What did you do to your FJR today?

[El Toro Joe]

Made arrangements for EOM week to arrive early and have an onsite seat made (and rear seat covered) at Terry's Custom Seats in TN. Then ride back to maggie valley wed for the meet. Should be interesting, at least thats the plan now...

Most folks will probably be arriving on Thursday...

[wheatonFJR]

Made arrangements for EOM week to arrive early and have an onsite seat made (and rear seat covered) at Terry's Custom Seats in TN. Then ride back to maggie valley wed for the meet. Should be interesting, at least thats the plan now...

You ride around here as much as you want. Lee's routes are kick ass. Yer allowed to ride em more than once...in fact I encourage it!

[Spininprop]

Made arrangements for EOM week to arrive early and have an onsite seat made (and rear seat covered) at Terry's Custom Seats in TN. Then ride back to maggie valley wed for the meet. Should be interesting, at least thats the plan now...

Most folks will probably be arriving on Thursday...

I know. I go riding on thursday then arrive back and drink beer as everyone pulls in.

[Abercrombie FJR]

Put it on the lift for a thorough inspection, oil, brake,clutch fluid change, and cleaned and soaked the clutch plates. I'm hoping my up shifts smooth out as aggressive up shifts didn't sound very good last year.

[CollingsBob]

Finished flushing brake lines..realized that the engine starts with the sidestand down, I think that means I can’t do the abs reservoir flush. Thought I’d double check coolant levels after changing it last week, realized that to gain access to the rad cap means pulling the left side panel off..which means removing the dash shelf so that the left side of the dash can be loosened in order to remove the top screw on the side panel..Are you f’n kidding me? I swear to god I’m going to dremel a hole in the side panel to allow access to the rad cap/coolant overflow tank.

[bill lumberg]

Today, I rode far slower than I would have normally. For hours. Escorting a fairly new rider on a sample of the Skyway. I may have to go crazy on that same route tomorrow just to undo the bending that today did to me. It was for a good cause.

[jwilly]

No riding for me today. Agreed to hang out with my Twin Grand-kids to give my Daughter a chance to catch up at work. Had fun with them and my Grand-Daughter had a blast helping Pops clean his motorcycle. Got my new Angel GT 2's Mounted last night, ready for next weeks trip to SEOR and beyond.

[czimmer]

Changed the spark plugs and checked/tightened the steering bearings. Then, on top of my normal bike checks, finally gave the bike a true wax/polish.

Thursday saw a fresh oil change, air filter change, and final drive oil change.

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[wheatonFJR]

No riding for me today. Agreed to hang out with my Twin Grand-kids to give my Daughter a chance to catch up at work. Had fun with them and my Grand-Daughter had a blast helping Pops clean his motorcycle. Got my new Angel GT 2's Mounted last night, ready for next weeks trip to SEOR and beyond.

The "jwilly look" is strong in those two...

[ionbeam]

....

Child slave labor. JSNS.

[Festus]

Rode to Seneca Rocks. Sunny when I left at 6:30 this morning. Raining about an hour in. Rode in rain and wet roads until about noon when the sun starting coming out.

Crossed me over 3,000 miles so far this year. Already more than last year’s entire year.

[wheatonFJR]

Buy it.

[Festus]

A couple photos from Sunday's ride.

[Steel_Gin]

Took off the left foot peg, took apart the shifting linkage, cleaned it up and put on some fresh grease. I used marine grade grease, is that a good one to use because of the rain or something else better?

[ionbeam]

Marine grease is as good as any, but you will have to squeeze it out of Wayne yourself



On reassembly, shoulder bolt #28 can be over tightened causing the shifter to not return to the middle position and thus prevent shifting gears without fiddling the shifter with your toe. Item 29 is a wave washer that shouldn't be flattened when the shoulder bolt is seated. The intent of the wave washer is to keep the shift lever from buzzing in and out as you ride. On my '04, if the shoulder bolt was turned all the way in the wave washer was flattened causing the same shift linkage drag which I wanted to fix by cleaning it. I used a little blue loctite and turned in the screw until there was still a tiny amount of in/out movement of the shift lever and the screw wasn't quite seated. There are some bikes that you can seat shoulder bolt #28 and everything works just fine. This was a lot of words just to say to check the shift lever for free movement after tightening the shoulder bolt

[Steel_Gin]

Marine grease is as good as any, but you will have to squeeze it out of Wayne yourself



On reassembly, shoulder bolt #28 can be over tightened causing the shifter to not return to the middle position and thus prevent shifting gears without fiddling the shifter with your toe. Item 29 is a wave washer that shouldn't be flattened when the shoulder bolt is seated. The intent of the wave washer is to keep the shift lever from buzzing in and out as you ride. On my '04, if the shoulder bolt was turned all the way in the wave washer was flattened causing the same shift linkage drag which I wanted to fix by cleaning it. I used a little blue loctite and turned in the screw until there was still a tiny amount of in/out movement of the shift lever and the screw wasn't quite seated. There are some bikes that you can seat shoulder bolt #28 and everything works just fine. This was a lot of words just to say to check the shift lever for free movement after tightening the shoulder bolt

Thanks!! Based on that I over tightened it for sure. I guess I know what I will be doing tonight.........What I will be doing to my FJR today.

[Steel_Gin]

Marine grease is as good as any, but you will have to squeeze it out of Wayne yourself



On reassembly, shoulder bolt #28 can be over tightened causing the shifter to not return to the middle position and thus prevent shifting gears without fiddling the shifter with your toe. Item 29 is a wave washer that shouldn't be flattened when the shoulder bolt is seated. The intent of the wave washer is to keep the shift lever from buzzing in and out as you ride. On my '04, if the shoulder bolt was turned all the way in the wave washer was flattened causing the same shift linkage drag which I wanted to fix by cleaning it. I used a little blue loctite and turned in the screw until there was still a tiny amount of in/out movement of the shift lever and the screw wasn't quite seated. There are some bikes that you can seat shoulder bolt #28 and everything works just fine. This was a lot of words just to say to check the shift lever for free movement after tightening the shoulder bolt

Thanks!! Based on that I over tightened it for sure. I guess I know what I will be doing tonight.........What I will be doing to my FJR today.

And changed the air filter.

[Powerman]

Flushed and changed the coolant and changed the oil. Tore out old wiring and wired up new Garmin 595.
Cleaned up and labeled the wiring and fuse block. Rinsed off antifreeze.

[bill lumberg]

Yesterday, my 2wheels levers arrived, and I installed them. Fast shipping, great packaging. Quick function check, everything good. Rode to work this morning in a spirited fashion. Everything seemed perfectly normal. No issues, normal function, to include cruise control. Around a half hour later, arrived in zombie central, goosed it on the ramp, and whooooooommmm. Clutch slippage. Repeatable, regardless of which click the lever was on. Nursed it to the parking garage, trying to be ginger.

Luckily, since I'm OCD, I almost never make a change to the bike without carrying the parts/tools to back out of it for a couple of days. Confirmed that everything was seated like it's supposed to be with the 2wheels levers. It was. Pulled em off, installed the OEM levers. Problem solved. I just hope I haven't ruined the clutch in the meantime. With the stock levers back on, I put the 2wheels levers where they belonged....

[raYzerman]

That's why they call it a slipper clutch? Kidding..... you didn't ruin your clutch. Perhaps compare why the new set puts pressure on the master cylinder moreso than the OEM's..... seems odd, but anything's possible.