What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?

Freck

Freck

Legendary Knight
DD67 said:
An ex girlfriend of mines Dad killed a small child that ran out from behind an ice cream van.
The investigation proved his statement that the impact happened before he had time to hit the brakes.
Absolutely not his fault but it totally changed him forever.
Since then I always slow right down to no more than 20mph when passing a parked ice cream van, & I cover the brake.
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Same thing happened to my dad, many years ago.
The girls parents totally exhonorated him and he didn’t get prosecuted, but it really messed with his head and it took him a long time to get back in a car again. Nearly lost his job over it and it put a real strain on his marriage.
 
DD67

DD67

The Peace Keeper
Staff member
Freck said:
Same thing happened to my dad, many years ago.
The girls parents totally exhonorated him and he didn’t get prosecuted, but it really messed with his head and it took him a long time to get back in a car again. Nearly lost his job over it and it put a real strain on his marriage.
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What's your sisters name? 😳
 
BAD LUCK DUCK

BAD LUCK DUCK

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You will all be happy to know that earlier on today the mystery of the missing toilet roll was solved when I discovered a golf ball shaped object in my trollies after I accidentally almost castrated myself...its been a funny old day involving a French man a pint of theakstons somewhere i thought was the French embassy me getting onn my soap box giving a speech about all that is England and we didn't defeat the French at Agincourt to be served beer by a Frenchman on St George's day cos all the bloody English landlord's have turned into bloody Chinese communists...
Anyway I got a rousing reception from most English people and I hope I rekindled the flame of patriotism a little bit...
As for the women...Cor blimey...I don't think they ever met a real bloke before despite having kit kat issues and a wad of bog roll stuck up his arse...
AND THAT GENTLEMEN IS WHAT SEPERATES US FROM THE BLOODY HEATHENS...

HAPPY ST GEORGE'S DAY AND MAY ARE TRADITIONS AND CULTURE CONTINUE..

NEVER SURRENDER 🦆🦆🦆
 
DD67

DD67

The Peace Keeper
Staff member
BAD LUCK DUCK said:
You will all be happy to know that earlier on today the mystery of the missing toilet roll was solved when I discovered a golf ball shaped object in my trollies after I accidentally almost castrated myself...its been a funny old day involving a French man a pint of theakstons somewhere i thought was the French embassy me getting onn my soap box giving a speech about all that is England and we didn't defeat the French at Agincourt to be served beer by a Frenchman on St George's day cos all the bloody English landlord's have turned into bloody Chinese communists...
Anyway I got a rousing reception from most English people and I hope I rekindled the flame of patriotism a little bit...
As for the women...Cor blimey...I don't think they ever met a real bloke before despite having kit kat issues and a wad of bog roll stuck up his arse...
AND THAT GENTLEMEN IS WHAT SEPERATES US FROM THE BLOODY HEATHENS...

HAPPY ST GEORGE'S DAY AND MAY ARE TRADITIONS AND CULTURE CONTINUE..

NEVER SURRENDER 🦆🦆🦆
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You're not right in the head Duck.
But I still love you! 😍
(In a blokey, no tongues kinda way obviously)
 
Big Sandy

Big Sandy

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St George's day.

A celebration of a Greek (Maltese?) guy who killed a none-existant mythical beast. Okay, I'll go along with the principal.

However... Nobody celebrated the birthday of William Shakespeare, did they? He was real, and did wonders for English O level students. Ironically he also died on his birthday. So, not just English, and a writer, but he knew how to party!
 
BAD LUCK DUCK

BAD LUCK DUCK

Forum Duck
Big Sandy said:
St George's day.

A celebration of a Greek (Maltese?) guy who killed a none-existant mythical beast. Okay, I'll go along with the principal.

However... Nobody celebrated the birthday of William Shakespeare, did they? He was real, and did wonders for English O level students. Ironically he also died on his birthday. So, not just English, and a writer, but he knew how to party!
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Principles work for me..
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
Well my piss is being well and truly boiled today by a damned Triumph Sprint RS. I have dismantled my Black one and started work on 'restoring' the yellow one that I originally bought as an MOT failure (only failed on fractured rear discs, slightly weeping fork seals and worn chain). It is running but, from delivery it has backfired like a bugger whenever it's been run. Took the tank and airbox off and all the daft plastic hoses coming off the Idle air valve had come adrift as the rubber ends at the valve and at the vacuum ports on the cylinders had perished and I have no idea which ones were supposed to go where. Anyway I tried adding new rubber connectors (rubber hose) to the ends and re-attaching using the logic that the right hand port on the valve should go to the right hand cylinder, middle to middle and left to left. Put her together again and started her. The backfires are now gone but after opening the throttle she won't go back to idle and dies instead. Now there was a 'T'-piece on one of the lines from the idle valve and there is a similar corrugated hose coming from the ECM so, although the 'T'-piece on the bike had been plugged by someone I assumed that it was actually meant to connect to the ECM so I unblocked it and connected it and now she returns to idle but won't rev easily, stuttering and acting weird unless I wind the throttle very gently. Neither the Triumph Workshop manual or the Haynes manual even map out where these bloody hoses are meant to go properly.

I have to say that, having found Suzuki's genuine workshop manuals to be superb and comprehensive when I was a Suzuki buff the Triumph Workshop manuals I own for the Sprint, Bonneville and Daytona are shit and not worth how much you have to pay for them.
 
chas

chas

Legendary Knight
MartytheMartian said:
Well my piss is being well and truly boiled today by a damned Triumph Sprint RS. I have dismantled my Black one and started work on 'restoring' the yellow one that I originally bought as an MOT failure (only failed on fractured rear discs, slightly weeping fork seals and worn chain). It is running but, from delivery it has backfired like a bugger whenever it's been run. Took the tank and airbox off and all the daft plastic hoses coming off the Idle air valve had come adrift as the rubber ends at the valve and at the vacuum ports on the cylinders had perished and I have no idea which ones were supposed to go where. Anyway I tried adding new rubber connectors (rubber hose) to the ends and re-attaching using the logic that the right hand port on the valve should go to the right hand cylinder, middle to middle and left to left. Put her together again and started her. The backfires are now gone but after opening the throttle she won't go back to idle and dies instead. Now there was a 'T'-piece on one of the lines from the idle valve and there is a similar corrugated hose coming from the ECM so, although the 'T'-piece on the bike had been plugged by someone I assumed that it was actually meant to connect to the ECM so I unblocked it and connected it and now she returns to idle but won't rev easily, stuttering and acting weird unless I wind the throttle very gently. Neither the Triumph Workshop manual or the Haynes manual even map out where these bloody hoses are meant to go properly.

I have to say that, having found Suzuki's genuine workshop manuals to be superb and comprehensive when I was a Suzuki buff the Triumph Workshop manuals I own for the Sprint, Bonneville and Daytona are shit and not worth how much you have to pay for them.
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Only Duck has a 'reference' Sprint of similar age AFAIK now Billy has flogged his.



So that's no help :D
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
Oh I will figure it out, eventually. At the moment I am thinking that, basically the Idle air control valve allows air to enter the cylinders via the vacuum ports in order to allow the engine to idle while the throttles are closed and then, when the throttles open the vacuum at the ports drops and this is read by the hose going to the ECM which then closes the Idle valve and should re-open it when the throttles close. I am wondering if the problem is that someone has mucked around with the ECM and, in particular, the Throttle Position sensor because the hose circuit was screwed.
 
BAD LUCK DUCK

BAD LUCK DUCK

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MartytheMartian said:
Oh I will figure it out, eventually. At the moment I am thinking that, basically the Idle air control valve allows air to enter the cylinders via the vacuum ports in order to allow the engine to idle while the throttles are closed and then, when the throttles open the vacuum at the ports drops and this is read by the hose going to the ECM which then closes the Idle valve and should re-open it when the throttles close. I am wondering if the problem is that someone has mucked around with the ECM and, in particular, the Throttle Position sensor because the hose circuit was screwed.
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I found in order to stop mine cutting out at idle I had to manually adjust the TPS by a gnats knacker and that done the trick...
Although the bloody thing is playing up again now...Triumph in my opinion is seriously overated...
 
MartytheMartian

MartytheMartian

Legendary Knight
I plugged it into my laptop a wee while ago and, according to TuneECU, the injector on cylinder number 3 is duff. I did suspect that she wasn't always firing on all cylinders. Not going to do anymore today but I will swap the injector rail with the one off my dismantled Sprint tomorrow or Monday and see what happens.

Part of the problem with thinking about these bikes is that, in my mind I think they are just from 2002 when that is almost twenty years ago. When I was a youngster and biking I was grumpy about having to fix things on my Suzuki's and Honda's that were only ten years old. You would think though that, by the 21st century they would have found something for things like hose connections that doesn't degrade the way that rubber does.
 
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