{"id":74292,"date":"2011-04-18T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=74292"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:48","slug":"gsxr1100-m-n-oil-cooled-maintenance-front-bearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20110418\/everyday-events\/gsxr1100-m-n-oil-cooled-maintenance-front-bearing","title":{"rendered":"GSX-R1100 M\/N Oil-cooled maintenance \/ Front \/ Bearing maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all, oil-cooled maintenance on the GSX-R is easy!<br \/>\nThe most challenging is the Bandit 1200.<br \/>\n1) There are lots of supplementary parts on top of the head cover.<br \/>\n2) To synchronize the carburetors, you have to remove the vacuum cap, which means you can&#8217;t avoid pulling the carbs out of the intake manifold.<br \/>\n3) To remove the engine damper, you have to &#8220;shift the oil cooler&#8221; and &#8220;loosen the front engine hanger joint.&#8221;<br \/>\nMost bikes have an engine guard attached.<br \/>\nBut since we&#8217;re used to the Bandit 1200 anyway, everything else goes smooth as butter \u2605<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62349396_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>For some reason, one is in standard spec <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62349396_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The damper is a bit on the stiff side <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62349396_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The engine damper showed no severe wear \u2605<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62349396_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>This is after adjustment \u2605 It was messed up like crazy, but I accidentally deleted the photo!<br \/>\nThe throttle is heavy too, so we need to address that as well \u2605<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all for today!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all, oil-cooled maintenance on the GSX-R is easy! The most challenging is the Bandit 1200. 1) There are lots of supplementary parts on top of the head cover. 2) To synchronize the carburetors, you have to remove the vacuum cap, which means you can&#8217;t avoid pulling the carbs out of the intake manifold. 3) To remove the engine damper, you have to &#8220;shift the oil cooler&#8221; and &#8220;loosen the front engine hanger joint.&#8221; Most bikes have an engine guard attached. But since we&#8217;re used to the Bandit 1200 anyway, everything else goes smooth as butter \u2605&nbsp; &nbsp;For some reason, one is in standard spec &nbsp; &nbsp;The damper is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[91,55],"class_list":["post-74292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gv73a","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}