Finally cleaned TeaBag

[SheepDog]

Completed a service on the old girl yesterday. Replaced oil (Syn-X 3000), oil filter (EMGO), cleaned and re-oiled K&N air filter, cleaned and rotated spark-plugs, adjusted throttle cables, AND pulled the fuel pump.

Attached some pictures of the filter and the sump it sits in. First time seen for me so not sure if just dirty/rusty or really dirty/rusty.

Anyway, scrubbed and cleaned with wet&dry and flushed everything with brake cleaner and air dried. Lubed O-rings and reinstalled.
Seems to chug along quite well. Very happy. Highly recommend it. 

[Horse]

Did you flush the internal filter ? , when I did mine a lot of rubbish came out of that too and am not sure that I don't need to do it again . Was definitely an improvement in the higher RPM range afterwards , always a bit of satisfaction in improving something when doing your own servicing .

[VladTepes]

I'm sure this has already been answered but I presume when you invert the tank it doesn't leak. Can you do so with the tank full-ish?


I need to have a look at my filters too,

[KiwiCol]

Correct, it doesn't leak.

[Speedy1959]

Sorry to disagree but the first time I did mine my tank was almost full and it did leak!!
I had to abandon taking out the fuel pump till I had run the tank down to about a quarter..

Why risk it with a full tank? Its harder to lift off and there IS a risk of leakage..
When I re tried to do it with a quarter tank I did it by standing my tank up on end against a wall (with a rug under and behind the tank against the wall).

[Horse]

Agreed the cap breather lets go, a bit of fuel in it and on an angle so it sits in the front of the tank sorted mine out,

[seth]

I've had a leak when I did this with a near full tank .
I now do it with much less fuel in and have no problems .
@SheepDog I also added an inline filter on the fuel pump feed line to reduce the crud in the bowl of the fuel pump as that line is gravity fed so no high pressure to worry about.

http://gsx1400owners.org/forum/index.php?topic=2212.0

[grog]

Both lights flashing is the time. So much easier. No idea why try with a full tank.

[VladTepes]

Both lights flashing and "time to do the job" never seem to coiincide.

[grog]

Dont stress Vlad, park it up empty, time for some Landrover burnouts, traffic light dashes , if you cant beat them at least you can runover them. 

[KiwiCol]

I've never tried with a completely full tank, so dunno about that, but I've had the tank off a few times with up to 3/4 full, no problem. Completely upside down on a towel, no worries.    That's my experience of it anyway.

[VladTepes]

Supplementary question.

Unplugging the electrics is straightforward but how to undo the fuel line.  Based on the pictures people do it at the fuel rail end? Is it just a pressure fit - pliers pull it off, and reverse to refit?

[Horse]

Morning Vled ,
                   The fuel line has a push on fitting with release by hand you just press the ring in the right location and it releases the dry break fitting I personally pulled mine off at the tank end you don't need pliers generally and yes it just pushes back on make sure you push it on straight as you can sometimes you can nick the o ring but these are pretty good i think , the Ducati dry break was a heap of garbage. I put a smear of rubber grease on the male end but that's just a belts and braces thing , good luck

[SheepDog]

Did you flush the internal filter ? , when I did mine a lot of rubbish came out of that too and am not sure that I don't need to do it again . Was definitely an improvement in the higher RPM range afterwards , always a bit of satisfaction in improving something when doing your own servicing .

I didn't pull the pump apart but as per instructions here I removed white clip from the top and pulled off the release valve and flushed everything everywhere if you know what I mean.

I did this with just one bar showing on my fuel gauge (very little fuel) with the tank resting on the tip up against a wall like the picture by Speedy1956. 

[Horse]

Did you flush the internal filter ? , when I did mine a lot of rubbish came out of that too and am not sure that I don't need to do it again . Was definitely an improvement in the higher RPM range afterwards , always a bit of satisfaction in improving something when doing your own servicing .

I didn't pull the pump apart but as per instructions here I removed white clip from the top and pulled off the release valve and flushed everything everywhere if you know what I mean.

I did this with just one bar showing on my fuel gauge (very little fuel) with the tank resting on the tip up against a wall like the picture by Speedy1956. 

yep did the same low level and angled the tank, I pulled the pump to bits as far as I could then flushed and drained the inbuilg filter with contact cleaner a lot of sediment came out. I m going to do that again as i believe there was more to come.