Been lurking here for a couple weeks in preparation of purchasing a 81 GS850L that I picked up a couple days ago.
As is customary with any new vehicle, I changed all the fluids today.
It was a long day with multiple trips to the hardware store to replace the studs for the oil filter cap. In my frustration with what turned into a 5 hour oil change, I put the drain plug back in and filled her up with oil before checking the torque specs. I did the same thing for the secondary and final gear case oil drain plugs. Poor wrenching, I know :/
There is no specific torque mentioned in the manual for those, so I referred to the tightening torque chart: Do you know what thread diameter the oil drain plugs are for the motor oil, and both gear case oil drain plugs? They were all a 21mm sockets. I think they are either 16 (58-95 lb-ft) or 18 (94-137 lb-ft) mm thread diameter. Both those torque specs sound really high to me, are they correct?
I look forward to nerding out about bikes with you guys!
As is customary with any new vehicle, I changed all the fluids today.
It was a long day with multiple trips to the hardware store to replace the studs for the oil filter cap. In my frustration with what turned into a 5 hour oil change, I put the drain plug back in and filled her up with oil before checking the torque specs. I did the same thing for the secondary and final gear case oil drain plugs. Poor wrenching, I know :/
There is no specific torque mentioned in the manual for those, so I referred to the tightening torque chart: Do you know what thread diameter the oil drain plugs are for the motor oil, and both gear case oil drain plugs? They were all a 21mm sockets. I think they are either 16 (58-95 lb-ft) or 18 (94-137 lb-ft) mm thread diameter. Both those torque specs sound really high to me, are they correct?
I look forward to nerding out about bikes with you guys!
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