First thing you want to do is remove our oil fill cap. That’s going to help the crankcase vent properly when draining our engine oil. After that, using a 12 millimeter socket we’ll go ahead and remove the drain bolt and let the engine oil drain completely. While the engine oil is draining, it’s a
Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com. Today I’m going to show you how to replace the coolant on our 2005 Honda VTX 1800. Not really that complicated a procedure, you need to get the fuel tank and a couple of panels out of the way, get the system drained, and then get it refilled and
The first thing we want to do is take a 21 millimeter socket and remove the drain bolt to our rear differential and let the oil drain completely. Once it’s completely drained, we’ll go ahead and reinstall a drain bolt. But this time, we’ll torque it the 16.5 foot-pounds. You also want to make sure
Hello, John Talley here with Partzilla.com. You know we’ve had it happen to all of us: we go out to ride, flip on the key, and there’s nothing there. No lights, no nothing. So what do you do? Well, most people just go back inside and hang it up for the day, but me I
Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com. Today I’m going to show you how to bleed the brakes on our 2008 Honda CBR600 RR. Only need a couple of tools to get this done and some DOT4 brake fluid. Besides that I’m going to show you two different ways on how to handle it. I’m going
Hello John Talley here with Partzilla.com. Today i’m going to show you how to bleed the clutch system on our 2007 Suzuki GSXR 1000. Pretty simple to do. I just need to grab a couple of tools and I’ll show you how to get it done. This is going to be a very easy one
Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com. I know plenty of ya’ll have gone out to the garage, turned on the key to your bike, getting ready to ride, got your helmet on, hit the starter and– you hear that. So, here’s the question: does the battery need to be recharged or does it need to
Hello, John Talley here with Partzilla.com. Today I’m going to show you the process of diagnosing a starter solenoid. So, let’s head over to the bench where we can start talking about it. No matter what type of machine you have, I guarantee you it’s going to have some type of starting solenoid. I have
Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com. Today we’re going to be looking at the charging system on our 2005 Honda VTX1800. Basically, it’s made up of three different parts that we need to test: first, the battery, then we need to take a look at the stator, and then the regulator rectifier. So let me
hello john talley here with partzilla.com today we're going to be taking a look at the stator that is used on most of your ATVs side-by-sides and motorcycles there's a couple of different types and there's very specific ways we can look at them and test them so let's head over to the table and