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Great instructional video, Mike! Tnx :-) I may use it on our FJR1300Norway pages - if it's OK for you. Best Regards

Really well done! Greetings from Switzerland

Just found this vid in 2024. About 35 or so years ago that area was popular among guys riding ATV's. The buildings were more complete back then and the trees more sparse. You could see a good ways around the old track and there were still signs of its racing days with the occasional old wheel or tire, and a few areas where they buried tires half way to form a barrier. There was more dumping going on then though, it looks like someone cleaned it up a bit since the 80's. I remember piles of old appliances and car tires dumped out there. At that point some of the wood structure was still intact but was burnt, likely by forest fires in that area over the years. The whole one end of the tract was still showing burned trees about 15ft or so tall still standing in the woods. A buddy who knew the area and grew up there in the 50's said that the area had a huge forest fire in the early 60's that wiped out a good bit of what remained and the subsequent growth after the fire, which I believe may have burned again, is a lot of what your seeing today. Most of those larger trees don't look super old, maybe 50 years or so tops. There were few large trees when I was there back then. There were also signs of vagrants living in those old buildings, with makeshift tarps over sections and old whisky bottles strewn around too. The nearby areas at the time were also not the best and most didn't go there alone as it had a reputation in later years as a place for drug deals and such. It looks like much of that may have been solved but I see the dumping hasn't stopped. I'm too old to go exploring these day so its nice to see what became of the places we knew years ago.

Great video, exactly how I perform the oil/filter change on my 04' FJR!

What was the size led for neutral light on a gen 1 is it the 3 or the 5 ?

Good instructions. One thing I may add is too keep the bearings in the freezer over night. they will press in a little easier. I keep a small refrigerator in my shop just for this among other things

Hi Mike, hope all is well for you & yours in 2024. I'm back because...after my 'perfect' rebuild I find oil on the garage floor after the winter break coming from the left fork. Went for a short (60 mile) ride and the next morning quite a bit more of oil on the floor. Any suggestions? Or do I have to do this all over again?! Update: watched some videos on using the seal mate tool (DIY) and gonna try that first. I'll get back to you here about my success/failure ratio... Addendum: well, that was kinda good for nothing...had to take the weight off the front end (floor jack to center stand) to expose that critical inch of fork (😛) to get the dust cap off but no matter where or how I could not get the Seal Mate to work! Managed to get it stuck in there but no way it was going to rotate around the fork 'a few times'. Joke's on me I supposed. Wiped everything down and cleaned it up, maybe my magic fingers succeeded where my pea-brain could not 🙃 Cheerios Mike! Addendum: took the leaker apart this morning and removed the guts (I really should've replaced the seals and bushings but they're almost new so I didn't). Not much oil left inside...lo and behold I found a mangled piece of plastic wrap in the works (that seal mate would not have been able to remove that). Your suggestion to use that as a softener to protect the seal when sliding it on over the inner tube. Didn't work well for me! Thanks again for EVERYTHING you've done for the FJR community - you are the go-to guy!

I just bought a 2014 ES and this is the 1st video I watched. Thank you so much for the concise and simple version with no BS.I change my own tires and this video is excellently done and made my life that much easier by watching this. Thanks 1000 times.

What a great informative video, I'm replacing my rear tire this week and my rear brakes are just about shot. I found this video and this is excellent. Thank you for sharing

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What sync tool are you using .

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing. At what mileage did your front bearing fail?

Good video, Ive had these fitted to in the past to ZZR1400, they work very well and best upgrade to existing forks, any reason you didnt upgrade springs to Linear 10's as the FJR renowned for being "Soft" front and rear; and standard springs are progressive and tto soft? Im in UK and live close to K Tech and will be gettig this done by them to my FJR with uprated Springs, then upgrade rear shock to improve ride and match my new front end.

Thank you for showing me this wouldn’t be a massive hassle! Some bikes you have to remove the radiator to replace them. When I was ur video was 7 mins I was given hope! Then I watched it and it was confirmed an easy quick job! Now I can rest easy tonight! Thanks again!

my manual for a 03 fjr 1300 says oil level should be 100mm freom top of tube, fully compressed, and without spring.

I have a question for you. I removed my wheel and the seal around the rim spline is loose. Is that normal? Thanks. For reference the spline/ seal at 2:56

Go to pennsville New Jersey 😂😂

It was a very nice and useful video. Thank you. Nice job mike 👍🏻🙋🏻‍♂️

You didn't show them on???

How are you Mike? No new videos?

Just sent just sent the video

Maybe use a solid state relays to switch 12v to each pair of coils? That way you're not going to damage the driver circuit

Ur not showing where to adjust

Great Video! Thank you

Hi Mike, The modifications you have made to your Gen 1 FJR are extremely similar to what I’m after! (I have the exact same bike) Please could you help me with 2 things? I’d love to know what the specific bulbs are called for the instrument cluster panel and turn signals please as it would help me find them on the website you have mentioned. Additionally, where did you get the new Speedo dials? Your new ones really have improved the look of the dash! Would love your help, Sir. Kind regards, Elliot.

Nice thanks

So the rear wheel brake calliper dont need to wrench only remove out the way

Thanks for your video. Can I point out that your retightening Torque is wrong. It should be 22ft lbs, not 13 ft lbs. The rear brake master cylinder is 13 ft lbs .

You are my learning by doing man, tks!!! I have a 2018 FJR and the break pads look different. Any recommendation what pads to by?

Well done, what MOTUL oil you use ?

NEVER put 18 wheeler oil in a two wheeler.i put rotella t6 in my gen 1, started it up and it was ticking and knocking like it was gonna blow up.these bikes don't like restrictive oil filters either as they only have 4 psi oil pressure at idle and oil won't get up to the valvetrain until 2500 RPM when it makes enough pressure to push it up to the top and stop ticking.a lot of the ticking videos and threads are due to wrong oil, filter or both

Then again Thank you so much for your knowledge Great respect for you You helped me lots You are awesome!!

Thank you again another great job done 😊😊😊

Thanks for the help

Great simple video with good instructions. Thank you!

Hello, here's my problem. I reassembled the injectors on my fjr 1300 and I end up with gasoline in my exhaust. My question comes from where do you think?

One more question. When you install the forks back in the triple tree, how do you know that they are lined up or rotated correctly?

Again, thank you . Fantastic instructions. your are after teaching me louds .

After cleaning mine but NOT taking it apart, it is STILL sticking. Riding season is just about over now so I will do it right this time... Thanks a bunch!!

What year is the FJR, I have a 2007 and the front shaft has a Bolt on the left side.

Which oil filter do you use? I seem to order the wrong one all the time. thanks!

Nobody is going to take you seriously until you get rid of the Taiwan socket set.

"we're going to use a 12mm socket on an extension, place it over the bolt and press down".if someone watching this is so stupid you have to explain that to them they probably shouldn't be messing with brakes period.

Waaaaaaayyyyy too tight on the bottom bolt lucky you didn't break it again.let it bottom out and snug it good with a 3)8 drive ratchet.thats all ya gotta do.

Why would you use grease to hold the piece in tube when you could use gravity? put the tube with the bottom facing up, put the piece in the tube and slide the outer housing down over the tube all while looking at the little bolt hole to see if it's seated.

Hello Mike. Any chance you can do the same job on my bike? I have the same exact bike. Obviously for any price you name. I had the worst experiences with the local Yamaha dealer and I trust you a 1000% more. Thank you