Oil, oil filter and clutch filter change

Use a 12mm hex socket wrench to unscrew the pan bolt. Avoid the hot exhaust pipe by using an extender. Take care not to loss the screw washer.

Oil filter removed with a chain wrench. More residual oil drained out.

Cheap chain wrench. 

Oil the rubber seal before replace it back.

Remove the 2 8mm screws holding the clutch filter plate. Take care of the spring.

 Identify the outside of the clutch filter. Oil the rubber seal of the  inner side .

Old and new clutch filter.

Clutch filter plate. Check the rubber seal.

DCT oil change needs approx 4L 10W-40 engine oil. Check the dipstick level when the bike is in central stand.

Recommended oil replacement volume is 3.4L. Dipstick should be just seat on the socket without screwing in , when doing measuremnt .

NC700 Givi Crash Bar Installation

Left Crash Bar : Remove the 17mm bolt.U need a lot of muscle power or any extension bar.

Then the second engine 17mm bolt

Partially fasten the engine bolt with the crash bar

The left bar installation is more tricky. 

Thee horn bracket is obstructing the 17mm engine bolt and needed to be removed first. 

Remove the 17mm engine bolt

 Install the crashbar and with attention to the spacer on insertion of the bolt.

Remove the engine bolt 17mm

The hose bracket is obstruction the crash bar and has to be removed.

 The engine bolt spacer has to be hold in place with some paper.

Fasten the lower crash bar inner bolt. U need a small spanner.

Why Casio Protrek water proof fails

These are the tiny O-rings in the side buttons.

These are the O-rings on the chasis. They are subject to dirt built up. Once the O-ring lubricant dries up or pressure difference is great and sudden, leaks will happen.

Replacing Handlebar

 Loosen the 4 bolts , hex size 12mm 

Remove the brake lever light switch in front of the right brake reservoir

Right side brake reservoir, 2 hex size 8mm

 Unscrew the 2 philips screw for the right control hub

 Left side mirror Hub.

 Left rubber grip loosen with a chopstick and some silicon spray

 The vibration dampener weight is locked with 2 hook and pressed with a screw driver to release it.

 The whole dampener is pulled out and replaced.

The vertical alignment is based on the left mirror which should be vertical in the base.

Do not over tighten the  12mm bolts as the raiser is made of aluminium.

This job takes 30-45 mins. The dealer charge me HKD 400  for this and it is a fair price.

New GPS anti theft tracking

This new module has vibration alarm function that it will send a call to a designated cell phone and sends a sms with GPS coordinates once it detects a change after the vibration. This one works very well and reliable.

NC700X DCT Acceleration 0-100kph in 5.6 sec

Not bad as  a commuter.

Waterproof 5.5" smartphone case

The smartphone screen can be used even under the transparent cover. It can still be charged with the micro USB plugged in.

Silencing sony as15

Cut the red wire and make it stealth.

Vibration sensing gps tracker

Now upgraded to vibration sensing gps tracking system. The limitation of this version is the gps coordinates are not in google earth format. However, the vibration reporting is extremely useful as the tracker will first give your preset phone a remote call. If no response, it will then send you the new gps coordinate by sms.

This tracker system can also be internet server base but your need to purchase a gprs data sim card which cost > $298 hkd valid for 6 months. A local prepaid sim is only $98 valid for 6 months and no server charge cost. For anti-theft purpose, this is a good deal. For spying someone, gprs data will cost less sms.

NC700 Gas Consumption

23-26 km/L is a very realistic gas consumption calculated from real usage over past 6 months. Mostly as a commuter with 30% city and 70% highway. Average speed around 70 kph and I run mostly 80% in S mode. D mode has better fuel economy but no quite significant , I would say the gas efficiency in D mode (~2,500 rpm)  will be around 0.5 km/L more than in S mode (~3,000 rpm)

NC700 U6 LED Spot light

Each rated 0.6A x 12 V= 7.2W. Total 14.4W and LED is Cree U6 with 700 lumen. The reflector aims at far distance and the brightness is as much as the HID 50W in daylight.

NC700 Stock Battery

Made in Japan. Good quality !

Water temperature gauge

Finally installed a self powered temp gauge. Battery life good for a year. Range 0-120 deg cel. Sampling every 5 sec. Accuracy +/- 1 deg C. Gauge has waterproof done with silicon.

 

No hose cutting. Just CA a modified RC propeller (5mm shaft to hold the thermistor sensor) with bigger surface area. Using an infrared temp. gun and check the temperature difference is only 1 deg celcius from that of the radiator.

Quite satisfy with this. At around 90 deg cel., the radiator fan will switch on.

I was stupid to CA the sensor to the radiator water out side. I guess the radiator coolant in side is more appropriate. The tempeature on each side has a difference of ~10 deg cel.

Carbon fiber hugger

Very tough and light hugger. I love yhe carbon fiber pattern very much.

CB400 Hugger

CB400 Hugger , repainted to Metallic Silver

Now donated to new biker

Dead Battery

 

 

So stupid that I forgot to switch off the alert indicator flash and run dry my battery. Luckily I installed a voltage indicator as that I notice the battery is low.

Connect to a 4s 2200mAh model lipo battery and carefully clamp the current which reads around 25A.

Immediately push start the engine and disconnect the lipo battery immeiately. Now the battery is charging up and reads 12.8V

 

P.S. An old 3s 12.6V lipo battery cannot start the engine. Though it can charge up the bike battery from 8V to 10.6V at 3-4A, which is slow but safer. Since I am in a hurry, I start up the bike with a 4s lipo (pre charged to 16.2V as emergency starteing battery) .