Mentor Log- April 10, 2007 (8.5hrs.)

April 6, 2007
Went to hang out with Danny and helped him with his new bike.

I met again with my buddy/mentor Danny this past weekend. He just purchased a new bike, so we played with it a little. It's a late model Honda Shadow. We went and did a complete tune up on it. This was time consuming because of it being a tight area to work in. It was educational and pretty interesting as well. I'd say we probaly spent about 2.5 hrs. on this. So we poped open some drinks, and went to work. We started on the spark plugs first. Replaced them with Denso Tri Prong plugs. This makes a more hotter fire for the block, as aposed to the single prong plugs. I run Denso Quad Prongs in my 89 Toyota Supra. Next we replaced the spark plug wires. Since he really dosn't listen to his radio on the bike, we went ahead and ran all copper wires. This will deliver more horse power and quicker response to the wheels. The oil filter was next. Danny showed me a trick to this. Once you drain all of the old oil out of the system, grab your new filter, put some new oil on your finger tip and run it along the filter rim. This will give your oil filter a better seal.
The next three hours we worked on his 1994 ford Branco 4x4. He got some new toys to put on it and was eager to put them on. There was a new brush guard and KC high beam fog lights. He had a old bruch guard on it that was in horrible shape. We tryed taking it off the normal way with the nuts and bolts. This was not easy. The brush guard was welded on to the frame as well as the bolts. So we did as much as we could, then we got the cutting tourch out. Mmm...much fun! Ones it was off we started cleaning up the front end. Then we put the new chrome brush guard on. Pretty easy, but took a little bit of time. Then we drilled hole in the brush guard to mount the fog lights. This took like 2 seconds. He gave me the fun part. I had to run the wires to the ditribution box under the dash. After all of this hard work, it was time to play. We went out that night to a new subdivision and ran stuff over and spot light animals.