Blood, sweat, tears & beers . . .

Joshbob, put a heavy blanket and tarp over the bike in case the windows blow out of your workshop. Plywood would even be better, but I suppose it's too late for that. We're praying for you man.

Well this "Long Island Mountain" is about 60 ft above the seawater! LOL But yer right, we are surrounded by big oaks. We've had more than 600% of normal rain this summer (I wish i could send it your way) and we are counting on trees falling. Sleeping on the main floor, middle of house. Chainsaw is all sharpened and gassed. Tomorrow morning Irene comes a callin.

Irene's knocking on my door. Lost power at 450am. branches breaking off trees. Worst of storm still to come. :witsend:

Our power came on yesterday after 27 hours without. Boys, it rained 25 hours straight! Before the storm came, Mac the wife filled a bunch of containers with water and stuck 'em in the big freezer so we could have ice blocks in the fridge & ice box. We managed to save most of our food, though we weren't able to cook because our stove is electric. I'm going to get a Coleman camp stove for the next time this happens. Phone lines were out till just a while ago, so now we're back on line.
I read Fatboy's post "Irene" - hope you fared okay up there, brother! We're all okay here. There was some damage & flooding but we were fortunate it wasn't any worse, as you guys can see from the pics. Our neighbors on the coast didn't fare as well . . . BTW, The Beast is fine.

Glad you and Mac made out OK...NC had a lot of damage...

The first 4 pics are of our yard, and the rest are in Hobgood. We lost power twice last night but the power boys got it up and running. Mac took my chain saw into Tattoo's this morning for repair.

We were blessed, what can I say? There were people who were devastated on the coast. One old geezer was lamenting he'd lost everything after a lifetime of hard work - it was hard to watch.
Mac took the chainsaw to Tattoo's shop and she said he had work lined up all the way to the curb. He took the saw and fixed it right on the spot and wouldn't take Mac's money, either. Told her I'd given him a lot of bike parts. He thinks the reason my bike isn't starting is because of the carb. I "rebuilt" it a while back and neither one of us is confident I did it right. I need to have a professional look it over, so I'm going to find out if Ken would be interested in fixing it for me.

glad you guys came out ok. We don't get that kind of weather up here. Some blizzards maybe but we have a week's supply of non perishable food and have filled up the bathtub for drinking water just in case. more for a flu emergency like H1N1..I should look at a generator..got everything else.

Well, boys, back to motorcycle stuff . . . I took the air cleaner off this morning and squirted some starter fluid into the carb - not expecting anything. One kick and THE BEAST STARTED! It ran for a minute or two, ran pretty good - no misses - and then conked out. Couldn't get it going again. Came back a couple hours later and tried again and it wouldn't start. Gas came out the carb bowl drain hose - a lot of it. Puddle was a couple feet around. Cleaned it up and have fans blowing out the fumes and drying the floor. Guess I'm lucky the gas didn't explode while I was trying to start it. Let me tell ya, boys - the Beast roars, even at idle.
I think I can assume the timing is alright. Definitely getting spark to the plugs. It must be the carb. Sticking float maybe? When I tried kicking it the last couple times, gas started coming out the end of the carb, leaking onto the cone. Glad I caught it in time before it blew up on me!
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