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Rebuilds gone wrong
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[QUOTE="Ol'89r, post: 710796, member: 17212"] The infamous Tootsie Roll wrapper. Once upon a time, way back in 19, ahhhhhh, er, ahh, never mind. :eek: I was doing a rebuild on my dirttracker and had the bottom end done and back in the frame. It was late at night and I had a race the next day and all I had left to do was assemble the top end. My wife came out to the shop and said something like, " are you coming in tonight or what?" I said, just as soon as I get the bike together. She was eating one of those minature Tootsie Rolls at the time and as she turned around to go back in the house, she wadded up the wrapper and tossed it at me. As luck would have it, the wrapper bounced off of my forehead and went right down into the lower end of the engine. :scream: The engine was a 750cc Triumph twin with a big heavy flywheel. The Tootsie Roll wrapper went all the way down into the bottom end and stuck in the oil under the flywheel. Well, seeing as how Tootsie Roll wrappers are made of paper, I couldn't use a magnet to retreive it and there was not enough room to get any kind of device under the crank. Tried some air pressure and only succeded in blowing oil all over the frame and myself but, no Tootsie Roll wrapper. :( Wound up having to remove the engine cases from the frame and turning the engine upside down and flushing the wrapper out. My wife, seeing my displeasure, had long since gone in the house and went to bed. Finished the bike at about 0 two early in the morning and made the race the next day. We still chuckle about the infamous Tootsie Roll wrapper. :laugh: [/QUOTE]
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