40,000 mile service, anything i can do myself.

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my bikes just done over 40,000 miles, and i think i should get it serviced, but cant at the mo due to a cash shortage. Is there anything i could do myself? thanks

[gubbs]

All of it mate.

How confident are you?

Does the bike smoke e.g. does it need valves cutting and reseating and new guides etc?

Or just a general service; oil, plugs, fluids, fork oil, bearings, carb balance etc?

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Im fairly confident mate, im not sure i have the tools to deal with the valves. no its not smoking but i think i need to ballance the carbs. how do you change or check the bearing and folk oil, cheers for the help!

[RedexRobB]

bearings? do you mean the head bearings?

http://www.zxrworld.co.uk/zxr400/headstock.html

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not sure? ha ha

[gubbs]

So what have you decided then?

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im pretty sure i can do all the standard stuff like plugs, oil ect. how do you change the fork oil?

[gubbs]

You'll need to have a jack to tip the front off the floor by jacking the bike up onto the sidestand, drop the forks from the yokes (loosen the alum clamps) and remove the front wheel and brake calipers from the fork mountings (just let them hang loose).

Then literally, just inscrew the top of the forks.

The rest is in the manual pdf.

Its dead easy if you aren't changing the seals.

Usually just pull the guts out, empty out all the oil, wipe everything up, stick it back in and top it off.

If you use a good quality synthetic oil, you won't need to change it until the seals go.
Which hopefully, will be forever.

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thanks for that mate, if i have anytime over the weekend ill give it a go. cheers!