The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Maintenance
Published on 26. January 2017
256 pages
978-0-7603-5762-0 (ISBN)
Description
Popular motorcycle journalist and author Mark Zimmerman brings a comfortable, conversational tone to his easy-to-understand explanations of how motorcycles work and how to maintain them and fix them when they don't. This practical tutorial covers all brands and styles of bikes, making it a perfect companion to the owner's service manual whether you need to use the step-by-step instructions for basic maintenance techniques to wrench on your bike yourself or just want to learn enough to become an informed customer at your local motorcycle service department. This book includes more than 500 color photos and a thorough index to make it an especially user-friendly reference for home motorcycle mechanics of all skill levels.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Beverly
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
File size
29,36 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7603-5762-0 (9780760357620)
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The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Maintenance
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Mark Zimmerman is the Technical Editor of Motorcycle Cruiser magazine, and a contributor to Classic Bike Guide magazine. He lives in Danbury, Connecticut. Jeff Hackett has been photographing motorcycles for magazines, books, and calendars for 19 years. He lives outside New Haven, Connecticut.
Content
- 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
