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 TighteningCaliper Installation
Install the caliper and brake hose lower end.
For the front caliper, be sure to install the collars [A].
Replace the washers on each side of hose fitting with new
ones.
Touch the brake hoses [A] to the stopper [B] of the caliper.
Front Calipers [C]
Rear Caliper [D]
Tighten:
To ...
Cam Wear Inspection
Remove the camshafts (see Camshaft Removal).
Measure the height [A] of each cam with a micrometer.
If the cams are worn down past the service limit, replace
the camshaft.
Cam Height
Standard:
Exhaust 35.043 35.157 mm
(1.3796 1.3841 in.)
Intake 38.243 38.357 mm
(1.5056 1.5101 in. ...
Oxygen Sensor Removal (Equipped Models)
Remove:
Fuel Tank (see Fuel Tank Removal in the Fuel System
(DFI) chapter)
Right Lower Fairing (see Lower Fairing Removal in the
Frame chapter)
Disconnect the oxygen sensor lead connector [A].
NOTICE
Do not pull strongly, twist, or bend the oxygen sensor
lead. This may cause the wi ...