Other The What is your biggest Rookie move on a build.

[Idok]

Seen this one too:

Installing a yamaha flywheel and making sure its nice and tight only to realize the bendix is still sitting on the bench.

oh ....lol....sooo many times!

 

[Matt_E]

Seen this one too:

Installing a yamaha flywheel and making sure its nice and tight only to realize the bendix is still sitting on the bench.

I've done that so many times.

 

[N3vrSat1sfied]

Seen this one too:

Installing a yamaha flywheel and making sure its nice and tight only to realize the bendix is still sitting on the bench.

It would be so nice if the bendix could just wiggle around and go in afterwards!

 

[Lucaumpits]

that is personal...lol

we dont talk about that anymore

 

[SXR-FOREVER]

I didn't tape off where the screws sit when I painted my motor...paint crumbled...screws backed out...stator cover popped off at full speed...bye bye bendix, stator, and brand new jetinetics flywheel.

 

[227]

Seen this one too:

Installing a yamaha flywheel and making sure its nice and tight only to realize the bendix is still sitting on the bench.

HA HA! Guity! I've done that before

 

[tipafew]

HA HA! Guity! I've done that before

Me too

 

[Matt_E]

Pathetic nooblets.

 

[gto0209]

I have forgotten the gas cap off, but on a tether, ended up with ski and turf covered in oil/gas after a trip down the interstate.

 

[Tyler Zane]

First time I rebuilt my SJ motor I installed the rear crank seal backwards, thinking the three little tabs were spacers, I installed them facing the inner seal. After like 2 rides, the seal poped out of the cases but the motor still ran fine. I called Art from Jetworks baffeled as to what happened and he nailed the problem right off and informed me of the correct installation. Of course I had to do a whole tear down to fix it.

i have done the same thing word for word.

 

[OCD Solutions]

I am surprised no one has mentioned hooking up the carb lines backwards. Return to pulse and pulse to return and such. I know I did it at least once.

 

[Tyler Zane]

ill second the colored fuel lines, i replaced mine after only a years ues. they where very hard and dark, leaving deposits in my fuel filter.

 

[Idok]

i have done the same thing word for word.

FYI....you can actually pop the outer seal back in without taking the engine apart....




learned that lesson the hard way too...now its a mantra...titsout!

 

[sxi steve]

Building a Kawi instead of a Yami.

LOL. Look below...

 

[raytherace]

Buying a Sxr and then spending countless years trying to make it a capable freestyle ski.............

Joining the x and realizing that I just wasted 3 years of my life . Fml

hahahaha

 

[onedumbtrucker]

When I was a teenager we had a 300SX, completely stock (no electric bilge). It got a little filled with water doing subs and whatnot, I came into the beach as it was my 180lb fathers turn to ride. He said we should drain it and I said he could just ride it and the (stock) bilge would drain the water. Well he managed to get it up to a whopping 5km/h or so and dumped it on the intake side.

We drained it after that and it ran for a whole 5 minutes before burning the shiite out of the lower rod bearing.

 

[Snivilous]

When I was a teenager we had a 300SX, completely stock (no electric bilge). It got a little filled with water doing subs and whatnot, I came into the beach as it was my 180lb fathers turn to ride. He said we should drain it and I said he could just ride it and the (stock) bilge would drain the water. Well he managed to get it up to a whopping 5km/h or so and dumped it on the intake side.

We drained it after that and it ran for a whole 5 minutes before burning the shiite out of the lower rod bearing.

Before I put an electric bilge in my 650 about 4 months ago, I was doing subs and would get about 3 gallons (literally) of water in off of one sub. I couldn't get on plane or anything. It didn't screw up the ski, I just had to go and tip it over upside down like a retard on the beach every time lol.

 

[KR]

Seen this one too:

Installing a yamaha flywheel and making sure its nice and tight only to realize the bendix is still sitting on the bench.

Such a funny post!!!!

I've installed it without the bendix more times then I have with it. Every time it happens, I step out of the garage for an hour to cool off.

 

[Freakrider]

I once did a stator ohm check and the numbers looked in spec, changed a voltage regulator thinking that's why my battery would not charge. Put it all back together only to later find out that the lightning coil wires would ohm 1.4 until you wiggle the wires(then the numbers would be all over the place)...always check the wires also when doing ohm checks ! rookie mistake !

hope this helps someone some day.

 

[509freerider]

I once did a stator ohm check and the numbers looked in spec, changed a voltage regulator thinking that's why my battery would not charge. Put it all back together only to later find out that the lightning coil wires would ohm 1.4 until you wiggle the wires...always check the wires also when doing ohm checks ! rookie mistake !

I did the same thing, spent almost 2 weeks trying to find the issue!