What up guys? Adrian from YouMotorcycle. Today we're gonna be working on my
favorite bike ever the greatest motorcycle harley-davidson has ever
produced I'm talking about the v-rod I want to show you guys really easily how
to do an oil change on this bike before doing this video I did a little homework
I grabbed Harley Davidson's official service manual I looked at some of the
videos that were already out there on the web and I realized that some of the
other videos they had some mistakes: they weren't really in line versus what I was
seeing in the service manual. They weren't giving you the torque specs that
you need to put everything on right, they weren't doing things in the right order
so I'm gonna do one video to show you guys by the book exactly how to do it so if
you're someone like me you want your bike serviced the way a Harley dealer
would do it but maybe you're also kind of cheap like me and you don't want to
actually pay to have a dealer do it when you can just do it yourself this video
is gonna be for you I'm gonna show you guys and only six steps how to do an oil
change on the v-rod right after this *BOOM* Oh and I'm also gonna show you guys
everything you're gonna need to do an oil change before you get started right
after this *BOOM* again
alright guys so before we get started I just wants to do one scene that's gonna
show you guys everything you need all in one caption 20 W 50 semi synthetic motor
it needs at least a semi-synthetic if not a full synthetic
on this bike it's a high-performance machine don't cheap out on your oil. I
will link to all the part numbers as well as everything you see here in the
description box down below so this is a pH 6100 filter it's equivalent to the
harley-davidson part number that I will put down below and while you're looking
down there somewhere over here there's like a like button and then like a
subscribe button if you guys hit that that would make me super happy I'd give
you guys a big thumbs up if it was you so please give me one all right these
wrenches right here are specifically for removing the existing oil filters these
are all oldies but goodies, they're a little bit rusty but they still work great so
we're gonna keep them. I have some rags and I have some paper towel that I'm
keeping out here because odds are I might spill something and I would rather
have this stuff closed by to grab if you have to than to run back inside the house
when I have oil spilling out everywhere. To get the oil drain plug off you're
gonna need a 17 millimeter wrench don't try and mess around for eleven
sixteenths on there or anything else like that they're gonna need a 17 mil
it's a metric size use a metric bit. Alright last but not least we
got these torque wrenches there's actually a torque spec for the drain
plug so you can go a little bit over a little bit under you'll be okay just keep it
within that range so even buying like a really cheap torque wrench is gonna be
more than good enough for what we're doing here alrighty let's quit stallin
and let's start changes in oil on the V-Rod. Sweet. With a warm engine after a ride
the first thing I wanna do is remove your oil filler cap which is gonna be on
the left side of the bike mine is aftermarket looks like this
yours will be kind of right up there and if you see this bolt somewhere around
here, that's your drain plug, your oil filter
caps gonna be somewhere above there on the side of the bike and you're gonna
take the two of them out. So that's where you're gonna grab your 17 mil, you guys are gonna want to have some kind of plan in
place for how you're gonna deal with a lot of oil because you got about 4 litres of
oil in here that you're gonna have to get rid of
Just be careful because the oil might be warm so I'm just staying at
the very tip so it's not gonna drain on me and again you got to have a plan in
place for how you're gonna catch and dispose of all of this oil if you can spare one
of these clear containers they're also really good because I kind of really let
you see what kind of shape it was really in so in my case that is some really
really dark oil but that was step one just remove the filler cap remove your
drain plug let that oil drain out. Step 2 kind of right above here is your oil
filter so we're gonna remove that and more oil is gonna come out one thing to
know make sure that this little ring doesn't doesn't get lost it's gonna go
right between turn the bike kind of like that hope you guys can see so make sure
it doesn't get lost in all of the spray and some drain bolts are actually
magnetic so you should check in there to see if there's any little bits of
worn-out metal from inside your motor that have fallen in there and just give
it a good clean up while you're waiting for everything to drip out all right so
one thing I was very excited to see is that my oil filter which is this tube
right there it actually has a little 17 mil bit right up here you get the oil
filter off I can just put 17 mil socket and just
take that right off so that's gonna make my life a lot easier there we go just
like that then while is this slowly draining out
go for a walk go make yourself a sandwich go crack open a beer or
whatever it is you do for fun you got some time to kill
come back when this is done drain out you can also use this time to set your
torque wrench the v-rod is really interesting it has a range that you can
set the torque wrench to the specifications are 22 to 30 foot-pounds
of torque for your drain plug which is about 30 to 40 Newton meters grab your
torque wrench set it to that I'm gonna aim for kind of
right in the middle. Step 3 is installing a brand new
filter in the bike don't just reuse the old one or leave it in there. Right up
there you're gonna clean that area up you can also while you're in there wipe
up where your oil drain plug is next thing you're gonna do I got a brand new
glove for this dip my finger in my brand new oil then I just spread it around
the oil on the new filter that's gonna help it seal better I'm also gonna try
not to touch the new oil filter with dirty hands or it's just gonna get a
bunch of grime stuck to it I'm not sure if you guys caught that if I got jolted
around a little bit but the official harley-davidson service manual says
Step 4 is to reinstall your freshly cleaned up oil drain plug and then we're
gonna torque it properly clean drain bolt with the washer just gonna hand tighten
it first. I grabbed my 17 mm bit my torque wrench and hit it
from the other side tighten it up.
all right now Step 5 is going to be to pour in five quarts or 4.3 liters of
oil into the bike we're going it down to 700 and then we're gonna stop pouring
that should be 4.3 exactly. Step 6 the final step and then we're
done is just to make sure that you have the oil level right you haven't put too
much or too little so how you gonna check that you have the right amount of
oil in there so your little dipstick you know screw that in all the way you're
gonna turn on the bike let the bike idle for a little bit make sure that your oil
change done well you don't have oil falling out anywhere then you're gonna
take the dipstick out wipe it down clean now mine looks a little bit different so
I can't show you mine but I'll use this picture to demonstrate wipe it down
clean put it back in the bike screw it all the way in then screw it all the way
back out you'll see the line and if it's anywhere in that kind of X'd area
you're all set if it's too high you gotta take off the drain bolt let a
little bit of oil out if it's too low just add a little bit of oil back in
there and that's it guys that's how you do an oil change on a v-rod six easy
steps. Getting to that oil filter is a little bit tricky but other than that
the rest is pretty easy pretty straightforward if you guys have any
questions let me know down in the comments. If you learned anything from
this video I would definitely appreciate a big thumbs. Maybe even hit that
subscribe button and if you're really digging this cool LED headlight it's
like a day maker style headlight that I have on my V-Rod I have a video all
about how to install that where to get it where to get the pieces I even
changed the night rod style headlight over to kind of the more traditional
V-Rod style headlight. If you guys are interested in that I will post a little
link to the video both in the description and then somewhere maybe
over here or over here wherever the videos go alright ride safe
have fun if you have any questions on V rods or anything you'd like to see or
know about them hit me up thanks for watching guys peace Oh
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that's how you do it, boy.