{"id":54,"date":"2008-04-03T23:26:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T03:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/04\/03\/a-wrench-report-of-little-consequence\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T14:04:24","slug":"a-wrench-report-of-little-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/04\/03\/a-wrench-report-of-little-consequence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wrench Report of Very Little Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I dealt with\u00c2\u00a0a minor problem with the Harley, one that had been bugging me for a month or so. When applying the rear brake the\u00c2\u00a0stop light wasn&#8217;t coming on as quickly as I would like.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking\u00c2\u00a0that it might have something to do with the master cylinder rebuild I did some months back. That wasn&#8217;t merely convenience, it was a necessity! The pliable parts of the piston had largely disintegrated leaving the rear brake\u00c2\u00a0absolutely useless. The switch is actuated by hydraulic pressure so perhaps a bit of debris had made its way down the line and into the switch.\u00c2\u00a0Odd, since\u00c2\u00a0I completely purged the\u00c2\u00a0circuit and bled it thoroughly\u00c2\u00a0as part of\u00c2\u00a0the rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed the trouble with the stop light during a pre-ride check so\u00c2\u00a0I bled the circuit again. The trouble cleared but soon returned. Another bleed, another temporary fix. This time when the trouble returned I did the electrical checks (all good) and\u00c2\u00a0gave in to replacing the switch.<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday was the day. Luckily the local dealer had one for me and lightened my wallet by a twenty. I considered myself fortunate; they usually don&#8217;t have whatever part I happen to be looking for. Since it was my first visit to the dealer since they\u00c2\u00a0stocked the 2008 models I couldn&#8217;t resist browsing just a little&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Back in the garage, it took about fifteen minutes to replace the switch (with a metric wrench, so much for American Iron, eh?) and bleed the circuit yet again. The stop light was back to functioning normally at the lightest pedal touch.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should have inspected the old switch to try to determine if it had any debris in it causing the trouble. But I just pitched it in the bin, grabbed a helmet, and went out for\u00c2\u00a0a test ride. Today they picked up the trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I dealt with\u00c2\u00a0a minor problem with the Harley, one that had been bugging me for a month or so. When applying the rear brake the\u00c2\u00a0stop light wasn&#8217;t coming on as quickly as I would like. I was thinking\u00c2\u00a0that it might have something to do with the master cylinder rebuild I did some months back. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/04\/03\/a-wrench-report-of-little-consequence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Wrench Report of Very Little Consequence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[103,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}