If your motorcycle has leather accessories, special care must be taken.
Use a leather cleaner/treatment to clean and care for leather accessories.
Washing leather parts with detergent and water will damage them, shortening their life.
Vinyl parts should be washed with the rest of themotorcycle, then treated with a vinyl treatment.
The sidewalls of tires and other rubber components should be treated with a rubber protectant to help prolong their useful life.
| WARNING Rubber protectants can be slippery and, if used on the tread area, cause loss of traction resulting in accident causing injury or death. Do not apply rubber protectant to any tread area. |
Chrome and Aluminum
Bolt and Nut TighteningExhaust Butterfly Valve Actuator Removal
NOTICE
Never drop the exhaust butterfly valve actuator especially
on a hard surface. Such a shock to the actuator
can damage it.
Remove:
Front Seat (see Front Seat Removal in the Frame chapter)
Clamp [A]
Screws [B] and Washers
Slide the covers [A] and loosen the lock nuts [B] ...
Rocker Arm Installation
Install the both rocker arms [A] so that their marks [B] face
left side.
Replace the tie-rod nut, rear shock absorber nut and
rocker arm nut with new ones.
Apply grease to the inside of the oil seals.
Tighten:
Torque - Rocker Arm Nut: 34 N·m (3.5 kgf·m, 25 ft·lb)
Tie-Rod ...
Crankshaft Sensor Installation
Apply a non-permanent locking agent to the crankshaft
sensor bolts [A].
Tighten:
Torque - Crankshaft Sensor Bolts: 5.9 N·m (0.60 kgf·m, 52
in·lb)
Using a high flash-point solvent, clean off any oil or dirt
that may be on the silicone sealant coating area. Dry
them with a clean cl ...