mgv@duke.UUCP (Marco G. Valtorta) (08/27/85)
I saw a Clymer book for Suzuki 550's at the local motorcycle shop. The book was wrapped, so I couldn't browse through it. Does anyone know how good this book is? What prerequisites are required to use it correctly? (I have hardly done any work on my motorcycle.) The book sells for $11.95. Marco
grego@athena.UUCP (Grego Sanguinetti) (08/30/85)
> I saw a Clymer book for Suzuki 550's at the local motorcycle shop. > The book was wrapped, so I couldn't browse through it. Does anyone > know how good this book is? What prerequisites are required to > use it correctly? (I have hardly done any work on my motorcycle.) > The book sells for $11.95. > > Marco sorry to reply on the net, I boggled it! I have several 550 manuals including clymer and haynes and would be happy to send them to you as I no longer own the motorcycle. I don't remember which years they cover. They are pretty good but not as good as the factory manuals sometimes available. Reply to Grego Sanguinetti uucp: {ucbcad,decvax,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!tektronix!teklds!grego CSnet: grego@tek ARPAnet:grego.tek@rand-relay
carey@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA (08/30/85)
The Clymer books I have seen are usually pretty good. I thought it was better than the Chilton for my Honda.
schwager@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA (08/31/85)
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The Clymer books are pretty good, however, I recently came across a couple of
errors in mine that pissed me off. By the way, I'm a rather poor, novice
Honda CX500 owner (water cooled, shaft driven for the uninitiated). I like to
do my own work on the electronic/mechanical goodies I own- bicycle, '72 Pinto
(hey- no comments from the peanut gallery :-), and motorcycle. Anyhow, I
decided to do some maintenance on my Honda- change fork oil, repack wheel
bearings, fix squeaky breaks. I have to take apart my forks to change
the oil on my bike. So I did- but I found after taking the one apart and
coming back to it the next day that I had an extra spring that wasn't shown in
the book. Well, I kinda figured it out but managed to put it in wrong
(determined after taking the other fork apart). That irked me a bit, but
then I went to work on the wheel bearings- ok, so I'm ignorant! First, the
details in the book were VERY sketchy- basically, "take the bearings out,
clean them, regrease 'em, and put 'em back in." Thanks, guys. So here I am
trying to tap them out with a hammer and a drift, along the outside edge
of one of the bearings. I managed to put a ding in the edge of one of them.
Argh. Well, I took the wheel to "Bill's Custom Bikes" and he kinda just
laughed at me, told me to throw the book away, opened up the bearings and
showed me that now only were they sealed, but they were completely greased and
clean as a whistle. So based on his recommendation and this minor experience
that could have ended up costing me $20 plus 3 weeks of waiting (had I not
gone to Bill's), go spend the extra bucks and get the shop manual..
-mike schwager
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