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I'll put the bash plate and other shit back on tomorrow

look the lil shitbox himalayan made it to a gravel lot on its own power!
captioned with Dark Souls 3 font "CLUTCH REPLACED"

Ayyy, new clutch plates just came. Tossed em in a thing of oil to soak until I get off work.

I was going to chalk it up to the news' target demographic (fearful boomers) but even my dad got caught street racing in the 70s Then again, it could be intentional? I can see someone clutch pearls over the description of a burnout vs being mildly annoyed if you just said people are doing burnouts

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My taste is all over the place so it was brutal narrowing things down. Kinda went for albums I listen to front to back repeatedly across different genres (or in the case of FLCL and the pillows, what altered my brain chemistry)

My 9 Albums:
No Gods / No Managers by Choking Victim
Let's Face it by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Necronomidonkeykongimicon by Goblin Cock
Волшебство by Даша и Серёжа
Modal Soul by Nujabes
FLCL OST No.3 by the pillows
No Help for the Mighty Ones by SubRosa
Crystal Castles self titled
I Want to Die in New Orleans by $uicideboy$

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That's lame, but I will absolutely take Perfume as a runner up. The amount of times I've played ~Complete Best~ in the dark room is embarrassing.

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Cookin with gas, I'm reading and writing to registers. Also a bit too dumb this late at night to stumble my way into doing anything useful because that would require math and it's mushy smooth brain time.

$Someone is going to criticize the code here, but it's just me trial and erroring my way into making my own library for an ambient light meter IC. The screenshot shows: print(f"Device ID Register Value: {bin(this_opt4001.device_id)}") print(f"Default Config Mode:") print(f"{this_opt4001.orig_config.to_bytes(2)}") print(f"New Config Mode:") print(f"{this_opt4001.new_config.to_bytes(2)}") CircuitPython REPL soft reboot code.py output: Device ID Register Value: 0b100100001 Default Config Mode: b'\x00\x03' New Config Mode: b'\x00\x01'$

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Sitting in a meeting, "If you use Arch please...consider...using a normal distro like Ubuntu. *ahem* <my name>."

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Pooooossibly. I'm having to bit shift and pad the values because I'm trying to pull smaller fields out of the 16-bit registers

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Well, I’ve gotten the i2c comms to work but I’m either reading or buffering the registers incorrectly

An adafruit feather rp2350 and a breadboard sitting on an antistatic bag. A bunch of jumper wires snake between them

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Why would you care about reliable network communication if you already do not give one shit about reliable output

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Went back to DIY light meter since I’m waiting on clutch plates. These lil baby SOT583 breakout boards came a week or so ago. Waaay easier to bust out the SMD rework station than trying to directly solder wires to the pins

A 2mm by 1mm light meter IC on a lil baby breakout board.

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Wheel bearing eating shit maybe?

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I think I'll try patching qemu to use fake hardware names first. If memory serves, Looking Glass ran a bit shitty without those drivers.

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Hm, wonder what Ace Combat's EAC is fingerprinting on my VM. VirtIO drivers, maybe?

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I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, WE'RE ALL DUDES, HEY!

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It makes sense the more I think about it, they survive bathing in a nonpolar solvent. At least I get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. Man, I still consider automatics to be sorcery due to the sheer number of parts. A buddy is about to rebuild one off an F150 and he’s like “its really simple”

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In better news, the new Goblin Cock LP showed up a full week before the release date

A purple/pink record on a player, side A of Traumanaut by Goblin Cock

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L m a o Ordered a new set of plates and for shiggles I put one of the burnt out friction plates in water. Poked one of the pads after 10 minutes and it just poofed into haze. So root cause has been found

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Popped the sides of the crank case back off and pulled the clutch again and the friction plates are… dissolving? Were their binders fucking water soluble????? All I did when i first pulled them off was wipe them down and then soak them in new oil, and the housing already looks like before

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And were back. Color me shocked that one dude actually stopped to ask if Im aight out of the dozen cars that passed. My neck of the woods is filled with yuppies now

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Okay, finished getting the bike back together and went to just get gas down the road. Clutch gave out again. So far pushed the bike halfway home uphill. Christ, it’s a good thing i quit smoking when I turned 30

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Wanted to make sure it even runs before I hook the throttle back up and actually mount the tank

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Obviously a true stoic wouldn't let this bother them

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I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by the drawings or the fact you traced the diagram from a 50 year old manual. Either way, it's art.

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I have once again gotten all the CPE credits I need to renew my CISSP by popping shells on HTB as penance for having that fucking cert

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Definitely gotta use some magic pixies for heating some gloves before the temps start dropping

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If I remember the numbers, the Himalayan 411 makes like 220ish watts at idle and about half of that is used, so the other half is just dumped to ground which feels.. real bad. And I threw carb on this so whatever power would've been allocated to the fuel pump and injectors is also being wasted.

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Hell yeah it is. Everybody bitches on forums that the OEM regulator burns out the stator, so why not solve that problem with ebay and $25

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That series regulator/rectifier ratfucked off a seadoo is the same bolt pattern as the cheapo shunt R/R, but it’s a wee bit longer. Made an ugly bracket with random aluminum stock to rotate it and it clears the starter and carb fine. Need to paint it and grab a shorter bolt though

The aforementioned new to me regulator/rectifier almost free floating between all the other engine components

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Well, I am not good enough to braze aluminum. Now to find another way to fab a bracket with random bullshit in the garage

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Yeah it'll click eventually and you'll do it without thinking. The downside is, until it does, you get to experience fun things like stalling at a red light at the top of a hill because you're stressed about not rolling back and now everyone has missed the light.

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Even in shitty stop and go traffic, it gives you something to do. Bumper to bumper traffic becomes a grueling minigame which is far more tolerable than passively feeling stuck.

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Got the head back on and valves set. Clutch is back in, which was a handful even with stopping to fab a tool to help, but it wooorks! And it’s super smooth! Now I just need to put the left side of the crank case back on and put the rest of the bike back together

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Just a casual reminder that I flushed the oil thrice before my friends picked me and the bike up lmao

An oil drain on with a creamy caramel liquid

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Got the cylinder head off, valves and seals are good. The sleeve and piston head look fine, so I think we’re all good besides.. cleaning the rest of the gross out. Currently flushing all the choccy milk out of the oil cooler

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Just saw a zombie velociraptor in someone’s yard and that’s gotta be the fuckin coolest Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen

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Lol, thank you If you were curious, a shunt regulator takes whatever excess power that’s not needed by the battery, lights, etc and sends it on a bypass to ground, always drawing a full load. A series regulator on the other hand uses switches to draw just what it needs. Less strain on the stator.

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I had already fixed the gear position sensor’s parasitic drain but there’s one more part to the wiring I need to fix up while I’m here. The stators on these are prone to burning out and they have oldschool shunt regulator/rectifiers. Found a series RR off a seadoo for $25 and that should help it

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Since I’m stripping the bike and cleaning everything, took the opportunity to up the size of the main and pilot jets. It was still running lean with the fuel screw 2.75 turns out and 1mm of shim on the needle. I also pulled the exhaust apart and cleaned all the rust off the outside and flanges

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The clutch basically being jammed out of battery kept it disengaged. The plates are fine though, just some slight marring inside the bell housing from it popping to the side slightly And all this schmoo certainly didn’t help lmao. Plates are cleaned up and soaking in oil till I throw em back in

The inside of the clutch bell housing coated with the most viscous black goo that took way too much degreaser to clean out.

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So the inner plate that holds all the clutch plates and has the studs, that the springs slide over, that threads into the pressure plate has a lot of tolerance. Pretty sure the crank case pressure from a quarter mile of flooded road let it spin a few degrees indepently of the clutch bell housing.

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Both sides of the crank case are off and everything inside is fine, just coated in gross watery oil. The stage 2 cam from hitchcocks has 1k miles on it and looks good, the valves don’t have any uneven wear from it either. The clutch uhh, well its good but I understand why it jammed

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I’ve become rather proficient at working on the Himalayan and I don’t know if that’s a good thing lmao Good news is, so far, there’s no real damage from Tuesday’s blind corner oopsie into a flash flooded road. Still need to take the head off for peace of mind though

Look who’s back, it’s the Himalayan 411 but with the right side of the crank case half stripped and some disgusting watery brown oil underneath it

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Prints by the metre, good lord that’s so hilariously cool

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I was not ready for how big that printer is

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