The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Maintenance

Name: The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Maintenance
Brand: Motorbooks
Price: 38.99 EUR
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Mark Zimmerman(Autor*in)

Motorbooks (Verlag)

Erschienen am 26. Januar 2017

256 Seiten

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Inhalt

Intro
Introduction
Maintain Your Bike
Motorcycle-Specific Tools
A Place to Work
Big Ticket Tools
Hand Tools
Safety Concerns
1 Engine Design & Basic Theory
Two-Stroke Basics
Four-Stroke Basics
The Bottom End
The Top End
Valves & Cams
Engine Layout
2 Engine Cooling & Lubrication
Air & Oil Cooling
Synthetic vs. Mineral Oil
Liquid Cooling
Detergent vs. Non-Detergent Oil
Changing Coolant
Engine Oil & Lubrication
Oil Change
Lubrication: Four-Stroke Engines
3 Ignition
Basic Battery & Coil Ignitions
Adjusting Ignition Timing
Installing Spark Plugs
Maintaining Your Ignition System
4 Intake, Fuel, & Exhaust Systems
Carburetor Types
Installing an Inline Fuel Filter
Adjusting Idle Speed
Synchronizing Carburetors
How Carb Circuits Work Together
Adjusting Idle Mixture
Fuel-Injection System
Maintaining Fuel Injection
Air Boxes & Filters
Adjusting Throttle Cables
Maintaining the Fuel System
Exhaust System
Cleaning Petcock Strainers
5 Clutch
Automotive-Style Clutch
Adjusting Clutch Cable Free-Play
Adjusting the Clutch
Replacing the Clutch
Maintaining the Clutch
Improving Your Clutch
6 Transmission & Primary Drive
Constant Mesh Transmission
Basic Transmission Theory
Shifting Gears
Oil Additives
Maintaining Transmission & Primary Drive
Transmission Oil Change
7 Final Drive
Chain Drive
Chain Cleaning & Lubrication
Chain Adjustment
Belt Drive
Sprocket Replacement
Rear-Drive Oil Change
Shaft Drive
8 Suspension
How Springs Work
Conventional Fork Oil Change
Front Suspension
Cartridge-Type Fork Oil Change
Replacing Fork Seals
Rear Suspension
Suspension Tuning
Improving Suspension
Setting Ride Height
Adjusting Rebound Damping
Minimizing Stiction
Aftermarket Spring Kits & Dampers
9 Wheels & Tires
Wheels
Changing Tubes & Tires
Checking & Adjusting Wheel Alignment
Tires
Changing Tubeless Tires
Checking & Truing Spoked Wheels
Maintaining Your Wheels & Tires
Replacing Wheel Bearings & Seals
Wheel Building & Truing
Improving Wheels & Tires
Balancing Tires
10 Brakes
Drum Brakes
Replacing Brake Shoes
Disc Brake Basics
Changing Brake Fluid
Bleeding Brakes
Installing Braided-Steel Lines
Changing Brake Pads
Maintaining Brakes
Rebuilding Calipers
Improving Brakes
11 Frame & Steering
How the Frame Influences Handling
Checking Steering-Head Bearings
The Motorcycle Frame
Adjusting Steering-Head Bearings
Frame Types
Replacing Steering-Head Bearings
Rake & Trail
Checking Linkages
Checking & Adjusting Swingarm Bearings
Wheelbase
Maintaining the Chassis
Bolt Checking
Crash Damage
12 Charging System & Battery
Electrical Basics
Battery Maintenance
Installing a New Battery
How Wet-Cell Batteries Work
Quick Charge Test
Battery Breather
13 Lights, Switches, & Instruments
Light Bulbs
Checking Resistance
Basic Wiring Technique
Basic Circuit Facts
Maintaining Electrics
Electrical Dos & Don'ts
Troubleshooting Electrical System
Checking Sending Units
14 Cleaning, Setting-Up, & Storage
Washing, Waxing, & Polishing
Saturday Morning Bath
Spray Painting
Paint Basics
Setting-Up the Bike to Fit You
Touching-Up Paint
Winter Storage
Storage Procedure
15 Troubleshooting
What to Do When Bike Won't Start
Go With the Flow
Checking For Spark
Checking Compression
Running Problems
Removing a Seized Bolt
Basic How-To
Removing a Stuck Screw
Heli-Coil Installation
Lubing a Control Cable
Hand-Packing a Bearing
Applying Gasket Sealer
Removing & Replacing a Seal
Changing Hydraulic Fluid
Appendix: Tools
Appendix: Building a Library
Index
About the Author

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