Manuals! Get yer Free Manuals here!
 

Since a lot of you sorry bastards are too cheap to buy your own manuals, or too lazy to acquire my ninja-esque Googleing skills, I've decided to share this little gem:

http://www.carlsalter.com/motorcycle-manuals.asp

Lots of useless shit, but lots of good shit too.

Enjoy.

Hey mods, how about we sticky this, and other folks can post up free manuals they come across?

JC

:rockwoot:

holy crap my pants got a little tighter and I don't know why.

Excellent find

New dryer sheets?

JC

Hey this is bike related, we cannot have this sort of shennanigans going on here people may get upset :lol:

Tom

Pretty nice. That verification code is a pain.

Would you rather type in the 16 digits off your credit card? :lol

JC

small price to pay :lol:

Tom

Stuck.

repairmanualclub.com is another great one.

Nothing for either of my bikes. :( Oh well.

I used this for a couple of my previous bikes but there's not many options for Kawis. Anyone know where to find one for an 05 ZX12R?

Or a '10 Kx450f?

Thanks! I was hoping they'd have one for Erik's new bike, the 07 VFR800.

I bought the service manual for my bike a few years ago. It has come in handy when he makes me do things myself for the first time.

Kinky.


:lol:

the manuals are worth their weight in gold IMO, I havce used the aprilia one quite a bit and am sure the buell one will too once I start tearing into it.

I know I need to check the valves on mine... just not looking forward to rotating the engine out of the frame :tremble:

How many miles you have on yours?

Don't I know it! I have used mine a few times. I'll tell Erik to suck it up and buy one. The thing is he hasn't kept a bike for more than 2 years since we started dating...9 years ago.

Motherfuckers too cheap to buy a manual, yet they've got $2K+ invested in video games :lol:

If/when it comes time for a rebuild, I'll buy one. If I can find one for free before that then it's a no brainer for me.

I pulled the engine apart in my 954 with a downloaded free manual. Am I supposed to feel bad about it? :lol:

I am only at 2k miles so far so I have time for that. I am gearing up fo rmy first oil change myself :lol:

2K and you haven't changed oil yet!!?!?!?!?! DAUMN!!!!

yeah, I had done 3 already by then! :lol:

FYI, you will NOT keep it clean. You have to use something (cardboard, tinfoil etc) to even attempt to keep it off of the kickstand and exhaust (if stock) and other parts... Oh, and put it on a rear stand, that helps.

So the whole act of getting the fluids OUT of the bike was something of an engineering afterthought, eh?

Did the 600 mile change for break in but thats been it. I need to do one to start the season.

If it's anything like the XB's, it's way easier than you'd think... Get yourself a Harbor Freight motorcycle/ATV jack... Best $50 I spent for the Buell.

BTW what oil are you uusing? Not sure I will use rotella in there and sure aint buying hte harley stuff. I was going to get some amsoil from chris but now with no track season and a friend backin gout I wont need much in oil fo rhte season

Run the Amsoil in it. Ask Mark, it's great in bikes.

This ^^^

Ran the Screaming Eagle HD stuff in it for awhile, cause I got a steal on a case. Now I have AMSOIL in it. Still running 20-50... contemplating going to 10-40 just cause that's what gets used in everything else, so the 20-50 kinda sits around.

You do mean the 10w-40 mc oil correct?

And I still wouldn't. The 20W-50 is meant for the v-twins...

Yeah, mc oil of course.

It's 10-40 in the SV, thats a v twin. What do the new Duc's run? I think HD like the heavy oil cause of the air cooling, and just went with it on the Buell cause they don't know any better... but who knows.

I'm guessing the only reason Harley calls for thick oil is because their engine tolerances aren't very tight

It could be the air cooled.

heard something on buelletinboard about running 10-40 in the 1125's

I'm with Gas on this - if it were an older Harley I'd say it was due to the tolerances not being very tight (the ol' leaking oil all over story). These days, they seem to be better able to hold their oil; I'd think you would want the heavier oil for the air-cooled engine to prevent hot-spots caused by oil getting heated and being too thin in spots.

I need to get back on that site... see if I can find me some info on the valve check/adjustment

It's because of their high volume, low pressure system on the sporties. Thick oil works better in that application.

I can't say anything for the evo engines, but I know it's the case with the sportsters, and being a big company I can see them being fine with a "jack of all trades" oil.

Anyone ever come across anymore Kawasaki Manuals? I found one for my 12 but now I need on for an 09 250R.

Werd... another resource:

http://www.theotherstyle.info/manuals/

Beautiful! Thanks man.

cool...My manuals folder just got HUGE

End result = 12.5gb of manuals and a shitty rap album.
Thanks for the link

This week on Hoarders: The team confronts a New York man with 9000 hard drives.

JC

:lol

I'd like a manual on the newer Ninja 1000's just to read up on.

Downloading my SV650 manual now! Thanks!!! We need a smooching smiley :)