What up guys Adrian from YouMotorcycle
I was gonna work on my Sportster today
But Cyclepedia sent me an email and they said that they have a brand new service manual for Kawasaki Ninja 300 owners
I got one right there and I thought hey, what the heck?
Let's check out the service manual see what kind of stuff we can do
First things first, I'm gonna take this bike down put the ninja up and then we'll go fire up Cyclepedia and see what the bad
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Then we'll go fire up Cyclepedia and see what the new manual is all about
Alright guys, so I've never done this before so let's hope it works. Basically using the power and magic of computers
I'm gonna take what's happening on that computer over there put it on that screen and show it to you guys. Cool
So the first thing is what is Cyclepedia? It's the website. It's a business where what they do is they take motorcycles
They tear them apart and they document every process of the teardown and of the rebuild
So whatever it is you need to do or get access to
They show you step-by-step how to get to it how to inspect it how to replace it
They have a number of different bikes and they have different kind of subscriptions, which is really cool
one is if you're looking for, if you're kind of a
Do-it-yourselfer with maybe one or two vehicles and there's another one which is a pro subscription which gives you access to everything
that's really cool if you are like a
Motorcycle dealership or a shop. Let's go back though. I just want to
Login to show you guys
We're here to talk about the ninja 300 boom right there
so
The table of contents over here super easy
There's a couple things that I want to go after to show you guys obviously, you know basic stuff that every service manual
should have
periodic maintenance
The maintenance chart for example is where you really should start guys
If you don't know what a maintenance chart is
This basically tells you at every different kilometer or odometer interval and what you should be doing
So this says I for example that's inspection. Itf it says C or R, it's change or replace. So
What can we do with this? Let's say for that ninja 300 that I just put on there
I don't know when the last time it's had its oil changed
So I do want to change this oil so we can see right here boom engine oil and click on that
Here we go. And
What's really great as it shows us step by step in full color everything and it's really showing you you know
the basics keep the motorcycle in upright position
Start the engine allow it to run for several minutes yada yada yada. It shows you how to do an oil change
Step by step even removing the cap is one step . In general, what's really nice is you have
they do a couple things one is they give you all the pictures in full color and you can
You didn't have something we want to just blow up and see what was happening
You could really zoom in and take a look
another thing is they're really good at showing you all the different specifications whether it be torque values whether it be
you know capacities what types of oil you can or cannot use and
They're really receptive to feedback. So you can send them in feedback on whatever is you try and do let's look at spark plugs
I think spark plugs is a great example of
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Spark plugs is a great example of
Just how cool this stuff really is
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first of all again right off the bat it gives you your
Specs so spark plug has you the spark plug type?
ngk cr8e and it tells you how what the gap should be on your spark plug and
So's for access you're gonna have to do the following remove the fairings and remove a fuel tank now that's really important
What's great here is this is all hyperlinked
So not only do they show you step-by-step
And again when things are kind of difficult to see you can sort of really just pinch and zoom and see what's happening there
But they really tell you this is what you got to do first
And then instead of having to look like old-school black and white Hanes manual which really like those things suck
They were terrible the old paper manuals where everything was like grey on grey couldn't really tell what's happening. The pictures were teeny-tiny here
It's bright. It's easy to see and then if it was like you had to remove this regard I was like turn to section
631 and try to navigate through those books was kind of a pain in the butt
Let's be real so here when you just have this single click to get to the part that you need
That's that's brilliant. And again, here's another great example where they really show you it's super you're thinking which screws need to come undone
Boom, it's got pictures little red circles. That's
Like so so easy so cool. They really make it so that you can just follow them all step by step and
You're gonna have a good time
Let's look at engine just because I want to take a look in there cuz I feel like that's where having those those really pretty
Pictures will really be helpful. Let's look at
Valves. So again step one with the cylinder head
You're gonna have a link right here
If you click on it that's gonna take you to information on moving the cylinder head
It does recommend protective gloves and eyewear at this point. That's great
And yeah, it's it's great to be able to sort of zoom in see very closely. What's happening?
How things should or should not look?
very very cool does give you inspection your steps as well as what this
Should be so it kind of gives you your benchmark and then what your service limit is
This is this is great stuff for anybody who's wanting to work on the bike themselves, so now you see a little bit about what
Some ninja 300 online service manual. Click on that add to shopping cart. Notice how it hasn't really told us the price just yet. Let's
Go ahead and add that so if you don't if you aren't on the professional plan, you have two purchasing options
So one is you can buy it for one year for 27 bucks or for a lifetime for fifty dollars
So now obviously if you're gonna keep this bike anything more than one year
The lifetime time for 50 bucks is definitely the way to go they take credit card
They also take paypal again. If you want passes to all their stuff, right? I think it was 200 bucks
Per year, you can access all of our servicemen
They also have a lot of different tools in terms of charts diagrams you
zoom in see what exactly is a part of the evie it just like you never say actually like so company that I
Guess overall my thoughts on the cycle PD is product on this is this is really kick-ass here
My chicken wings are ready. Hold on one second
All right, I'm gonna wrap this up because I want to get to some chicken wings
But let me just say cyclepedia put together a really cool product. Yeah
Yeah, really taken their time on every single thing. You see there was oil
Changes from 4 into the balance went your boiler. They don't go high level. They really go in-depth
They show you step-by-step remove this cap remove that I love that
They show you parts specs
Capacities and tell you exactly which kinds of oil or which kinds of products and camera can use they call to your attention
certain safety things that it's just it's such a complete book
It's so much better
Having the digital copy. I'm somebody who I like to work with my hands. I like to have that
Thing that I can take notes on and I can fold the pages and I can put a little sticky note in the book
But I got to tell you that
Having it on screen
Where you can see them full-color where you can blow up the pictures where you can see just broken down so many steps
There's no way they can fit that in in a Clymer's manual
There's no waiting for that in a Haynes manual not without making you know
three times big some of those other guys like Heinz and fiber paints mines what they do is, you know,
They'll have I think I might have a little insect
Okay, so I don't have a hands are climbers manual
I do have a factory harness service manual how user-friendly is this this one actually pretty decent
Look at the quality of the pictures and compared to what you just saw
it's black on but there's a little bit of stuff labeled but
At this point in its life, it looks kind of ratty looking it's pretty the shop
It's been touched by a lot of greasy fingers. I
Mean, I think with cyclepedia you're getting a lot more bang for your buck. So
For me, that's what I use. That's what I would recommend for you guys to use
I'm gonna have all kinds of links and descriptions. This is a very new YouTube channel
So this is my first time doing everything that I'm doing. If you guys have any comments or suggestions on your Ninja 400 300
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