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Changing filters
We had a pretty day in south west Missouri yesterday. Sadly, I didn't get home from work in time to get a ride in so I decided to do a filter change while it was warm. Temps are supposed to drop again, and I don't want to take a chace on cracking the plastic or breaking off any fittings in the cold.
The air filter on a 1500 is pretty easy Had that done in about an hour, including a bathroom and smoke break. I haven't changed the sub, cruise or air compressor filters since we got this trike, and I don't know if the previous owner had either. Pull out the factory manual and delve into it.
Now whoever designed this seems to have had shop hours in mind, as most of the job was playing with tupperware. Most of the front end plastic came off, I didn't have t remove the windshiels or front cowl, but that is about all that stayed on, The sub filter pretty much disintergrated as I took it out of it's housing, glad I bought new instead of trying to clean and replace. The cruise filter was something else to get to. Had to take the reverse lever off, don't think it had been apart in 13 years.
Big cheater bar on the T handle allen wrench, hitting it with a dead-blow hammer and wishing I had a compresser and an impact wrench.
Finally got it off, the nice straight lines along the ridges of the allen wernch are now spirals.
I surmise it have been a whole since the reverse handle hadle had been off.
Took off the plastic and got the cruise element out. Looked and felt brand new. Replaced it anyway, I had a new one and there was too mch work involved not to use it. Found a few screws that connect the front fairing pieces to the side panels missing. Had never been into it this far, so the PO or a shop somewhere failed to replace them. Found some in the metric jar that were the right pitch and size,had to cut themdown with a Dremel and ran them through a die to clean up the threads.
So while I'm in there.... might as well check the air compresser filter and dessicant. Changed filter, dried out the dessicant in the oven. Re-ran some wires to the power port in the left fairing pocket, cleaned up the line that powers the GPS and cleaned stuff up that won't see the light of day for another few years.
Put the plastic back on, the toughest part was aligning the air control levers so they would open and close the lower vents for fresh or hot air.
Evrything back where it belongs, no extra parts, and it only (!?) took 4 1/2 hours, most of that was dealing with the plastic.
