Monday, September 9, 2013

How soon we forget. Of course, part of it is that I'm working on four bikes, all different.

This work was done on September 5, 2013. Something happened to the post, it got frozen and wouldn't update.

It's only been a year since I changed the oil and filter. I could find the oil drain plug fine. But, I had to look in the book to find the damn filter location. And, as is often the case in the books they show you a picture, they don't show you if it's front or back, left or right side. Thankfully it's an external spin off filter.

 The oil and oil filter got changed. I came up a little short on the oil. The book says 3.3 quarts I had a solid 3 quarts on hand and about 6 ounces of MMO (Magical Mystery Oil) which many people swear by. Although, when I got out on the road riding hard it seemed like things were a little noisy. I stopped and got a quart of oil and added about a half quart which may have been a little too much. The bike seemed to quiet down a bit.

I changed the final drive oil with 80W90. Although, the book calls for 80W, I couldn't find any 80W.

Both front and rear brake fluid were changed.

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