First period, Auto Tech (3 hours of working on cars yay!!(Not sarcastic) ) And today is Friday so I get to bring my own vehicle in to work on it! So I bring the ol' spree on in for a professional level carb clean. It was a while since I had cleaned it so I was kind of rusty at the procedures. Took it apart, inspected every piece and made sure it was ok before using the chemical bath carb cleaner.
15 minutes later
I pull my carb pieces out of the bath and clean it up at the sink. Then off to the air pressure gun to clean out the passages. I'm giving it a good blow down when the o-ring, I forgot to take off the carb, comes off... people that know what carb cleaner does to rubber... ouch, its all deformed and stretched out beyond recognition. I manage to get it into the indent in the carb side that's made for it, but it fits like a square block in a circle hole.
I ask my teacher if he has any o-rings that may fit. Of course he has a bunch... all U.S. standard, not one would fit! And he informs me that I CANNOT take my scooter because he doesn't want to be responsible if it blows a hole in the piston. I beg and plead with him to let me take it so I can get to my other school (yes I go to 2 schools).He was determined to cripple me, he says I CANNOT have it back until I get a Honda spree specific o-ring to replace it. I get * and take the gasket (in between the carb and the intake manifold) to take with me to see if I can find a o-ring at the hardware store, so I don't have to wait till Monday to fix it. I bum a ride from one of the other kids to take me to my other school
At my other school.
I'm sitting frustrated that I don't have a ride home or a way to get to work or anything until Monday. At lunch I hit up the local hardware store and they only carry U.S. standard sizes too
. I come back for my after lunch hours and concoct a brilliant plan.... I decided that I would take the o-ring from the gasket I took to size it. tell my auto teacher that I went to Honda and they just happened to have the perfect size for an 18 year old scooter (my *) and I would make due with what I had and replace it later(I NEEDED to get to work). It was the perfect plan muahahha. I go back to the first school after my other school got out, talked with my teacher, he took one look at the o-ring and asked to see the gasket I took with me. He lined up the impressions of the gasket to the marks on the rubber, he was sooooooooo * that I tried to lie to him 
. I felt like a * as I walked over to look at my scooter and think of an excuse for work. When, as an act of god, the o-ring that had been malformed in the bath had shrunken back down to the original size!!!!! I showed my teacher!!! ... He asked to see my other o-ring... I guess he has a right to dought me... but he Okayed that the quality and size had been restored and let me go. I had a quick prayer to thank god for what had happened reassembled my bike and drove home. Whats the moral of the story? LIE CONSTANTLY, all your problems will work themselves out.
