Veronica's down. My bike. And things aren't looking good. My analysis is a stuck/jammed valve, which probably heralds a bad valve guide and a bent push-rod. All critical, all expensive. And if anything broke loose, any smallest part wound up down in the firing chamber, it's fatal. I'm a pretty fair wrench, but this is way outside my capabilities, both in time and skill. We'll see what the mechs downtown have to say sometime this week. Maybe. But I'm pretty sure I've killed her. I've seen it before.
I shouldn't feel like this over a bike, right?
Just…fuck. Y'know?
Gonna be a long summer.
In Our Next Episode: Working it out. It's just life.
YOU'VE killed her? Whence the guilt and self-blame? You turned the throttle. You didn't over-torque a tappet or what have you.
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