Two postings from the Yamaha Diversion web site. First one is mine.
Max900, you preyed on my insecurity Just been into the garage & changed the final drive oil. (used 80/90 GL5 spec.)
A horrible shade of brown, not at all like the oil in the BMW FD, when I change that ( every 6000 miles) So your statement was probably correct about garages not bothering to change the oil.
As per usual managed to drip oil onto the floor
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1150GS XJ900S
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Re: Servicing recommendations
« Reply #6 on Sept 17, 2007, 6:25pm »
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Sept 15, 2007, 12:02pm, eliminator wrote:Max900, you preyed on my insecurity Just been into the garage & changed the final drive oil. (used 80/90 GL5 spec.)
A horrible shade of brown, not at all like the oil in the BMW FD, when I change that ( every 6000 miles) So your statement was probably correct about garages not bothering to change the oil.
As per usual managed to drip oil onto the floor
lol yep i discovered this when my bike went in for its 20k service a few years ago it was a local mechanic who did it and asked me if the shaft oil needed to be changed no idea says i so do it while your there
when i picked the bike back up he showed me something resembling brown water he reckoned it was the original oil(from factory)and was amazed my shaft hadn't seized (me too ) now i do all fluid changes myself and the shaft oil gets changed every 4k along with oil/filters might not need doing that often but its pretty inexpensive way of keeping things going.
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ktmmark, hopefully there will be no other consequences. The bit about a sealed bearing leaking out its grease seems a bit odd, why bother putting a sealed bearing in a bath of oil? The optimistic part of his reply was the bit about 20K & a few years ago.
