DaveDragon
Mar 5th, 2008, 9:33 am
Motorcycle Maintenance on a Sick Day Off (http://davedragon.rilysi.com/2008/03/motorcycle-maintenance-r1200gs-rilysi.html)
I felt like a wet sack of old socks Tuesday morning so I stayed home a day from the grind.
I made the 07:30 conference call as usual then tried to go back to sleep, to no avail.
At 09:00 I decided to stop fighting it and got up; within minutes I was in the garage prepping the GS Adventure for a day of maintenance, or as much as I could stand to do before giving out.
I placed the GS on the Center Stand and removed the rear wheel, then put a floor jack under the bash plate to enable me to remove the front wheel.
She stood there patiently while I drove the truck down to the local sport bike shop for new tires to be fitted. I also picked up the Motor Oil and Gearbox/Differential Lube before returning to the Casa.
I balanced the wheels using the Marc Parnes Static Balancer (http://www.marcparnes.com/), then removed the valve stems to dump the air and install Ride-On TPS (http://www.ride-onshop.com/content.cgi) in both tires, and aired them up to spec before reinstalling them.
I then took a ride to distribute the TPS throughout the tires and made my way to a local sand trap to sand blast the Mold Release off the new tires and to get the lubricants up to temperature for the changing.
Pulled the bash plate and drained the engine oil, removing the oil filter for the new one and filled her up with four quarts of full synthetic high-end oil.
Next came the transmission lube drain and fill before tackling the differential.
The differential of the 2006 GS Adventure is some what of a pain in the ass to drain & fill the lubricant. BMW had intended the Final Drive to be a sealed unit, never needing lubricant changing. NOT!
So it's off with the rear wheel again, along with the rear brake caliper, the brake line cover and rear wheel fender/mud flap.
The drain plug for the Final Drive is at the 9:00 O-clock position when facing the final drive from the right side. Before dropping the final drive down, you must remove the speed sensor from the final drive back plate. This is where you will install the lubricant.
Next you remove the stabilizer bar and disengage the final drive from the drive shaft, removing the drain plug to drain the lube.
While the drive shaft splines are accessible, clean them and reapply a fresh coating of white lithium grease. Clean the dust boot and put it back together meshing the Final Drive shaft with the drive shaft U-joint and reattach the stabilizer bar.
Now install 220ml of lube through the speed sensor hole. I use a large syringe to draw up the lube and squirt it in through the sensor hole. Still it's a messy operation and it gets on the rear brake rotor.
Reinstall the speed sensor and clean the final drive up; install the brake caliper and and fender/mud flap and the wheel.
I always renew the transmission and final drive / differential lube each time I change the engine oil. This is overkill PM but may as well get done all at once.
I also renewed the spark plugs while she was down for maintenance and
then completed the 42,000 mile service with scanning and clearing system faults using the GS911 (http://www.hex.co.za/gs911/index.html) and laptop.
By the time I got it all done, it was raining pretty hard and I finally got to feeling better than the old sack of socks as I started out.
LATER
I felt like a wet sack of old socks Tuesday morning so I stayed home a day from the grind.
I made the 07:30 conference call as usual then tried to go back to sleep, to no avail.
At 09:00 I decided to stop fighting it and got up; within minutes I was in the garage prepping the GS Adventure for a day of maintenance, or as much as I could stand to do before giving out.
I placed the GS on the Center Stand and removed the rear wheel, then put a floor jack under the bash plate to enable me to remove the front wheel.
She stood there patiently while I drove the truck down to the local sport bike shop for new tires to be fitted. I also picked up the Motor Oil and Gearbox/Differential Lube before returning to the Casa.
I balanced the wheels using the Marc Parnes Static Balancer (http://www.marcparnes.com/), then removed the valve stems to dump the air and install Ride-On TPS (http://www.ride-onshop.com/content.cgi) in both tires, and aired them up to spec before reinstalling them.
I then took a ride to distribute the TPS throughout the tires and made my way to a local sand trap to sand blast the Mold Release off the new tires and to get the lubricants up to temperature for the changing.
Pulled the bash plate and drained the engine oil, removing the oil filter for the new one and filled her up with four quarts of full synthetic high-end oil.
Next came the transmission lube drain and fill before tackling the differential.
The differential of the 2006 GS Adventure is some what of a pain in the ass to drain & fill the lubricant. BMW had intended the Final Drive to be a sealed unit, never needing lubricant changing. NOT!
So it's off with the rear wheel again, along with the rear brake caliper, the brake line cover and rear wheel fender/mud flap.
The drain plug for the Final Drive is at the 9:00 O-clock position when facing the final drive from the right side. Before dropping the final drive down, you must remove the speed sensor from the final drive back plate. This is where you will install the lubricant.
Next you remove the stabilizer bar and disengage the final drive from the drive shaft, removing the drain plug to drain the lube.
While the drive shaft splines are accessible, clean them and reapply a fresh coating of white lithium grease. Clean the dust boot and put it back together meshing the Final Drive shaft with the drive shaft U-joint and reattach the stabilizer bar.
Now install 220ml of lube through the speed sensor hole. I use a large syringe to draw up the lube and squirt it in through the sensor hole. Still it's a messy operation and it gets on the rear brake rotor.
Reinstall the speed sensor and clean the final drive up; install the brake caliper and and fender/mud flap and the wheel.
I always renew the transmission and final drive / differential lube each time I change the engine oil. This is overkill PM but may as well get done all at once.
I also renewed the spark plugs while she was down for maintenance and
then completed the 42,000 mile service with scanning and clearing system faults using the GS911 (http://www.hex.co.za/gs911/index.html) and laptop.
By the time I got it all done, it was raining pretty hard and I finally got to feeling better than the old sack of socks as I started out.
LATER