I've bought a yr 2000 1150gs it's got the rattle so I thought for my first job I would do something easy, I watched all the YouTube videos and it looks easy
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Throttle body is off and I even managed to loosen the tensioner without butchering my 17mm spanner, but when I lift it up the spring stays in the cylinder so that I can't move it out of the way. I've tried pushing the spring down with a small screwdriver but no joy, am I missing something or am I going the have to remove the A arm to get enough clearance to lift the bolt out?
@jobjobbed, The rattle?? Do you mean the one for about 5 seconds after you start it ??
Screw it all back together CAREFULLY
Drain the oil! (change the oil filter too for a service benchmark! Get a Mahle OC91D it will come with the crush washers! Don't use Hi flo filters they're schite!! )
Change the oil to 3.8 litre of a decent 20W50 and refer to your username !!
When these arrived in the showroom the recommended oil was 20W50, I can't for the life of me work out why people needed to have "better Oil" Which is USUALLY when these complaints started People started using 10W40 or less viscous fully synth
The Correct volume of Oil, Correct grade, changed every 6000 miles (5000 if you wish?) is perfectly adequate Even if you are wringing the beans out of it occasionally
Oh and checking oil ?? When you come in from a decent ride (full operating temp 5 bars on gauge, park the bike on its sidestand and take your gear off, close the garage up or whatever, Allow it about 5 mins to settle and hoik it up on the centre stand in another 30 seconds or so you will have a pretty decent true measure of the oil (there is about a litre in the Oil Cooler!)
People bang on about oil usage, but "usually" they are usually the ones keeping the oil level on full! So only stick in a 1/4 ~1/2 litre when you get to a 1/3 up from the base of the sideglass
Even I, did this with my 1200 But then again they had a BAD rep for losing valve heads and it had already wrecked a head / cylinder before I owned her
But some one said something that made sense! They find their own level! you Have two half litre pain tins flying up and down in there smashing oil into vapour that gets blown about and ends up disappearing by whatever means
So you top up and the cycle continues If you only top up to halfway "usually" the consumption lowers and if you are brave enough allow it to a third up from bottom and in many cases it just seems to have found its own level
I went from about a litre and a half between services to about 300 ~400ml
Good Luck
enjoy the bike
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