LongGoneJohn
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I looked long and hard for a how-to on an SM610 and never found one. So Garret and I decided to do one on our own. We didn't take as many pics as we wanted, but it should help out newbs who have never done it before.
There may be easier ways to do this, but Garret and I decided to tackle my bike the way the manual says to do so. No short cuts, nothing easy, just do it the slow way.
Total time was about 2.5 hours from start to finish and neither Garret nor I had ever done a single valve check in our life.
1) Take the bodywork off the bike. You should have something like this:
2) You need to take the radiators off to do this the long/safe way. That means you need to drain them too. Good time to run distilled water / water wetter anyway. First take the drain cap off, then pull the drain plug. It's located just below the header pipe. Prepare for coolant to go *everywhere*.
3) While the coolant drained, we cleaned up the area above the valves so we could actually work! Undo all your wiring stuff and zip-tie (or safety-wire) to the top of the frame.
4) Now remove these two breather hoses (I already took one off in this pic) to make more room.
5) Pop the dust covers off the radiators by hand. Be careful, they break easy. Then remove the fan. There's a bolt on the outside edge of the radiator (2 actually, but one came off with the bodywork). Remove it
6) Now remove the bolt that bolts the fan to the frame. It also runs through the coolant resevior (which you will need to remove later!). It has a 10mm nut on one side and an allen on the left side.
There may be easier ways to do this, but Garret and I decided to tackle my bike the way the manual says to do so. No short cuts, nothing easy, just do it the slow way.
Total time was about 2.5 hours from start to finish and neither Garret nor I had ever done a single valve check in our life.
1) Take the bodywork off the bike. You should have something like this:
2) You need to take the radiators off to do this the long/safe way. That means you need to drain them too. Good time to run distilled water / water wetter anyway. First take the drain cap off, then pull the drain plug. It's located just below the header pipe. Prepare for coolant to go *everywhere*.
3) While the coolant drained, we cleaned up the area above the valves so we could actually work! Undo all your wiring stuff and zip-tie (or safety-wire) to the top of the frame.
4) Now remove these two breather hoses (I already took one off in this pic) to make more room.
5) Pop the dust covers off the radiators by hand. Be careful, they break easy. Then remove the fan. There's a bolt on the outside edge of the radiator (2 actually, but one came off with the bodywork). Remove it
6) Now remove the bolt that bolts the fan to the frame. It also runs through the coolant resevior (which you will need to remove later!). It has a 10mm nut on one side and an allen on the left side.
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...come on....someone had to say it! And ya I know you had one 
