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kd80
18-06-10, 06:09 PM
:smt039 Only me again, I've become a regular poster on here. :oops:

I am considering servicing my bike tomorrow (weather permitting). Does/has anyone on here ever done this before? I understand that I won't get the stamp in my book, which is a small price I'll have to pay. But after recently ringing my Suzuki dealer (Motts, Basingstoke) - they told me they wanted £425 for a full service. That was without carb tuning! The manual says to do that at 7,500. I thought I was being a bit ripped off here.

I kindly told them where to stick it. They are know for being a rip-off anyway :smt076. So I thought I would photocopy the 600 to 15,000 mile service manual from my Haynes :-D - far easier than using the hardback book, and saves me getting the original grubby from oily hands!

I want to know whether, if I follow this guide, will I get everything that the garage will do (i.e. am I going to replicate the full, professional service if I follow this guide), minus the stamp and the mechanic's experience (although from what I hear, the latter isn't very much). Aside from that, with what tools I will need to do the job? The expensive part :confused:

I have a fairly decent toolbox (bought a pre-kitted one from Argos to do the job). Which comes with various screwdrivers, socket (inc. a spark-plug socket), spanners. I am going to make a DIY vacuum gauge :D since I hear they work pretty accurately. I have grease, but I guess I need chain oil, engine oil and a filter, spark plugs... anything else :confused:

Cheers
Kelvin

maviczap
18-06-10, 06:13 PM
, socket (inc. a spark-plug socket)

You'll need the OEM spark plug spanner from the tool kit, especially for the front cyclinder. Everything is relatively easy.

kd80
18-06-10, 06:22 PM
Great - thanks! Will the spark-plug socket not be enough for sparkplug removal?

Included in this toolbox is a very weird tool. It seems like a measuring device. It is a piece of metal that is an inch or two long (it looks like a nose strip!) and has about five tabs with mm measurements on it. But I cannot tell its use (since it doesn't seem to "fit" anywhere)...

kd80
18-06-10, 06:33 PM
Another note on the side, my idle speed adjuster seems jammed/seized. Is there anything I can spray to loosen it up? I am not sure what was on the black know, but mine is all chewed up and it looks like a flat headed screwdriver done it :(. I can't seem to get enough leverage to turn it with my fingers, since the cable slides around also :S

Bibio
18-06-10, 06:34 PM
yes you will save a wad of cash but may do more damage then good if you have never spannerd before e.g. crossed threads on spark plugs and oil filter blagh blagh blagh.

best to find someone on the org that is local to you and ask nicely if they will show you.

the tool sounds like a spark plug feeler gauge.

maviczap
18-06-10, 06:37 PM
Great - thanks! Will the spark-plug socket not be enough for sparkplug removal?

The one in your set will probably be for a car. The Sv plugs are tiny, and the OEM spanner hinges in the middle, which helps getting it under the raidiator

Red Herring
18-06-10, 06:45 PM
What you really need is someone who has done a few before to take you through the first time. Where are you and the bike, Basingstoke isn't near Ashford, Kent?

kd80
18-06-10, 08:03 PM
What you really need is someone who has done a few before to take you through the first time. Where are you and the bike, Basingstoke isn't near Ashford, Kent?

No - I'm temporarily in Basingstoke until end of August; I'm living here until I complete my placement year/year in industry for Uni. Then I shall be back in Ashford, Kent.

So if someone local *could* show me, it will be much appreciated! Anyone who is close to either Basingstoke, Hants, or Ashford, Kent...

Cheers!