Day 4....defined progress

Date 3/13/10
Miles 0
Ttl miles 10
Hrs working on bike 34

I write this after a Sam Adams and a fine Scotch tasting by the fire...so please excuse any misspellings of grammical issues as I am quite toted and mellow.

Today was spent gathering ordered parts from Sandia BMW (I will miss them) and reassembling Gretchen. The repaired speedo was installed sucessfully, though the true task of the day was the installation of the dreaded rear main seal, which required the employment of a drill, price of wood, metal screw, slide hammer, wire snips, buffer wheel mount, some plastic pipe, and a couple various sized hammers as I lacked the proper BMW install tool
the question still remains however, did it work? Every one of the three reference books I have, the two dealers I spoke with, and the several websites I consulted I never did get a definative answer as to the proper install method of the damn seal. In any case.....I went with a combination and hopefully it will work OK.
Once the seal was situated the clutch was installed, the transmission was remounted, the engine was reinstalled. I made a minor, yet stupid error tonight with a small part and said enough for today. Tomorrow the bike should be ready to ride, and if so we will be going to Madrid for a coffee.

I was given some Gonash today...chocolate coating for those who do not know.....an entire bowl of it and I was in heaven....shaking like a leaf as the gonash was served with a cappachino but still in sheer bliss. Dinner was the best mac and cheese ever, as it has smoked cheese. I cannot forget lunch though...we went to a restaurent called Los Cuatros, where I got a egg and potato burrito, refried beans, spectacular sopopeas and a HUGE GLASS of MILK!!!!! Oddly the waitress spent most of the meal talking about my non-meat diet. Very friendly girl, though most people here are very open and friendly

So yet for a fourth day my bike is in only a few pieces, yet life is good.....I unfortunatly see an end to my time with Cordell and his family and though life is still very good....like the chocolate cake covered in gonash in front of me....it is bittersweet.

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