what's up guys dave here with the gold wing again honda gold wing 2012 model
but this will apply to many different years of gold wings uh we're going to change the
final drive fluid back here get you some shaft drive oil from your honda dealer
a 17 millimeter wrench
and it may be pretty tight the drain plug so you may have to tap it you know with your hammer just
tap on the wrench a little bit just to get it to come loose then get your drain pan ready
and
and there it comes pretty dark actually because this only holds four ounces of
fluid not much at all so it's probably a good idea to change this out pretty
frequently because there's not much fluid in there you know what i'm saying
so that's that
now the stock drain plug is is magnetic there's a little magnet tucked up in there not very strong
quite honestly and if father do say so but it is magnetic so you'll want to clean that off
and check for any abnormal metallic debris you know make sure it's just maybe a little bit of
sludge built up on it and you can take you some contact cleaner brake cleaner and a little pick
and uh your compressed air gun and just blow anything out of that little hole right there
but it is a magnetic drain plug which is nice to have
and for those of you curious the thread size is 14 millimeter diameter by 1.5 pitch so if
you ever have to replace this or if you want to upgrade to a better magnetic drain plug we sell
these actually uh 14 by 1.5 is what you're looking for and just coincidentally the head size is 17
but if you're shopping for drain plugs what you want to know is the diameter of the bolt itself as
well as the pitch of the thread 14 by 1.5 and this is common for most honda motorcycles and a lot of
cars for that matter but for most your motorcycles above 1000 cc's especially in the oil drain plug
for your crank case most of them are 14 by 1.5 but the smaller bikes under a thousand cc's a lot of
them are 12 by 1.5 just some random trivia for you i'll just give it a few minutes to let the
to let the oil drain out of there it's um here if you want to see exactly
that's the weight of oil it's pretty heavy
80 weight 90. hypoid gear oil is what honda specifically recommends for this bike
so make sure you get that if you can it's called exceeds gl4 and gl5 classification
you know but that's what it's called if you're shopping around for it
and the cool thing uh it comes with this little cap this little cap right here that has another
cap on the end so you could cause you're only going to use four ounces of this so you can reuse
it you know use this for a later date but it gives you a nice little spout that you can pour into it
you know as little as you need and not make a big old mess so it's kind of cool that it
comes with the bottle anyway now for the uh the fill cap that's also 17 millimeter
i know maybe hard to see right here well let's get up under there
but it's a little bit higher up in here it's hard to see a little bit but it's
right behind the exhaust but you should be able to get to it with your wrench
and the same deal you may have to if you can't get it to budge you may have to use your
hammer and tap it loose a little bit there we go
so that's just up there on the left and it is a little difficult to access
so take note of that you may have to use some kind of little siphoning system you know
to fill it in there or maybe a little tube i would use some kind of fill tube so you can put it in
there then you can pour it in and squeeze it in there you know with your with your little bottle
that's the only bad part is the the fill plug is completely blocked off by the exhaust right here
so you know you have to come up with a way to get it in there i'm going to use
maybe a syringe you could use like a large syringe and just force feed the fluid
in there and not make a mess so that's what i'm going to do but you do it however you care too
and on page 186 of your owner's manual it tells you how to do all this you know it's very simple
uh you're talking 15 foot pounds for the drain plug
so not all that tight you know on on reinstall uh 4.1 ounces of fluid is all it takes
so another good reason to change this fluid out pretty frequently because there's such a little
amount in there anyway i won't show you all the rest of that just redo you know reverse what
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and you'll be able to find us so that's it once again this is the 2012 honda goldwing
doing some basic maintenance to it you'll have a great day we shall see you all later