a good mechanical torque wrench with allen key sockets. Dielectic grease for electrical connections. And Oetiker clamp pliers.
Don't forget, when u need to remove nuts, or bolts, with damaged heads, there's always 'flank drive' combination keys too!
These episodes are special tools
Love tools been addicted to them as young as i can remember used to work for my uncle as a kid he didnt pay me in toys he payed me in tools.lost a lot of my tools in a flood last year but the good steel ones have cleaned up .hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿
I think your tire irons came from a BMW tool kit, I have the same ones but I uses
2 Michelin tire iron from Moto-Race, Mass.
A wonderfull Tool. Desmodromic closure of the inlet valves will be very usefull in combination with the Miller Cycle and extremely high kompression ratio...as in the new Ducati/Audi F1 engine Kevin could explain it all with His onomatopoetical sucking squeezing banging and so forth noices. Wonderfull Stuff!
Great times you guys remind me of my best years in the mid 80's in the uk as a young 19 year old building yamaha 125 lc's and 250 400 dx air cooled bikes mmy appartment was full of bikes and my refrigerator full of rd engines ,,,,,,,
My favorite tools are my VacuumMate digital carb sync tool and my Vacula brake bleeder.
Carbs , Phill Denton Engineering in England. They rack mounted a pair of FCRs for my EX500 racebike .
Interesting stuff love my torque wrenches my 3/8 one even has provision for degrees of rotation that is so common today btw any idea why they went to that? because if u follow manufacturers torque specs and the proper lube in the right places you’d 🧐 that would b ok ? Right ?
my Vessel impact driver in the blue box got retired after many times biting the web of skin between my thumb and forefinger. the snap-on one didn't do that. but, don't mistake me for a fan of snap-on, I'm a Stahlwille man !
At least in Calif numerous NAPA stores still make up hoses in house . Maybe because we are an agricultural area
Visit an old-school gunsmith sometime, but hurry! All manner of petite, miniature leverage, tapping and wrenching devices, many built right in that same shop. As to bike tools, I prize my 1971 Koken Tool Company impact driver with the 8mm hex bits. That and my overly large Melco TL-37 tyre levers. In '73 or thereabouts, I bought two tools from the local MAC tool fellow: a MAC 1/2-9/16 swivel socket wrench and a Blackhawk 3/8 socket spinner. Still have all and they are exactly as useful as they ever were.
It's great to go out and get the perfectly sized snapon tool. But it won't help if the faster is on the wrong side of it's tolerances.
My spoke wrench from Buchanan's.
My RDS are long gone but I still have that Yamaha dial gauge to set the timing
Mechanical fingers...part of my Rolls-Royce aeto engine provided tool set.
try changing tires or tubes on a '77 Laverda cast wheel ! almost no well to drop the bead into ! maybe that's why my hands don't work anymore.
Respect.
I have a set of Dowidat combination wrenches Made in West Germany. One of my prized possessions.
My british guage is on the way now. Just got the notice.
This is the ultimate tool nurds video. Thanks for the chance to eavesdrop.
Have to admit I am "Vengeful and jealous" when it comes to changing tyres.
Snap On or Snap Off the eternal question.
"Misty silver death cloud" hilarious.
Shared tools? Just say no.
If you recommend this to a friend that you
considered a "Motorcycle Guy" and he didn't like it, not really a motorcycle guy.
The loss of Sudco is frustrating. Is Keihin still making Carbs?
Never like using a dti to set tdc always prefer the piston stop and timing disc method
Carb sync on RDs? Finger tips!
How did you use a manometer carb sync took on the Amal concentric's? The carbs don't have a port to hook up a vacuum gauge. I tried using my Morgan Carb Tune pro on my Triumph T140 by taking off the rubber cross over tube that connects the carb manifolds and hooking up 2 hoses from the Carb Tune Pro, but it wouldn't give me a proper reading. Not sure why not.
The spigots on Norton intake manifolds that are normally connected by a short length of hose provide the vacuum. Not sure why that didn't work on a T140 but it was perfect on the Norton.
@@markhoyer1736 maybe i'll try it again
We were talking torque
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Dittos!
Most interesting but never used tool: Whitworth thread gage.
Mark, I’ll give it to you, how can I contact you?
Mark, do you want it? I’ll give it to you. I’m 77yo, and whoever ends up with my tools probably wouldn’t have a clue what it is.
You can contact editorial at intake@cycleworld.com and Mark will get the message. Thanks for watching!
Can't see past Tash
Missed it when it was gone
As a life long mechanic/technician, that hour and 16 minute video felt more like 12.
I own many tools that have never seen the light of day and others that look like they have been eroded by the waters of the Colorado and the winds of the Sahara.
I find a sense of comfort by going through my boxes and remembering vividly when, where, why & how they were acquired.
Why do I know exactly what they are talking about??? Maybe because I am 75 and did those things but I really wish I knew then what I know now, it would stopped a lot of wailing, renting of garment and pulling of hair.😊 trouble is I am now too old to use the knowledge I have nowadays 😢
"John Jacobson was responsible for the Yamaha yellow and black paint scheme" - WTAF??? I want to hear the story behind THAT!
I'm not one for branded stuff, so a friend gave me some Yamalube tire lube in a spray can as kind of a joke, and that's turned out to be "teh f*ckin sh*t" - the spray can has control, and the stuff doesn't evaporate in a 115F Florida garage.
That is my tire-mounting lube of choice here at the Cycle World shop!
I like Solder Suckers much better than Wick.
Way cool 🧢
How timely. I've been machining for 42 years now. I was out for a few months last year, and someone used my MATCO or Craftsman 32 oz ball pein when I was out, and broke the handle on the oldest tool in my toolbox. They bought me a new Proto, but it just isn't the same. But speaking of the old days, I had Jack McCornack as a motorcycle mechanics ROP instructor. My buddy ended up with an A7R from him, with the closest ratio, super tall first gear engine that I had ever seen. I ended up with an S3 Kawasaki, that had ama tech Inspection stickers all over it. He said it got 3rd at Daytona in 400 production. The stock pipes that been cut apart and reshaped inside, and was the fastest 400 I'd ever seen. Our buddy had an H2, brand new purple one, 75 I believe, and McCornack had that guy get his 750 out and they punched off on a road down below Seaside High School, and that 400 wheelied away from him with McCornack riding it.
I stand head and shoulders above my peers, because I am standing on all the broken parts and tools Ive destroyed over the years,” I think Erv Kanemoto said that.