Perseverance pays.

[milleplod]

The clutch switch on my ST's been playing up for a while now - usual problem, sometimes the bike would start in gear with the clutch pulled in, sometimes it wouldn't. I'd squirted cleaner in there a while ago, and it sorted it for a while, but the issue soon returned.

So, today I set-to the job. Glasses perched on nose, tools at the ready....let battle commence. As I headed off to the garage, my Mrs shouted 'Just off to break something again?' Anyway, 1-minute job to undo the little grub screw that holds the switch in and get the switch out....2-minute job to fettle it with some contact cleaner, another couple of minutes to clean out the housing, which was full of black gunge....and then 45 b*****d minutes searching through the stones on the drive for that little bloody drawing-pin thing that I'd forgotten about, which fell out and bounced off my boot!!

Ah well, all back together, adjusted and working as intended!

Pete

[Grip Fast]

Excellent, and I know the feeling. I have a bag of 40 (now 39 - though I haven't counted them) ball bearings because I failed to find the original one that popped out when I took the footrests off for a clean.

[BoxerCup R]

Brilliant lads, just brilliant, reminds me of my fook-ups all good fun

[The Teutonic Tangerine]

I know what you man my old garage floor is full of cracks so when I had the Gearbox out of my ST to change it I put down Carpet and then an old furniture throw so anything that dropped wouldn't go down the cracks - worked a treat - never dropped a blo*dy thing

[BoxerCup R]

I know what you man my old garage floor is full of cracks so when I had the Gearbox out of my ST to change it I put down Carpet and then an old furniture throw so anything that dropped wouldn't go down the cracks - worked a treat - never dropped a blo*dy thing