how to change fork oil seals the cheap way

To do a proper fork oil seal change you must have special gadgets like clamps, oil seal strikers, etc. 

Since I have been changing lots of fork oil seals for my "for sale bikes" and especially with my trials and off-road bikes, maybe this will be of help to you. 

small tips on engine cooling system

You can use a normal water hose if your radiator hose blows up. Your bike/car will take you home but please get a new hose asap.

If you have a stucked thermostat, you might engounter engine over heating. Remove the thermostat and add water. Pump the lower hose to get unwanted air out of the water line. It will get you home again but please get a new thermostat asap. 

funky tools

These are some tools that I made or crafted/bent/ground... nothing fancy but they did the job well.
from the top: is for popping lock doors, extra hard crank pulley holder, Honda Integra engine pulley holder, chain pulley holder, bent spanners, scrapers and mini knives, tubeless tire puncture repair needle, lock picks, extended screw driver, hose remover, etc. I still have more and will try to add photos if I can still find where I tossed them :)

portable vise

my homemade pulley holder in action

my homemade hose remover tool in action

I couldn't have done removing pulleys without my homemade tools. Now all I a had to do was to assemble all these parts to be home in time to cook my vegetable for dinner :)

how to use carburator cleaner and engine conditioner for cars and bikes

my 10 yr. old son doing a scooter's carburetor overhaul

Using the carb cleaner has pros and cons. The good thing about carb cleaner spray is that it will clean the unwanted deposits (carbon build up and sludges). Doing a full carburator overhaul is the best thing to do but if you want to clean the valves a bit, engine conditioner and carb cleaner is for you. Remember that these chemicals will damage palstic and rubber parts so be very carefull when you use them. If you are working on a carburator or EFI, it is best to put a rag under the carb/EFI and be carefull not to drip these chemicals especially on electronic parts. Dont get too paranoid because they wont give damage to plastic and rubber parts that easily. 

How to make plastic shine again

My son bringing back some sexiness to this old scoot. 

Notice the shiny rear fender and compare it to the step.

How to reuse a used brass/copper washers for pipe fittings

My son is annealing a copper washer while heating the tip of a spark plug... trying to hit two birds with one stone???
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Easy tire change for tubeless tires

Some rims have deeper beads to stop the air from leaking and to prevent the tire from rolling over and getting thrown out of the rim's bead. My rear tire is tubeless (for competition use only) and we only inflate it up to 0.3kgs and that is like running on a flat tire. Imagine how deep the beads are and how tough the tire is which makes it very tough to install. Most brand new tubeless off-road competition tires are difficult to install.

Spongy feel brake/clutch

Giving my bike's clutch lever some karate chops...

This is based on my experience again... My bike is fitted with very powerful brakes and a very soft clutch. We use only one finger on the levers BUT before I have experienced that my brakes was not working properly and it wont do a full lock and I have to pump the lever with 2 fingers to make the brakes lock. The master, hose, calipper/ clutch master, hose, clutch slave cylinder has no air inside and was bled well but my brakes and clutch levers are still stiff. I tried every technical thing that I can think of and even bought all the brakes and clutches inner rubbers and was about to do a full replacement(o/h) but an International A rider stopped me and told me that he'll try to repair the problem. All the kid did was to do quick karate chops ( about 80 to 100 times per lever) and after that my bike was ready to rock. His style was akward but it worked. He told me that since we dont use our bikes everyday, the master cylinder's rubber often gets stucked and cannot do full strokes. It is like pumping tire air pump doing small strokes. If you do a full pump stoke on a tire air pump, more air will be delivered...

Tips on clutch disc replacement

Every time I replace my clutch discs (paper and cork discs) I put the new discs inside a pan and cover them with gear box oil and do the replacement the following day. I have experienced that since we use a lot of hanging clutch technique and do high revs then slam the clutch to jump, if the disc is new and dry the disc will soon get worn out easily. Cars gear box disc are dry but bikes gearbox disc are bathed in oil. I don't know if this is proper but most racers do this technique and it works well for us. I think it will work also so everyone.

fork mis-alignment

This old Yamaha WR first came to me with a misaligned fork. The Old owner had a nose dive from a double jump and thought that the fork was totally damaged but all it needed was some adjustments. After some TLC, I had tons of fun riding it. 

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