{"id":71725,"date":"2012-03-10T20:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T11:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=71725"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:33","slug":"xr250baja-little-by-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20120310\/everyday-events\/xr250baja-little-by-little","title":{"rendered":"XR250 Baja: Little by Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Bax&#8217;s Baja.<br \/>\nThe threads on the right step were shot,<br \/>\nand he&#8217;d been asking for a helicoil insert for quite a while now.<br \/>\nToday it was raining, so all appointments got canceled and I was organizing tools and killing time. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63155088_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>A box of useless Snap-on helicoils turned out to be handy,<br \/>\nand while I was at it\u2026 <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63155088_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>he had front and rear sprockets with him, so I swapped those out. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63155088_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The bearings at 40,000 kilometers were cleaner than expected inside, but their action wasn&#8217;t quite perfect. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63155088_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Newtech Bamboo\u2014and an oil change while we were at it.<br \/>\nPlus he wanted the gasket on the secondary air outlet replaced.<br \/>\nTight\u2026 really tight\u2026 but my fingers are surprisingly thin, so I managed to squeeze through.<br \/>\nIf this had been tomorrow or later, there&#8217;s no way I&#8217;d have had time for all this. \u2605 You got lucky, buddy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Bax&#8217;s Baja. The threads on the right step were shot, and he&#8217;d been asking for a helicoil insert for quite a while now. Today it was raining, so all appointments got canceled and I was organizing tools and killing time. &nbsp; &nbsp;A box of useless Snap-on helicoils turned out to be handy, and while I was at it\u2026 &nbsp; &nbsp;he had front and rear sprockets with him, so I swapped those out. &nbsp; &nbsp;The bearings at 40,000 kilometers were cleaner than expected inside, but their action wasn&#8217;t quite perfect. &nbsp; &nbsp;Newtech Bamboo\u2014and an oil change while we were at it. Plus he wanted the gasket on the secondary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-71725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}