Even more GPZ expenses

Once again, I should have known something like this would happen.

I went over to Erik's earlier this week figuring since he had an air compressor that I could quickly and easily change the clutch basket on my Kawasaki. I took the right side fairing off (easy), removed the clutch cover (easy), and took out the clutch springs and pressure plate (again easy). The basket was wobbly (should be pretty much solid) and had contact marks on the outer edge of the basket fingers from the back side of the crankshaft counter-balancer automatic chain adjuster (did you get all of that?). No wonder it was so noisy. Good thing I had those nearly new parts. I started to take the friction discs and steel plates out and noticed that the outer tabs of the friction discs had considerable wear on them. I guess it had been longer than I remembered since I had inspected the clutch parts. So, now that's all going to be on hold again until I decide that I just need to spend the $75-$85 or so for new discs and springs. I can just clean up the steel plates and reuse them. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot. Even if the clutch discs were fine, I couldn't have finished the job because Erik didn't have the 30mm 1/2-inch drive impact socket that I needed, that for some reason I just knew that he would have (I have one in my tool box in storage. Doesn't everybody have one?). It's taking me a while to get used to not working on my bikes in a pro shop setting with all of the tools and supplies I need nearby. I don't like it.