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New Chain and Sprockets for Me -- the Street Triple called, Bird

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An air gun is the easiest way to get the nut off the front sprocket. Jack will use a torque wrench to tighten  the new one on. The transmission should be in  neutral and the chain must be in place so you can stop the sprocket and nut from spinning by holding the rear wheel. A little grinding on the rivets to remove the heads  so they can be pushed out. Then push them out with the chain tool. Now the old chain is ready to come off. One nut for the rear fender and another for the wheel. This kit contains everything I need -- except for tools and someone to work them. The rear sprocket seems to wear more than the other parts. Jack changes the drive chain and sprockets every 20,000 miles. This is replacement number two for me as I just crossed 40,000 miles. Use a torque wrench on all nuts. The same tool used to push the old master link pins out is used to peen the new master link pins in. All

A Street Triple's Sermon About Jonah The Preacher

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Jonah was a good guy. He was a good Jew. He loved God, he loved his country, he loved his people, and he loved the heritage he shared as a son of Israel. Jonah was a good guy and God noticed him. God decided, as God is known to do, that Jonah would go to the city-state of Nineveh and preach to them a message of repentance from their sinning ways. "Arise, go to Nineveh that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." Jonah 1:2. Now a big part of the Jewish heritage that Jonah loved so much is found in war. From the day the Israelites followed Moses out of Egypt until this moment in Jonah's life, war had been a major player in Jewish history. Their enemies had been numerous and fierce. Their many wars had been brutal and costly. As far as the Hebrews were concerned, their enemies were also the enemies of God. They were horrible enemies. One of those horrible enemies was Nineveh. God's command to Jonah was brief, but Jonah

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And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue. And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend. And they made upon hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen. And he made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates; A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses. Exodus 39:22-26 On steam ships the engineering department is called the Black Gang. Among the Black Gang there is a saying that goes like this: "If you sweat the small stuff, the big stuff will take care of itself." The idea is that it is the details that matter because if all the details are right, all of the bigger scheme -- that is made up of uncountable details -- will be right. The verses of Scripture above com