Gadgetory

so we're going to change a tire on that V star 1100 I have it propped ups using a car jack and some blocks underneath pretty straightforward use that to make sure it's balanced the front two blocks are just under the frame to the seat off pretty simple my seat only had the one pull back here I also just released the back fender by taking off the two saddle bag holders and then there was two screws right here as well so now I can get the back tire off by lifting up the back fender otherwise you can see that there is no way that that back tire is going out of there hot zone so now I just have to disconnect the back tire so I just took off the brake the caliper basically there's two bolts right here that was holding it on they were a 12 millimeter I believe anyway so I just took those two bolts out and just kind of slid this out if you look at it you can see that my brake pads all seem to be replaced there is almost no pad at all on them so I'll be doing that in the near future as well but now that I have that out I just need to take these two bolts out here and then loosen up the back axle so the reason you take off the back the caliper is because when you take the tire when you're sliding it out it won't slide out all the way if the if the calipers still attached to the rotor right here so you pull it out and then make sure you tie it up as well out of the way because when you pull the back tire out it needs to be supported so it doesn't automatically like fallen any ink on the on the brake lines because that's delving into a whole nother situation you don't want to work with all right so I got a little bit ahead of myself let me explain what happened so take the back tire off there's a few bolts you got a release so this is where the the final drive went the axle went through here there was four bolts around this mounting plate that I took off then two bolts here obviously so those are those two bolts and these are the four bolts around that mounting plate the axle was pretty simple I believe it was a 22 millimeter she's got the the nut in the washer that came off with it pretty straightforward and then on the other side it just had the Cal probably so I got off it had this bowl right here and then these two that hold the axle in place on this side and so you can kind of see it has this arm that was connected to the bolt to the top then the caliper goes on most - so those are the parts that I've taken off so far so the final drive just kind of pops right off the top of that you don't need to loosen up any bolts or anything and that's the part you got to take to the guy to get the tire changed off so I just have it propped up on two blocks right now so I'm not damaging the rotor on the other side just take off all the loose pieces take it into him he'll switch the tire out put it all back together and throw it back on the bike when you do put it all back together again make sure those times are they're greased up and then also at the end of this other shaft I'll just put a little bit of grease on before you stick it back in so to help me out tomorrow I made sure to put all the parts in the same order that they were on the bike so I got that arm right there the end of the axle I got the different bearings inside and I got the final drive just all kind of lined up exactly where they were on the bike so to make things easier and then with this I also put like all the nuts and pulled some things that I took off back in there same spots so I don't have to worry about losing them figuring out where they go tomorrow when I get the wheel done