M8 Motorcycle Safety Check

Okay, we're coming full circle here. All we got to do is put the main fuse in and then this left-hand side cover. And we'll probably put the seat on and keep on rolling here, so pretty simple. Main fuse plugs in. You wanna make sure your... This bikes keyless, no key, so make sure your emergency shutoff switch is in the off position. Go ahead and plug your main fuse in. Now this cover you wanna put in so the Velcro's facing up 'cause you got your little Velcro pad here. They got to meet up, so pretty simple. You hear it click. Both the little tangs on both sides are clipped. And then this little plastic thing has to go in it's little valley way there. Take it and just kind of line it up. Feel it go in. Got your Velcro here. Good enough. This is your power port lead. If you're bringing it into the Hardy dealer, that's where they plug in their digital tech. That thing was just kind of laying in here. It didn't have anything Velcroed or nothing, so you can kind of creatively tuck it into here. Okay, pretty straight forward. Got your two grommets. Just got to line them up with the posts, pretty simple. And of course Harley's got a spec for that. 24 to 36 inch-pounds. We'll put her right in the middle. There we go. Okay, while I got her here, I'm just going to go ahead and pop the seat back on real quick. And we'll get that taken care of. Pretty straight forward, you got a little tang here. It goes right under here. And they got a wire harness right in a way here so just kind of watch, come in. Got the little knurled thumb wheel here, you just tighten them down. Passenger seat, same thing. Got your little slots. Go right on your little pegs. And what's you're trying not to do is scratch your rear fender. That's why I always kind of guide my screwdriver down with my fingers. Snug that up 'cause you don't wanna scratch your rear fender. You look at motorcycles that come in, they always got all these big scratch marks right around the rear fender. It's from the seat, from the screwdriver, from the screw, from people being careless. Don't be that guy. Okay, we're getting close. We're gonna end up- We're gonna drop it down. We're gonna do the electrical inspection safety check. We're gonna run the bike, and we're gonna double check the tranny oil and the motor oil levels. Okay, we got a little heat in the motor. We got the oil filter filled full of oil. I watched the little oil light went out. You kind of wanna check that. And now what we're gonna do is I'm gonna start with the transmission oil level. Go ahead and pop the dip stick out here. As you read in your manual, it needs to be checked on the jiffy stand. This is why we've got all the side covers off 'cause it's not easy access. Now put the dipstick back in and just thread it until it bottoms out. Back it out. Take a reading Looking at that. Actually it looks like we could add a couple of ounces maybe. All right. Okay. Okay, so we added a couple more ounces there, just see where we're at. Okay, now we're looking good. I'm gonna go ahead and install this, and then there's a torque spec on the dipstick here. Kind of comes back to how hot the motorcycle is. If you've got this thing piping hot and you let it drip dry overnight, it's gonna vary on how much you put for motor oil and tranny oil, and primary oil. Snug her up with your three-inch ratchet. Harley's saying 25 inch-pounds to 75. We're just gonna put her right in the middle. And obviously on older high mileage bikes, you put a new O-ring on that dip stick too just so you don't get any water getting into the gearbox. Okay, let's take a peak at the motor oil level. See where we're at. Now we know it's probably gonna be low because Harley says just for the baseline, put four quarts in, run it and check it. So let's see where we're at. Got to wipe it off. Reinstall it on the side stand or jiffy stand. And it's low, so we're gonna go ahead and add probably a half a quart, and I'm gonna check it again. Just kind of sneak up on it. A little bit more than a half quart there. Okay, so you pretty much got it right on the perfect line. I've got about 4.7 quarts in there. Like I said, it really depends on how hot the motorcycle is. I'm gonna go ahead, stick that back in. It's really nice that they increased the volume on this motorcycle 'cause having that much oil in a air-cooled bike is really gonna help this motor live a lot longer. So let's go ahead, and we're gonna put that little plastic sleeve back in and put the side cover back on. Okay, now I was talking about that battery strap. Really all I'm gonna do is kind of tuck it up behind these wires here. Get that out of the way. Then this has to go down in a slot there. So you just kind of line that up. That goes down in there. And actually, you know what? I got to get this battery cable or strap out of the way because if you're looking at it, this has to go into a little clipped area, this top part has to go into a clipped area, and of course our little bottom one first. So strap out of the way. That goes in, lower one, upper one. And this upper one barely... It's barely staying in. And it's really irrelevant because this whole piece is gonna encapsulate it on this rim. So one peg on this side. Go ahead and line it up. Got the two bolts. See how our plastic cover's underneath it there? Two screws. 24 to 36, same as the other side, inch bones. Okay, we're closing in on the finish here. Let's go ahead and redo the electrical check real quick. And that's kind of just double-checking your work on the motorcycle here. So basically all we're gonna do is power it up. You can check your dash. We'll start with the right hand turn signal. Working here, I can see it's working there. Rear, left, same thing. Dash bulb's working, front, rear. Brake light, front, rear. High beam, high beam indicator's working. Spots, everybody's home there. And how about the horn, yep. Four ways, we're good on the dash, good up front. Good on the back. Okay, and we know the motorcycle starts and runs so. Pretty much getting her wrapped up. We'll go out, test ride the bike. Obviously you were messing with the brakes. You got to double check all that stuff. Okay, brake light's good. Looks like everything electrical is working on the motorcycle so. Okay, service on the M-8's pretty much done. Probably kind of wipe the bike up, get all your fingerprints off. Go take it for a ride. You wanna feel the brakes, front and rear. Make sure everything feels cool when you ride the motorcycle. As you can see, you watched this video. Service on your motorcycle, I mean, routine maintenance, it's pretty simple. You just break it down into the steps, and it's something you can do yourself. Obviously you're gonna save thousands of dollars really if you add up all these 1K, 5K, 10K, so on, and you got the factory manual. You'll be taking the wheels off, getting your tires mounted, pretty much tackling everything you can. I mean, just kind of keep taking your time. You don't wanna put yourself in a situation where you have to have it done by the weekend to go for a ride, plan ahead. You got your notes on the tools you need. You got the notes on the parts you're gonna need. That way, you don't put yourself in a situation where all of a sudden now I need this part. Nobody stocks it, and then you got your back against the wall, so plan ahead. I wanna thank you for watching the video. We wanna hear from you, you're the customer. You sent us the email on this project. We listened, and that's what we like. We wanna hear from you guys. So once again, I'm Mike Roen, and thanks for watching. And as usual, rent safe.