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RTC Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 260 El Paso, TX (Ft. Bliss) Gender:	Re: two noob questions-cleaning engine & broken bo Reply #15 - 03/05/10 at 22:55:30 is there any mechanical part of the bike that i really want to avoid getting water on?
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: two noob questions-cleaning engine & broken bo Reply #16 - 03/06/10 at 06:47:53 Is there any mechanical part that doesn't get wet when it rains? Just try to avoid spraying too much water up under the fuel tank where the electrics live. If you use a power washer, avoid the switches on the handlebars and the grease seals on the wheel bearings.
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Re: two noob questions-cleaning engine & broken bo
Reply #17 - 03/06/10 at 18:12:58

RTC wrote on 03/04/10 at 19:05:09:

.....does anyone have a good method for removing a bolt that is broken off in it's hole? why would they put such weak bolts o the bike?

R,

About the best tutorial I've ever seen on this subject is given by Norm Keller in this thread:

http://www.my-mc.com/messages/1/121414.html

Read all of his posts in it.

IHTH!

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