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 TighteningRadiator and Cooling Fan
Check the radiator fins for obstruction
by insects or mud. Clean off
any obstructions with a stream of
low-pressure water.
WARNINGThe cooling fan spins at high
speed and can cause serious
injuries. Keep your hands and
clothing away from the cooling
fan blades at all times.
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Valve Guide Removal
Remove:
Valve (see Valve Removal)
Oil Seal
Spring Seat
Heat the area around the valve guide to 120
150°C (248
302°F), and hammer lightly on
the valve guide arbor [A]
to remove the guide from the top of the head.
NOTICE
Do not heat the cylinder head with a torch. This ...
Transmission Shaft Disassembly
Remove the transmission shafts (see Transmission Shaft
Removal).
Remove the circlips, and then disassemble the transmission
shafts.
Special Tool - Outside Circlip Pliers: 57001-144
The 5th gear [A] on the output shaft has three steel balls
assembled into it for the positive neutral fin ...