Matt300ZXT
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Since apparently I can't figure out the intricacies of the resetting of 3 knobs and absolutely killing my bike's drivability, I figure I could at least change the fluids with this stuff I've had lying around.
I lifted it up in the air with my motorcycle jack so I'd get accurate readings. The oil was easy to pump out of the tank using my vacuum sucker thing, but apparently I didn't get enough out as it didn't even take 3 qts before it was about to overflow. Luckily I have one of those scavenger things, so I hooked it up and drained the last of the dirty oil out into a cup. I traced the rubber line coming out of the tank and it has some weird looking termination on the end bolted to the frame. I didn't wanna deal with that, so the pump was the easier option. I did clean the tappet screen, it had some crud in it and the oil system is all bolted back up. That old filter was a paaaaaain to get off....I had to hammer screwdrivers into it like 5 times to get it to spin off. The new K&N filter luckily has the nut welded on the end so I can easily spin it on and off.
I drained the primary fluid and that stuff was nasty. The magnet had a good bit of shavings on it but I cleaned it off and popped it back in and poured in the Lucas Primary Fluid I got from Curtis. I was going to run the same Amsoil 20w50 but even though a lot of people I read had good luck with synthetic in the primary, even more said no no no to synthetic. One guy on a previous post of mine said to use like half a quart rather than a quart like the primary says, until it came up to the clutch assembly. I was looking in the manual and where it was showing to have the oil come to, the entire quart barely got to it, so I've got the whole quart in there. It's hard to see w/o some mega bright flash light because of shadows and my cell phone light just isn't that great I guess.
I was going to change the transmission fluid, but by the time I finally got to it the bike had way cooled down. And apparently some genius made the dipstick a huge ass allen bolt. I have metric bits but it needed like a 9 and my set doesn't have that, so I guess I'm going to have to find out what size it is in standard and go buy 1 stinkin' allen bit. I'll have to drain and fill it another time, perhaps if I can get someone local over here to get this stupid carb reset and running right.
I lifted it up in the air with my motorcycle jack so I'd get accurate readings. The oil was easy to pump out of the tank using my vacuum sucker thing, but apparently I didn't get enough out as it didn't even take 3 qts before it was about to overflow. Luckily I have one of those scavenger things, so I hooked it up and drained the last of the dirty oil out into a cup. I traced the rubber line coming out of the tank and it has some weird looking termination on the end bolted to the frame. I didn't wanna deal with that, so the pump was the easier option. I did clean the tappet screen, it had some crud in it and the oil system is all bolted back up. That old filter was a paaaaaain to get off....I had to hammer screwdrivers into it like 5 times to get it to spin off. The new K&N filter luckily has the nut welded on the end so I can easily spin it on and off.
I drained the primary fluid and that stuff was nasty. The magnet had a good bit of shavings on it but I cleaned it off and popped it back in and poured in the Lucas Primary Fluid I got from Curtis. I was going to run the same Amsoil 20w50 but even though a lot of people I read had good luck with synthetic in the primary, even more said no no no to synthetic. One guy on a previous post of mine said to use like half a quart rather than a quart like the primary says, until it came up to the clutch assembly. I was looking in the manual and where it was showing to have the oil come to, the entire quart barely got to it, so I've got the whole quart in there. It's hard to see w/o some mega bright flash light because of shadows and my cell phone light just isn't that great I guess.
I was going to change the transmission fluid, but by the time I finally got to it the bike had way cooled down. And apparently some genius made the dipstick a huge ass allen bolt. I have metric bits but it needed like a 9 and my set doesn't have that, so I guess I'm going to have to find out what size it is in standard and go buy 1 stinkin' allen bit. I'll have to drain and fill it another time, perhaps if I can get someone local over here to get this stupid carb reset and running right.
I am totally beat for the day though, I'll have to continue that quest another day to refill it. I was out there working on my bike and cussing at it for nearly 5 hours lol
