Hello, John Talley here with Partzilla.com. Today i'm going to walk
you through the process to change out the coolant on your 2007 Suzuki GSXR
1000. Pretty simple to do. Just need to drain it out, get it refilled, bleed the
air out. Then this one little screw we need to look at to make sure that it's
bled properly. So, let me go grab a couple of tools and I'll show you how to get it
done. Alright guys, this is gonna be a skill level one, so really not gonna be
that tough. Just need to be patient and follow me through all the steps so you
have a successful outcome. As far as the tools you're gonna need, really short
list. Phillips screwdriver, eight millimeter socket, quarter inch ratchet.
Now as far as the parts, all we're gonna need is just the coolant from Suzuki. Now
if you start pulling your bike apart and you find a hose that's cracked or a
connector that's not quite right, if you would, reference our exploded diagrams.
That way you can get the exact part that you need for your particular machine. So
once you've got your tools and your parts together, we can go over there and
I'll show you how to do it. Alright, let's start by opening up the radiator cap so
it'll go ahead and flow out. Alright, there is no drain plug on this
particular unit. What they want you to aim for is the lower radiator hose. So
what we're gonna do is just take off this clamp right here, take off the hose,
and then it's going to drain out. Probably making a bit of a mess in the
process, but hey, that's the only way there is to do this. Now how often should
you be doing this? Well Suzuki recommends that you do this every two years. Not
horrible, but it definitely needed to be changed. See how it has kind of a brown
color to it? Yeah, this was looking pretty sad because this stuff should be a nice
bright green. And you could tell this may have been in one time but not anymore.
Alright, if yours really really looked bad? Like a really dark brown? I'd
recommend at least just filling it up with just regular water and then letting
it flush out a little bit more. Tell you the truth,
not really very enthusiastic about the way this stuff looked so that's exactly
what I'm gonna do. So I'm just gonna grab some regular water, fill it back up, and
then drain it out again. Yes, you're filling it up to help get rid of some of
those air pockets-- just shake it back and forth-- I mean we'll do this when we go to
actually fill it up with the the new coolant, but, same procedure. Just trying
to get as much water in there as possible and drain it back out. Alright,
that should do it. Let's go ahead and take off that clamp
again and drain it out. Tell you what guys, we're still gonna do that one more
time.
Alright let's drain that out and see what she looks like. Alright, that
should be good enough. Yeah, I can pretty much tell you that's not what coolant's
supposed to look like. That's looking pretty tired right there. Alright
let me step out and put this in my container. It's gonna head to the
recycler and then we'll get this thing filled back up. Let's get our hose back
on. Start filling it back up. On a side note, when you're going through to do
this, make sure that uh, you keep any small animals and kids away when you're
working with antifreeze because it has a sweet taste to it and it would
definitely do bad things to a child or a dog. It's very poisonous, so you can want
to be very careful if you're working around kids or small animals. What I'm
doing out is bringing it out of the clamps because as we're filling it up,
instead of just shaking it, which was fine when we were just filling it up
with water, we want to actually move it back and forth slowly as we're adding
more coolant into it.
Kind of a slow process but it takes what it takes. Just trying to get all those
air pockets out of there. Alright we've got almost two quarts in there so we're
getting close. So the next thing we need to do is we're going to start it up and
just let it idle and just keep filling this up if it needs it.
Alright so we are on our level. I'll let it run for a while but not to the point
it's going to build it too much pressure and get hot. Yeah, we're all the way up.
What we have to do next is I'm gonna start it back up and I'm
after this bleed screw right on top of the thermostat housing. It's right here.
So what we're going to do is crank it back up,
loosen up this, open it up, make sure we've got a steady
flow of coolant coming out.
Alright we've got the initial bleed complete. What we need to do now is go
ahead and run it through a couple of heat cycles, probably two or three. So I'm
gonna let it heat up all the way to operating temperature then I'm gonna let
it cool back down. Heat it back up, cool it back down. And this is a
time-consuming process but it's absolutely required to get this done
correctly. Alright the fan's actually turned on.
I'm going to give that a chance to catch up with it, maybe bring my fan around in
front. Then we're going to shut it down and let it cool off.
I'm gonna bring it down about 210 or so, then I'll shut it off. Alright I'm
gonna keep the fan on it. Whatever you do, do not open up that radiator cap right
now because it would spew all over you. So what we're gonna do is let it cool
down, we're gonna run it up again, then let it cool back down, and then we're
gonna get that reservoir filled up. Alright guys, we took it through three heat
cycles. It's on its way to cooling down so the only thing we have left to do is
lift up the tank and get to the reservoir which is right in the middle
under the tank. So, let's lift it up, there's your fill cap right here.
Hopefully you have a funnel with a long spout on it and we're going to be
looking at it from the side to get it filled up to the the full mark. Alright
that got it to the low, so we have a little bit more to put in. Alright
there it is, up to the full line. Let's take out our funnel, get this cap / plug back
in place. Push it all the way in.
Well alright guys, that pretty much wraps this one up. Listen, if you need any of
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