It showered before I got it going today but wasn’t supposed to rain anymore until about five.
The fuel guy was coming to deliver some diesel for my heating stove and for tractors and such so I had to hang in close for when he came.
Dirt bike starting problem
So that gave me a good chance to have a look at the starting problem on the dirt bike. I push the starting button and most of the time nothing happens, the starter doesn’t turn over but sometimes it does.
I pulled the bike under the car port so I could work on it without being concerned about a stray shower.
I pulled the seat off by removing a couple bolts as that’s where the starter solenoid was located that I needed to have a look at. The black metal box there. I checked it out and it all worked fine and the bike was starting all the time now and working well, for some reason, as I didn’t fix anything.
As long as it was starting each time, there wasn’t anything I could do to solve the problem, but I had an idea of what the problem was now.
Air filter
And as long as I had the seat off, I could get access to the air cleaner so I cleaned that up which it needed, and put it back together.
Fuel delivery
About that time the fuel guy showed up. He lives just down the road from me so it’s a good time to shoot the bull and get caught up on small town stuff.
Looking up at the sky, the clouds were still holding off.
Headed for the hills
I put on my rain jacket, just in case and put a small hammer in the bikes basket to help determine the bikes starting problem and rode up into the hills to work on trails for a couple hours. I got a small short shower of hail while doing that where I had to get under a big tree.
When I was done working on trails, I walked back to the dirt bike as I was going for a ride.
Putting the hammer to good use
The start button didn’t work so I got the hammer out and hit the starter with said hammer while holding down the start button and it started right up.
The problem
This is a common problem with starters meaning the brushes are not making good contact as they may be worn out or the pressure spring may be weak or things might be corroded inside the starter, but it’s usually the brushes are worn out and not making good contact electrically.
Going for a ride
Once it was started I went for a ride around the property.
It seems more trees a have fallen down across the roads as this one stopped me and I had to turn around.
I rode to the top of the hill and turned the bike off for a bit and when I tried to start it again, I had to use the hammer again. So now I know what the problem is and will need to take the starter off and take it apart to see what the cause is.
Felt like rain
I rode around some more thinking it’s going to rain soon as that’s what it felt like.
I ran into another downed tree and had to turn around again, this time heading for home as I could tell there was at least going to be a good shower real soon.
And the sky looked like it was going to turn loose with some water real soon.
Tom and the Stump
As I was almost home I saw Tom with his tractor coming my way with something in the bucket.
He’d persisted and finally got that big stump dig out and was hauling it off to dump it.
I made it home but not before a shower hit of rain and hail and maybe a little snow mixed in too. Hail and snow are rare around here.
Just after I got home, the sky let loose with a lot of heavy rain that would of really got me wet.
I put the chickens away for the night and that was my day.
It does sound like a nice day. You weren’t bonked by a hailstone and made a successful diagnosis of the ignition problem. I am envious of the rain.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Love all your lush green. Maybe I’ve been in the desert too long. I had an old motorhome that required hammering the starter motor.
It does sound like a nice day. You weren’t bonked by a hailstone and made a successful diagnosis of the ignition problem. I am envious of the rain.