Max’s Handy Tip #2

Handy Hints- The Occy Strap Trick
So we were like at the Phillip Island National Rally and Rob Bollo was all sulky and moaning “awww, I think I done my crank” and we were like “c’mon mate have you checked your stator” and he was all “nah it’s my crank” and we were so “don’t be a drongo, check your stator”.

Bogwoppit threading the strap through the Flywheel fins whilst wearing a jacket that he hasn’t removed since 1984.

So first order of business was for the boys to go to the bottlo and get a slab, while I rustled up some tools from Marty the Vic Rep, then we met back at Bollo’s digs.

So there we were, about ten of us all up, I reckon, most just drinking and taking the mickey as you do. Fark, talk about pissing about, took ‘em ages to get the rear runner and flywheel cover off, then we realized we didn’t have a socket and ratchet to fit inside the flywheel holder tool, we was truly buggered.

Here’s one we prepared earlier.

Then, get this, then Mark, yeah Marky Mark, Mandy Mark Dearman, the biggest plonker of them all, goes like “ have you tried the bungee strap trick” (Occy Strap), bungee is what they call them in Pommyland, and we were like blown away that Mark, you know, came up with an idea, but what did we have to lose so we was like “go on then show us”
So there he was winding the Occy strap in and out of the fins on the flywheel, then he fastens the ends to the frame, takes up the tension in a clockwise way, puts on the spanner, gives it a whack, and hey fucken presto, it worked, I shit you not. I swear we were all like gob smacked. Then Jimbo dropped his pants, not for any reason mind, he just does that.

I’d recognise that arse anywhere………unfortunately.

Anyway, yep stator was loose as a goose, but we soon had Bollo rolling again.
Max