Thread: Project Special K

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Thanks Don.
I better tell yah why I picked Project Special K as a title. It is a bit of a joke from the 80's when I worked in the Florida Keys at Sea Camp. We had a guy we worked with who just didn't seem to have a clue. At the time there were three guys with his first name so we came up with initial nicknames like PB, PD and PK. Well PK secretly became Special K due to repeated acts of stupidity. (We were all imature and sarcastic then, much better now )

Thus Project Special K is in honor of PK and any stupid acts on my part here foward!
So have at it!

Happy Veteren's Day. Woke up to three WW2 fighters buzzing the back yard, pretty cool!
Started to reassemble new disc brake assembly yesterday. Bad luck, the bearing adapters were missing from the Classic Performance Products kit. Have to wait until monday to talk to someone about it. The good news was I didn't have to relocate my zerk fittings on the king pins, as they are angled back away from the new rotors. Here are few pictures of the spindle and my faithfull assistant Pretzel. He pumps the brakes, while I bleed the lines!

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I called Classic Performance Parts yesterday about the missing bearing adapters for the F1 disc brake conversion. They responded with, if you didn't notice the parts were missing within ten days of reciept of the package, then we aren't responsible and you'll have to buy new ones. Well considering I bought the truck from Mel 2 months ago, and he bought the conversion kit at a swap meet three years or so ago, I think we missed the deadline.
The parts are $15 a piece so I wasn't too riled. It seems customer service really varies between companies.
I'd like to put a positive plug out there for Mikuni Carbs. About three years ago my Harley started peeing gas when ever the fuel stop cock was open. I had the carb rebuilt and the mechanic said it never leaked bench testing it, but it would immediately pour gas out when reconnected to the bike. We were all at a loss, so I called Mikuni who asked me to send them the carb. They went over it with a microscope and rebuilt it again for free(this was a four year old carb at the time). Under the scope they found glass beads which were causing the float to stick open. The guy at Mikuni said, you'd litteraly not have seen it with out a microscope. It turned out the liner in my gas tank was wearing out, releasing glass beads from tight seems that traped them, when it was customed painted. Mikuni stands by their products and has service second to no other company I have dealt with. If you guys have had any similar experiences I'd like to know and support companies that stand behind their products.