Nice productive couple of evenings Stripped the fairings, easier than expected, thanks to some videos on here Coolant change- Dropped the small hose from the water pump, used the sucker of the antifreeze tester connected into the small pipe from filler cap to bottle, came straight out. Chopped a lucozade bottle in half, drilled a 6mm hole in cap and pushed some washer pipe into it and superglued around pipe and used this as the expansion bottle filler. Flushed all out twice with distilled water running up to temp and draining twice. Added 2.8 litres of Motul coolant into engine and exp bottle and left over night with cap off Ran up to about 70 with cap off, and upto fans cutting in with cap on, carefully removed cap at about 90deg and topped back up and kept running it for 2-3 mins and then cap off to get any air left in there - Job done Cleaned out the frt sprocket and cover which was pretty gunked up with oily wax using a mix of kerosene and wd40 and rebuilt. Dropped the oil and filter whilst warm and left for a few hours to fully drain. Topped up with Motul 5100 and rebuilt back together with a new Honda filter, got to say I wasn't looking forwards to getting the fairings back on but only took about 30 mins. Those bottom connections to the bottom fairing, you can spend minutes with no success then it just clicks into place without a problem. Quite pleased with myself Only issue I have is one of those rubber nuts that takes those allen key style fairing bolts dropped in bits..... Anyone got one? As I plastic tied it at the bottom for now.
Dropped the oil myself last night, I let it drip overnight. I got a hiflo filter with my Motul 300v, but went to Honda to get an OEM filter. Im sure it's fine but my OCD will keep me awake at night not using OEM oil filters stupid I know! Re filling the expansion was a nightmare at first, lost the cap, spilt most of the antifreeze on the driveway. Now have a purpose made funnel with a hose attached to refill the tank. I also use a bit of water wetter, probably snake oil but it seems to help temps lower.
