Then there was the time I hooked the heater hose to the power brake booster
on my XK150......
Look, Ma! No Brakes!!
Jack
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bollen [SMTP:bollen@ibm.net]
> Sent: 24 July 1998 06:05
> To: triumphs
> Cc: DON BOYD, JOAN IKOMA
> Subject: Re: Stuck Valves/Disasters
>
>
> David Hill wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > If we're talking about doing things wrongly, I have a couple of stories
> > which are really cringeworthy.
> >
> > The first, which I offer as a kind of appetiser, is true. A motoring
> > jou.........
>
>
> Reminds me of when I owned a BSA Gold Star 500cc motorcycle. It had a
> very large downward sloping carb with a pretty big air horn. I asked the
> attendant to add a pint of oil while i took a leak, and came back to
> find he had poured it into the carb.
> That bike smoked for a week after that.
> Stu
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