The music you been playing is perfect. Long as it don't dominate and distract you from hearing what you have to say. You been doing a fantastic job with the music. Great job on bleeding the brakes.
desert may have helped keep out any water in the system? I have seen a lot worse looking fluid up north here in just a couple of years between changing. Great job!
I do agree! Our yearly average humidity during the daytime is around 30% so I agree completely with you. The brake fluid cannot absorb water if there is none! Haha!
www.goldwingowners.com/threads/pictures-or-instructions-for-takedown-and-put-back-together-1997-gl1500.128467/ if you scroll to the bottom of that page there is a shop manual picture of it!
Mirror image of what I did to bleed my rear brakes too,only my rear bleeder valve was the one that was plugged up with gunk, that was more of a chore putting it back in than removing it,Honda needed that access hole about twice as big. As far as what tunes for background- I can take it or leave it,actually prefer voice over with text showing part # wrench,filter size used or even a little text humor. So much music is copyrighted that unless you happen to be your own musician, it ain’t worth the YT police censoring your content.
I have heard of people taking a hole saw to their saddlebag to make it bigger haha. And I would consider myself lucky it was the front one gummed up and not the back! Not even much room to get a hose to catch the brake fluid on it. And that's a good idea adding text, hadn't thought of that. Thank you! And I actually pay a company that has a music library to use it so I better not get hit by the copyright stuff haha. Thanks for the comment Mr Innovator!
One of the things that bothers me about your efforts is the lack of attention detail on the bikes overall condition. I just can't stand to see the desert all inside the bike under the panels and plastics. How can a great job be accomplished when half of the dirt in Texas is under the plastics and panels? If i were to take my goldwing to the dealer and got back from the dealer the bike that you show in these videos, I'd be suspect of the quality of the dealers work. How do you expect to ensure that the parts rebuilt or corrected aren't contaminated by all of the dirt that you've left on the bike? I believe you said that some parts would get ruined by water on them. I have owned Honda's, Yamaha's and still do. I have never had one motorcycle made by those two manufactures or the BMW that I have ever fail because it got wet. I believe the designers of those motorcycles know without a doubt that their bakes will be rained on, washed and even ridden and then washed after riding. I'm at a loss for such comments and beliefs. Do you think that an airplane carrying people or weapons of war will somehow break or degrade because it gets wet? Motorcycles do not fail just because you put soap and water on them muchless rain falling from the sky lands on them. If they do then, the parts affected are subpar and were designed to fail. The pressure washer you used to wash the bird poop off the plastics would never harm anything under the plastics as designed by the engineers at Honda. Gawd, I hat seeing all that dirt under the panels.
Hey Scott, thanks for the comment. My reference to pieces getting damaged by water was in reference to using a pressure washer underneath the fairings. This bike has been neglected for many years, and with it being stored outside all of that time I cannot positively state that every single electrical connection, every single gasket, every single hose, and every single wire would tolerate being sprayed down with water. This motorcycle lived in the elements, so in my mind some degradation (from UV exposure, to water corrosion, to simple oxidation) has occurred. It was not garage kept, was not even under a carport for most of the time. I cannot accurately gauge the level of degradation, so I am "Playing it safe" here by not touching pieces that are not broken. Another aspect of the equation is my time. The customer did not want to pay for me to detail the motorcycle with the fairings off. My personal GL1500 I plan on it, but this is a very hands on process without just spraying water everywhere. I try to provide the highest quality work to the customers, but if they tell me they don't want to pay for a service I will not do the service. Would I like to? Of course. But at the end of the day if I spend half a day detailing the dirt out from underneath the fairings, that half a day that I missed out working on something else. Again, thank you for your comment, if you have any other questions or anything else let me know. Have a good day Scott!
The music you been playing is perfect. Long as it don't dominate and distract you from hearing what you have to say. You been doing a fantastic job with the music. Great job on bleeding the brakes.
Thank you very much for the comment and compliment William! Appreciate it!
Thanks! Enjoy the videos. They are informative and entertaining.
Thank you very much!!! You didn't have to do that!
Great vid !! Got to be done ! 😊
Thanks very much sluggy!
I do have to rebuild mine but great video!
Thank you very much!!
desert may have helped keep out any water in the system? I have seen a lot worse looking fluid up north here in just a couple of years between changing. Great job!
I do agree! Our yearly average humidity during the daytime is around 30% so I agree completely with you. The brake fluid cannot absorb water if there is none! Haha!
Is it necessary to remove the heat shields to bleed the brakes? or was that in case you had to rebuild the rear master cyl.
No sir it is not, it was to visualize the rear master cylinder!
No music is best
Thank you!
Would you happen to have a way of showing me how that bottom heat shield goes in?
A pic maybe....
www.goldwingowners.com/threads/pictures-or-instructions-for-takedown-and-put-back-together-1997-gl1500.128467/
if you scroll to the bottom of that page there is a shop manual picture of it!
Mirror image of what I did to bleed my rear brakes too,only my rear bleeder valve was the one that was plugged up with gunk, that was more of a chore putting it back in than removing it,Honda needed that access hole about twice as big. As far as what tunes for background- I can take it or leave it,actually prefer voice over with text showing part # wrench,filter size used or even a little text humor. So much music is copyrighted that unless you happen to be your own musician, it ain’t worth the YT police censoring your content.
I have heard of people taking a hole saw to their saddlebag to make it bigger haha. And I would consider myself lucky it was the front one gummed up and not the back! Not even much room to get a hose to catch the brake fluid on it. And that's a good idea adding text, hadn't thought of that. Thank you! And I actually pay a company that has a music library to use it so I better not get hit by the copyright stuff haha. Thanks for the comment Mr Innovator!
Dont use Teflon tape on bleeder screws
You can! This is the yellow teflon tape which is resisant to being dissolved. It is a little thicker than the traditional stuff in the blue package
One of the things that bothers me about your efforts is the lack of attention detail on the bikes overall condition. I just can't stand to see the desert all inside the bike under the panels and plastics. How can a great job be accomplished when half of the dirt in Texas is under the plastics and panels? If i were to take my goldwing to the dealer and got back from the dealer the bike that you show in these videos, I'd be suspect of the quality of the dealers work. How do you expect to ensure that the parts rebuilt or corrected aren't contaminated by all of the dirt that you've left on the bike? I believe you said that some parts would get ruined by water on them. I have owned Honda's, Yamaha's and still do. I have never had one motorcycle made by those two manufactures or the BMW that I have ever fail because it got wet. I believe the designers of those motorcycles know without a doubt that their bakes will be rained on, washed and even ridden and then washed after riding. I'm at a loss for such comments and beliefs. Do you think that an airplane carrying people or weapons of war will somehow break or degrade because it gets wet? Motorcycles do not fail just because you put soap and water on them muchless rain falling from the sky lands on them. If they do then, the parts affected are subpar and were designed to fail. The pressure washer you used to wash the bird poop off the plastics would never harm anything under the plastics as designed by the engineers at Honda. Gawd, I hat seeing all that dirt under the panels.
Hey Scott, thanks for the comment. My reference to pieces getting damaged by water was in reference to using a pressure washer underneath the fairings. This bike has been neglected for many years, and with it being stored outside all of that time I cannot positively state that every single electrical connection, every single gasket, every single hose, and every single wire would tolerate being sprayed down with water. This motorcycle lived in the elements, so in my mind some degradation (from UV exposure, to water corrosion, to simple oxidation) has occurred. It was not garage kept, was not even under a carport for most of the time. I cannot accurately gauge the level of degradation, so I am "Playing it safe" here by not touching pieces that are not broken. Another aspect of the equation is my time. The customer did not want to pay for me to detail the motorcycle with the fairings off. My personal GL1500 I plan on it, but this is a very hands on process without just spraying water everywhere. I try to provide the highest quality work to the customers, but if they tell me they don't want to pay for a service I will not do the service. Would I like to? Of course. But at the end of the day if I spend half a day detailing the dirt out from underneath the fairings, that half a day that I missed out working on something else. Again, thank you for your comment, if you have any other questions or anything else let me know. Have a good day Scott!