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Figured I would share what I did with the FJR this weekend.
So it all started off around 10 AM CDT. I woke up feeling great excited to work on the bike.
My to do list was as followed.
1. Oil & Filter change
2. Check all the hoses
3. Flush clutch & brake fluid
4. Check the splines and grease up if necessary
5. Change brake light
I started off with buying everything.
1. Oil - Mobile 1 10w40 synthetic (for race bikes, because the FJR is a Moto GP bike)
2. K&N oil filter - See race bike
3. Valvoline synthetic DOT 3 & 4 fluid - This stuff is gold
4. Mityvac - Ease
5. Honda moly 77 - I've read good things
6. 8 MM open end wrench (Out of all my tools this one was missing)
I pull the bike in the garage and start with the clutch. Fairly straight forward.
1. Remove the clutch reservoir cover
2. Pull the nipple cover off hook up the almighty mityvac
3. Crack the 8mm bleeder valve.
4. Then pump away.
5. WATCH THE FLUID LEVEL
Everything was going great. I began to really enjoy the work I was doing until I heard this sucking sound. MY GOD, I thought to myself. I thought for sure the mityvac was broken. So I release the pressure and declare the Mityvac a piece of crap. Then it hit me. THE FLUID! I looked and of course it was bone dry. In my desperation to attempt to turn back time I made a gigantic mess. So 45 minutes later and i'm confident I got all the air out of the system. I also managed to use a whole bottle of brake fluid in the process.
BACK TO AUTOZONE!
This time while at autozone I bought a gigantic bottle of the stuff.
BACK TO THE GARAGE!
The front brake fluid went much smoother as I was being completely guarded about the fluid. Took about 10 minutes for both left & right.
Then I get to the rear. MY GOD THE BOTTLE IS EMPTY! This would explain my brake pedal feeling so mushy.
I pumped the damn mityvac for almost 1 hour and still didn't get all the air out. F**K it.
Time for the oil change.
Another huge problem arose.
1. Drain bolt was tightened by the hand of God.
2. Oil filter was also tightened by the hand of God.
I finally got the drain bolt undone when I grabbed the trust breaker bar!
Oil filter? I put multiple wrenches on it to get it undone.
Wasn't having it. The filter was staying even if I said no!
Then it hit me. A SCREW DRIVER, I thought to myself. Grabbed the biggest screw driver and I was sending this oil filter straight to hell where it belonged.
A bunch of small turns later she is off. At this point i'm so exhausted because everything is going wrong.
I drain the oil out. Refill and manage to drop the god d*** funnel. F**K!!!!!!!!! Oil is now everywhere.
I lost a whole quart
At this point i'm ready to throw this bike off a mountain and forget about the whole day. I finally got everything nice and finished (well what I was doing that day anyways... or so I thought).
I decided against the drive shaft splines. If an oil change and brake fluid change was going this bad I couldn't imagine the drive shaft.
So I buttoned the bike back up and had the stare of someone who has been through world war 1 & 2.
I drove the bike around the block. GREAT A GRINDING NOISE!
Turn around and go home. Jerk the rear caliper off and what do I see? No fkn pads left. Most people will claim no pads left and still have a little friction material left. My pads was eating into the actual pad. It had lost roughly 2mm of it's height. Great rotor is now trashed and so are the brakes.
I thought to myself how did I not hear this? Then it all started making sense.
1. No brake fluid - Caliper was totally extended beyond it's limits
2. No brakes - mushy as could be
3. NO MORE FJR!
So I kicked the bike over and lit it ablaze and drank a nice cold beer.
THE END!
Just kidding. Ran to the stealership (Amazon was gonna take to long). Got new pads.
6. New Brake pads - $45 before tax (The wonderful stealership)
Get back throw those on and pray the rotor isn't warped.
No grinding no warp!
Then I changed the brake light. This took 2 seconds and was by far the most successful thing I did all day.
I'm interested to see how the valve change goes
** EDIT 1 - FORGOT THE DANG PICTURES **
Figured I would share what I did with the FJR this weekend.
So it all started off around 10 AM CDT. I woke up feeling great excited to work on the bike.
My to do list was as followed.
1. Oil & Filter change
2. Check all the hoses
3. Flush clutch & brake fluid
4. Check the splines and grease up if necessary
5. Change brake light
I started off with buying everything.
1. Oil - Mobile 1 10w40 synthetic (for race bikes, because the FJR is a Moto GP bike)
2. K&N oil filter - See race bike
3. Valvoline synthetic DOT 3 & 4 fluid - This stuff is gold
4. Mityvac - Ease
5. Honda moly 77 - I've read good things
6. 8 MM open end wrench (Out of all my tools this one was missing)
I pull the bike in the garage and start with the clutch. Fairly straight forward.
1. Remove the clutch reservoir cover
2. Pull the nipple cover off hook up the almighty mityvac
3. Crack the 8mm bleeder valve.
4. Then pump away.
5. WATCH THE FLUID LEVEL
Everything was going great. I began to really enjoy the work I was doing until I heard this sucking sound. MY GOD, I thought to myself. I thought for sure the mityvac was broken. So I release the pressure and declare the Mityvac a piece of crap. Then it hit me. THE FLUID! I looked and of course it was bone dry. In my desperation to attempt to turn back time I made a gigantic mess. So 45 minutes later and i'm confident I got all the air out of the system. I also managed to use a whole bottle of brake fluid in the process.
BACK TO AUTOZONE!
This time while at autozone I bought a gigantic bottle of the stuff.
BACK TO THE GARAGE!
The front brake fluid went much smoother as I was being completely guarded about the fluid. Took about 10 minutes for both left & right.
Then I get to the rear. MY GOD THE BOTTLE IS EMPTY! This would explain my brake pedal feeling so mushy.
I pumped the damn mityvac for almost 1 hour and still didn't get all the air out. F**K it.
Time for the oil change.
Another huge problem arose.
1. Drain bolt was tightened by the hand of God.
2. Oil filter was also tightened by the hand of God.
I finally got the drain bolt undone when I grabbed the trust breaker bar!
Oil filter? I put multiple wrenches on it to get it undone.
Wasn't having it. The filter was staying even if I said no!
Then it hit me. A SCREW DRIVER, I thought to myself. Grabbed the biggest screw driver and I was sending this oil filter straight to hell where it belonged.
A bunch of small turns later she is off. At this point i'm so exhausted because everything is going wrong.
I drain the oil out. Refill and manage to drop the god d*** funnel. F**K!!!!!!!!! Oil is now everywhere.
I lost a whole quart
At this point i'm ready to throw this bike off a mountain and forget about the whole day. I finally got everything nice and finished (well what I was doing that day anyways... or so I thought).
I decided against the drive shaft splines. If an oil change and brake fluid change was going this bad I couldn't imagine the drive shaft.
So I buttoned the bike back up and had the stare of someone who has been through world war 1 & 2.
I drove the bike around the block. GREAT A GRINDING NOISE!
Turn around and go home. Jerk the rear caliper off and what do I see? No fkn pads left. Most people will claim no pads left and still have a little friction material left. My pads was eating into the actual pad. It had lost roughly 2mm of it's height. Great rotor is now trashed and so are the brakes.
I thought to myself how did I not hear this? Then it all started making sense.
1. No brake fluid - Caliper was totally extended beyond it's limits
2. No brakes - mushy as could be
3. NO MORE FJR!
So I kicked the bike over and lit it ablaze and drank a nice cold beer.
THE END!
Just kidding. Ran to the stealership (Amazon was gonna take to long). Got new pads.
6. New Brake pads - $45 before tax (The wonderful stealership)
Get back throw those on and pray the rotor isn't warped.
No grinding no warp!
Then I changed the brake light. This took 2 seconds and was by far the most successful thing I did all day.
I'm interested to see how the valve change goes
** EDIT 1 - FORGOT THE DANG PICTURES **
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