Flyinace1
Junior Member
Howdy guys,
I've been riding for about 2 years now and had my FZ6 for 1.5 years and about 30,000 miles. Most of what I have learned about riding and maintaining my bike was from a friend's dad who also rode. He taught me about lubing, cleaning and replacing the chain and sprockets, oiling the cables (do these every need to replaced or just kept oiled?), changing the oil and checking the tires and that was it. And I keep all that in good shape
So I have only recently learned about other things, like valve checks and replacing fork oil and seals, head stem bearings, swingarm bearing and such. I had the valves checked, spark plugs and air filter replaced and brake fluid flushed about 7k miles ago when the bike was in the shop but that's it.
While checking my front tire and the head stem bearing the other day(by shaking the forks) I noticed that my front wheel doesn't spin freely which I'm guessing means a rotor is slightly off. I know the bearings in the head stem (I hope I'm calling that the right thing) needs replacing and I have no idea when the fork oil or seals were last replaced but I don't see any leaks. I've read that I should probably flush the coolant as well.
I'd like to get my bike back to a well cared for condition, and running like top is there anything else that I should do on it? I'd like to do the work so that I can learn how for the future and other bikes but the forks and head stem are very daunting. Can someone walk me through the process or possibly a local who may be willing to help me out. Also what type of parts and special tools will I need to take care of all the maintenance? I'm pretty good with tools and figuring stuff out but I have done little mechanical work.
Thanx guys
I've been riding for about 2 years now and had my FZ6 for 1.5 years and about 30,000 miles. Most of what I have learned about riding and maintaining my bike was from a friend's dad who also rode. He taught me about lubing, cleaning and replacing the chain and sprockets, oiling the cables (do these every need to replaced or just kept oiled?), changing the oil and checking the tires and that was it. And I keep all that in good shape
So I have only recently learned about other things, like valve checks and replacing fork oil and seals, head stem bearings, swingarm bearing and such. I had the valves checked, spark plugs and air filter replaced and brake fluid flushed about 7k miles ago when the bike was in the shop but that's it.
While checking my front tire and the head stem bearing the other day(by shaking the forks) I noticed that my front wheel doesn't spin freely which I'm guessing means a rotor is slightly off. I know the bearings in the head stem (I hope I'm calling that the right thing) needs replacing and I have no idea when the fork oil or seals were last replaced but I don't see any leaks. I've read that I should probably flush the coolant as well.
I'd like to get my bike back to a well cared for condition, and running like top is there anything else that I should do on it? I'd like to do the work so that I can learn how for the future and other bikes but the forks and head stem are very daunting. Can someone walk me through the process or possibly a local who may be willing to help me out. Also what type of parts and special tools will I need to take care of all the maintenance? I'm pretty good with tools and figuring stuff out but I have done little mechanical work.
Thanx guys
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