| Author | Message | ||
     Kevinjgray88 |
i have my 630 mile service coming up but was invited for a nice nike ride. is it ok if i go over 630 before i get it serviced and if so how many miles | ||
| Avc8130 |
The ECM marks the exact mileage the first service occurs at. If you bring it to the dealer for warranty they check the ECM. If 631 or greater the warranty is voided. ac PS: This is a joke. | ||
| Dktechguy112 |
I think i would at least do the oil change, you don't want to romp on the bike without changing the oil. | ||
| Froggy |
The 620 service is just an oil and filter change. Do it yourself, takes less than an hour, thats assuming you don't know what you are doing. | ||
| Drhodes1970 |
Iwas at 680 when mine was done and my dealer said that was fine. Just sayin. | ||
| Stirz007 |
Yah - all true - the 620 mile (a.k.a. 1000 km) service is just a number. If you want to run double that, you probably could, but the trade-off is running oil with break-in bits through your brand-new bike longer. The service interval is a guide, not a rule. Lots of highway miles, you can probably push the limits. Lots of hard miles, maybe service more frequently. It's really not something that you need to be obsessed over. With that said, I'm pretty religious about meeting minimum service intervals, because I have the anal engineer geek gene. But I also know that these intervals are based upon average use and wear and can vary under actual conditions by quite a bit. (I actually did my first service at about 500-550 because it was convenient at the time). I would recommend that you try to get that first one done right around 620, because most engines experience something like 90% of their wear within the first 500 miles or so during break-in. | ||
| Mikellyjo |
Froggy... I have agreed with 92% of your posts but this one is totally absurd. Even if you know what you're doing it takes well over an hour. Oh wait, technically changing the oil will take less than an hour. However the cleanup when that SOB lets loose over the kickstand takes longer than the BP oil rupture and that's still going on. So, I stand corrected within my own post and up the FAR (Froggy accuracy rating) to 93.4%  | ||
| Stirz007 |
Mike I gotta lean with Frog on this one.. If you count everything (warmup through final clean-up), yeah maybe over an hour. I'm kinda slow, but it takes me maybe 30 minutes once I have it on the lifts. I will say that the XB takes about the same or a little longer because I have to use two oils... | ||
| Froggy |
My last one took 40 minutes, and not a drop of oil hit the floor. and I am so mechanically retarded that my R has had no muffler for 2 months due to me not being able to reinstall it. I can do my Blast in about 10 minutes if I had the supplies handy.  | ||
| Ratbuell |
I can do my Blast in about 10 minutes if I had the supplies handy. : ) Wrecking it and having it pee oil all over the ground does NOT count! That said...not having the right tools and not having anything organized (and granted, I cheated by doing it right after a ride so no "warmup time")...I had my CR done in about 25 minutes. Makes the aircooled stuff seem positively *difficult* by comparison LOL. | ||
| Froggy |
I like the Blast doesn't need wrenches so I don't make 40 trips to the toolbox to figure out that the 6/49 wrench doesn't fit, then guessing if the 4/24 wrench is bigger or not. I just need a pair of needle nose pliers to remove the clamp off the drain hose, then that jar opener thing to remove the old filter. Let oil dump on ground, replace filter, plug drain hose, and refill. The XB on the other hand is a pain in the ass with all kinds of different fasteners, strippable drain plugs, pain in the ass to get to the fill hole, and all kinds of body work that need to be removed. | ||
| Mikellyjo |
Great  ...thanks for the heads up, my wife's XB12r just hit the 1000 mile mark. I'll be sure to double up on the PITA pills. Maybe it's time she learns to wrench now that she has her own bike. | ||
| Stirz007 |
So Frog - do you usually dump your oil on the ground? I did the XB last night as it turns out, and with this exact thread in mind, I timed it. Not rushing, but once bike was warmed up and on the stand, it took all of 35 minutes to drain oil and tranny lube, refill, change filter. The chin spoiler took the most time to deal with - everything else can be done with 5/8" wrench, #27 TORX and a strap wrench. I did the 1125 last weekend and it seemed to be about the same amount of time, maybe less. I tend to let the drain process go on way too long and spend more time wiping down mating surfaces, etc. I'm thinking with practice you can do it in 10 minutes or less. And with an 18" round oil pan, you can get both plugs and filter to drain at the same time without getting anything on the floor. |
