by crfsonly » Fri Nov 04, 2011 5:59 pm
How-To: Break In Procedure
There are lots of break in procedures...this is the procedure we recommend:
1. Make sure you have clean and correct amount of oil, clean oil filter, clean and oiled air filter, coolant topped off.
2. You will conduct three 15 minute break in cycles as follows:
a. Start the bike and let it idle to operating temperature. Do not let it overheat. Getting it to operating temperature will not take long.
b. Once at operating temperature, ride the bike focusing on creating as much compression as possible. Vary the RPM's, don't rev it to the limiter (70-80% max), don't lug the motor. The best way to generate the most compression is riding up and down hills. When coming down the hill ride a gear lower and let the engine's compression braking rev the motor up.
c. Let the motor cool down for at least 15 minutes
d. Repeat for two more cylces of ride then cool down.
3. Change the oil and oil filter. Check coolant level. If there was any fluid loss you must find out what caused this loss before continuing to use this motor.
4. Your bike is now ready to ride it like you stoled it!
Ken
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crfsonly on Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:53 pm, edited 2 times in total.