Tuesday, April 28, 2009

A guide on how to change the oil on a Yamaha V-Star 1100

 

There are 11 steps you should follow in order to change your oil..

Step1

Make sure your motorcycle is in gear. Take a piece of wood and place it under your kick stand to level out your motorcycle.

Step2

Locate and loosen the oil drain plug. loosen the two bolts/nuts holding the exhaust pipe to the manifold. Do not remove them completely.

Step3

Take block of wood out from under the stand and put the motorcycle in neutral. Start engine until it is warm but not too hot. Then turn off engine.

Step4

Place motorcycle back in gear and place wood understand. Slide a shallow pan under the engine and unscrew drain plug to drain oil.

Step5

Remove the two bolts holding mufflers to the frame. Next, loosen the clamps holding the front pipes to the mufflers and remove the bolt holding the rear brake reservoir.

Step6

Remove the two nuts on the forward exhaust pipe flange and remove front exhaust pipe.

Step7

Loosen the five case screws holding the filter cover on. Take filter hatch plug and remove it by wiggling it back and forth.

Step8

Reinstall all parts in reverse order.

Step9

Unscrew oil filler cap and insert funnel into hole. Fill engine with oil.

Step10

Start motorcycle and warm engine to full operating temperature. Check to make sure there are no leaks.

Step11

Shut down engine and check oil by looking at the oil level in glass on the left-hand side of the motorcycle.

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