How to Clean a Motorcycle

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Jerry Fishel with Vicious Cycles in Santa Clara, Utah for Expert Village. One thing you want to do is you want to clean off your bike, and I got this cheap brake cleaner, and you can get it at the Dollar Store or you can get some at local auto parts store. Just spray off your engine mount and your frame everywhere that the oil is dripping from, and let it drip down into a catch pan; keep your bike looking nice and clean. Take your new Harley Davidson filter. You are going to use 4 quarts of oil on this project. So open one and pour about a couple of ounces into the filter about half-way full on the filter. Pour a little bit around the edge right here, just a tiny bit, and take it with your finger and run it around the rubber grommet so you get good suction. Then you put your oil filter back on, and how you are going to put your oil filter back on is you are going to get it hand tight plus about half a turn. You don’t want to have it extremely tight; half a turn by hand. The vacuum from the engine will keep the filter on. If you over tighten it, it will be very difficult to get it off in the future. Now we’ve put the filter back on, and now what we want to do is we want to re-install our drain plug. It is also a magnetic drain plug. You will see little shavings of metal. If there are some small shavings of metal on there, that’s normal wear with the vehicle. If it has an extreme amount of metal shavings popping out all over it, then you might have a problem in the engine. Just a small amount of shavings is nothing to be afraid of. Replace your O ring, which you can buy these O rings at Harley Davidson or after market bike shops. A drain plug oil ring; it’s actually an 11105, replace it. Now the oil will stop draining; better dripping a little bit. Get under here and put your plug back in. This is another fastener that probably has a torque stick on it, but it is so low to the ground that you will never get a torque wrench in there to actually use this, so just get it on nice and tight. "