Today I did the services that should of been done by 32k on my 08. Went pretty much as expected.
Flushed and replaced clutch fluid. The clutch fluid was so bad the lens on the sight glass was fogged. Got it mostly cleaned and the new fluid finished the job.
Flushed and replaced front brake fluid. The front brake fluid didn't look all that bad, but while I was at it, just did it, now I know where I am.
Flushed and replaced the rear brake fluid. Rears where harder to flush, might be because they are automobile calipers. The rear fluid looked pretty good, but again, now I know when it was done.
Drained, flushed and refilled the coolant. I didn't remove the coolant overflow, as per shop manual, I just sucked the coolant out with a vacuum pump bleeder. After draining everything, I filled with fresh Honda coolant, started bike, let it run to normal temp, and drained it again. Then refilled with fresh Honda coolant. The coolant was like pea green and I know the Honda fluid is blue, so it may have been done before.
Did an oil change and filter change. Oil looked a little dirty to me, again not sure when it was done last, I know now ...
Drained and filled rear differential and lubed the drive shaft zirc. On the Champion Kit is there just the one zirc on the universal joint? I couldn't see any others.
Cleaned all switches with contact cleaner. After seeing what was in the clutch switch, figured it couldn't hurt.Checked all brake pads, all lights, fork seals, head bearings, and any fasteners I saw. I had the valves checked by Honda right after I bought it at 31, 473 miles, so I didn't check them. I also have a new air cleaner element, but I decided to do that another day. It started getting a tad hot and didn't want to start the plastic removal. Another day.
I used a harbor freight hand cranked vacuum pump. My electric one is MIA, not sure where I put it. Worked very well. I did use a tiny hose clamp to ensure the hose stayed on the bleed screws and a dollop of grease around the bleed screw threads to ensure no leakage. Like I said, worked well and now both front and rear brakes are rock solid, no sponginess, there wasn't much before, but, none now.
The clutch seems way smoother now, again, the clutch fluid was pretty cloudy.
After all the work, I did about 20 mile test ride. Seems to me that I would of had the fans come on before at some of the stops. Might of just been a little cooler today, but, didn't seem like it.
I asked Honda for a quote to do the maintenance, (getting lazy in my old age) and with the air cleaner it would of been about $700.00. My buddy has an 06 Gold Wing (2 Wheeler) and has 31k on it. He didn't do the 24 or 32k maintenance (too expensive). He wanted to learn how to do it, so I said if he helped, I'd teach him. My parts price was $163, includes the extra gallon of coolant and the air cleaner. So I saved $537, and taught a friend how to do the same ... .
I also purchased a cd shop manual for $7.95 (this is probably pirated, it is the Honda Manual in pdf format) from flea bay, but that is a cost for every bike. Kinda liked it being digital, printed the pages I need to teach him and when brake/clutch/cooling/differential fluid got on them, just tossed them.
All in all, good day of maintenance. The bike was in decent shape, now I know it's in good shape. And ready for a possible run to Texas ...