Saturday, June 07, 2008
Did a few things today. Woke up at 7am with that weird dream, surfed a bit, stitched some alaska photos (Ooo!). Yesterday i was looking at both online and my service manual on how to do a valve check and adjustment, its a 16k mile interval task. At a bike shop, its the most costliest thing to do, its labor intensive (200+$) with a 85$ parts kit. i read up on how-to's and it doesn't seem that bad. So i need to collect the proper tools. Sears has a fathers day sale (isn't fathers day next week?) and the Mission Motorcycles has on the first saturday of the month a 15% off anything that fits a brown bag days (excellent timing). I think i'm going to do the valve check on the 36k, so i have a while to prepare.
So, went to:
-Mission Moto for oil, a light bulb that went out, and a K/N Cleaning kit.
-Darby Dan's 'cuz Fluffielady was feeling for a hoagie type dealie. Yea i haven't been there in ages! 6-8$ sandwiches. Pretty good, something different then the shack.
-Sears to pickup a 5$ toolbag and 8$ feeler gauge for the valve dealie.
-Target to get some 18-gal tubs, crap. Starting to pack crap up for 'future transitions'.
-Lowes for Paint stain, Spray Paints
-Visited Lullaby Lane, an overpriced wannabe megalomart for baby gear. It inhabits at least 4 or so buildings, and its growing.
-Got home..
The internet is so great for instructional stuff, i like howcast.com. I'm thinking of joining it and give up some firearms knowledge, but i dunno.. i'm shy..
This pictoral donation is aimed at Bri, since i couldn't get his bike warmed up for an oil change due to some unknown reason. Heres a how-to on motorcycle oil changing.
Moto Oil Change. Since my bike is a 99, parts are older, in different locations, etc. but the generalities are the same.
1. Get the tools needed.
For a '99 Suzuki GXSR-600 i needed:
1 4mm allen wrench
1 21mm socket
1 OEM Oil filter adapter
1 3/8" socket wrench
1 oil drain plug washer
1 oil pan
1 funnel
3 quarts of 10-40 blend oil
and the ultimate item: 1 flap of aluminum foil.
2. Warm up the bike, at least a few minutes, to get the oil flowing.
3. Remove the right side body panel (/w 4mm allen, but body panels differ), or whatever panels needed to access the oil filter. You can see the Oil filler plug as well as the oil filter on the pic below.
Oil Filler Plug and note the 2600ml, Some bikes have a notation, others dont. The service manual will always help.
4. Open the Oil Filler Plug, clean the plug with a shop towel and set aside.
Under the bike is the oil drain plug.
5. Mount 21mm socket onto wrench and loosen oil drain plug a little. Place oil pan under the plug, i had very little wiggle room. Loosen the plug all the way and drain oil into pan. I clean this bolt and set aside as well, toss out old washer / gasket. This plug has a magnetic plug which captures metal shavings. Captured metal shavings is good!
Oil Filter
6. Let drain for a little, then i place the ultimate piece of foil on the headers right under where the oil filter rests. You don't really need the foil, but the smell of burning oil isn't my thing. Move oil pan to where its positioned both under the drain as well as where the foil dripping leads to.
7. Unmount 21mm socket and mount oil filter wrench. Loosen the filter and remove.
8. Wait till theres no more or very little oil dripping and replace the washer onto oil drain plug. Put back in and i try not to tighten too much with the 21mm.
9. Open New oil, dip your finger and lube the rubber ring of the oil filter.
10. Replace oil filter and tighten with oil filter wrench.
11. Use funnel and put 2600ml into the system.
12. Close Oil filler plug
13. Turn moto on and pray. Run for a few minutes, turn off and let it sit for a few minutes.
14a. If the bike is on a stand, then you can look at the oil window if you need to add. Its better to have less than full then greater than full. But its not good to have less than less to where nothing shows up on the window!
14b. If the bike is not on the stand, well, stand the bike up and have someone look at the window for you, or use mirrors, etc.
15. Grab a tasty frosty beverage and relax, knowing you saved a bit and got your hands dirty in a good way. After you'll need to figure on where and how to dispose of the oil..
I continued to open up the front and finally clean my BMC air filter. Its just like a K/N with the exact red colorings. I bought the cleaning kit and followed the directions. Man there was abit of sand in there. Glad it wasn't in the engine!
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Now playing: Sungha Jung - Ombrellino
via FoxyTunes
So, went to:
-Mission Moto for oil, a light bulb that went out, and a K/N Cleaning kit.
-Darby Dan's 'cuz Fluffielady was feeling for a hoagie type dealie. Yea i haven't been there in ages! 6-8$ sandwiches. Pretty good, something different then the shack.
-Sears to pickup a 5$ toolbag and 8$ feeler gauge for the valve dealie.
-Target to get some 18-gal tubs, crap. Starting to pack crap up for 'future transitions'.
-Lowes for Paint stain, Spray Paints
-Visited Lullaby Lane, an overpriced wannabe megalomart for baby gear. It inhabits at least 4 or so buildings, and its growing.
-Got home..
The internet is so great for instructional stuff, i like howcast.com. I'm thinking of joining it and give up some firearms knowledge, but i dunno.. i'm shy..
This pictoral donation is aimed at Bri, since i couldn't get his bike warmed up for an oil change due to some unknown reason. Heres a how-to on motorcycle oil changing.
Moto Oil Change. Since my bike is a 99, parts are older, in different locations, etc. but the generalities are the same.
1. Get the tools needed.
For a '99 Suzuki GXSR-600 i needed:
1 4mm allen wrench
1 21mm socket
1 OEM Oil filter adapter
1 3/8" socket wrench
1 oil drain plug washer
1 oil pan
1 funnel
3 quarts of 10-40 blend oil
and the ultimate item: 1 flap of aluminum foil.
2. Warm up the bike, at least a few minutes, to get the oil flowing.
3. Remove the right side body panel (/w 4mm allen, but body panels differ), or whatever panels needed to access the oil filter. You can see the Oil filler plug as well as the oil filter on the pic below.
Oil Filler Plug and note the 2600ml, Some bikes have a notation, others dont. The service manual will always help.
4. Open the Oil Filler Plug, clean the plug with a shop towel and set aside.
Under the bike is the oil drain plug.
5. Mount 21mm socket onto wrench and loosen oil drain plug a little. Place oil pan under the plug, i had very little wiggle room. Loosen the plug all the way and drain oil into pan. I clean this bolt and set aside as well, toss out old washer / gasket. This plug has a magnetic plug which captures metal shavings. Captured metal shavings is good!
Oil Filter
6. Let drain for a little, then i place the ultimate piece of foil on the headers right under where the oil filter rests. You don't really need the foil, but the smell of burning oil isn't my thing. Move oil pan to where its positioned both under the drain as well as where the foil dripping leads to.
7. Unmount 21mm socket and mount oil filter wrench. Loosen the filter and remove.
8. Wait till theres no more or very little oil dripping and replace the washer onto oil drain plug. Put back in and i try not to tighten too much with the 21mm.
9. Open New oil, dip your finger and lube the rubber ring of the oil filter.
10. Replace oil filter and tighten with oil filter wrench.
11. Use funnel and put 2600ml into the system.
12. Close Oil filler plug
13. Turn moto on and pray. Run for a few minutes, turn off and let it sit for a few minutes.
14a. If the bike is on a stand, then you can look at the oil window if you need to add. Its better to have less than full then greater than full. But its not good to have less than less to where nothing shows up on the window!
14b. If the bike is not on the stand, well, stand the bike up and have someone look at the window for you, or use mirrors, etc.
15. Grab a tasty frosty beverage and relax, knowing you saved a bit and got your hands dirty in a good way. After you'll need to figure on where and how to dispose of the oil..
I continued to open up the front and finally clean my BMC air filter. Its just like a K/N with the exact red colorings. I bought the cleaning kit and followed the directions. Man there was abit of sand in there. Glad it wasn't in the engine!
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Now playing: Sungha Jung - Ombrellino
via FoxyTunes
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