Your actually supposed to just loosen right side exhaust strap, remove nut behind right foot peg,slide off exhaust. No need to even touch the shocks. Just making more work for yourself. Also, deflate tire,no need to remove license plate. The condition of the rear wheel also means it has a bad final drive seal. ☺ There is a lot of secret service tech tricks for this bike that the service manual won't even tell you. Especially for carburetor work and charging system repair. Nice to see people still riding the vn750. I have one in near showroom condition. Their a fun bike if you know how to keep them maintained.
I’ll use that method when I change the tires in a few months. Thank you. Since I have a flat jack to lift the bike, I didn’t need to remove the plate I just included it since i saw it in the write up. Thanks for the heads up on the final drive seal. I’ll keep an eye on the fluid and change it in couple months when I put new tires on it. Thank you for watching and feel free to give me any other tips you might have.
I agree. DON'T push down like that on the exhaust, even with the clamp loose. The pipe that goes into the expansion chamber under the bike (what some call the "goats belly") is welded onto the muffler, and the weld will break VERY easily. I even had it happen to me, and I was being VERY careful, just barely wiggling it to get the muffler off. Sometimes when removing a muffler, you will find that the graphite bushing is damaged beyond use. They are still available, but now cost $30 apiece. Back when they were half that price, I bought 6 of them. I still have 5. I have owned three Vulcan 750s, a '93 and an '02 both bought brand new, and now have a '97 that I bought used after a major engine failure (broken cam chain) in my '02 at 108,000 miles. I had replaced the defective automatic cam chain tensioners with TOC manual tensioners at around 10,000 miles. I have over 200,000 miles on Vulcan 750s, and pretty much know all of those secret tricks.
Great vid! Great stuff all around. Love it! Thanks for the vid and sharing so much info!
It’s my first time doing a how to type video. I did a lot of work to make sure I didn’t miss anything
Awesomeness!!
Thank you
Your actually supposed to just loosen right side exhaust strap, remove nut behind right foot peg,slide off exhaust. No need to even touch the shocks. Just making more work for yourself. Also, deflate tire,no need to remove license plate. The condition of the rear wheel also means it has a bad final drive seal. ☺ There is a lot of secret service tech tricks for this bike that the service manual won't even tell you. Especially for carburetor work and charging system repair. Nice to see people still riding the vn750. I have one in near showroom condition. Their a fun bike if you know how to keep them maintained.
I’ll use that method when I change the tires in a few months. Thank you. Since I have a flat jack to lift the bike, I didn’t need to remove the plate I just included it since i saw it in the write up. Thanks for the heads up on the final drive seal. I’ll keep an eye on the fluid and change it in couple months when I put new tires on it. Thank you for watching and feel free to give me any other tips you might have.
I agree. DON'T push down like that on the exhaust, even with the clamp loose. The pipe that goes into the expansion chamber under the bike (what some call the "goats belly") is welded onto the muffler, and the weld will break VERY easily. I even had it happen to me, and I was being VERY careful, just barely wiggling it to get the muffler off. Sometimes when removing a muffler, you will find that the graphite bushing is damaged beyond use. They are still available, but now cost $30 apiece. Back when they were half that price, I bought 6 of them. I still have 5. I have owned three Vulcan 750s, a '93 and an '02 both bought brand new, and now have a '97 that I bought used after a major engine failure (broken cam chain) in my '02 at 108,000 miles. I had replaced the defective automatic cam chain tensioners with TOC manual tensioners at around 10,000 miles. I have over 200,000 miles on Vulcan 750s, and pretty much know all of those secret tricks.
@geraldscott4302 That’s great to know. Thank you
Good one !
Thank you