First oil changle...what a pain in the...

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PS i also seen the picture he had showing the plug and filter.... t just took it that was a different kind of bike. is that a new valkyrie with covers off ??? if that the case seems like i can turn that with my hand like old stile
 

It is a new Valkyrie with nothing off... that's what you'll see under there if you look.

I bet I can turn it off with my hand next time, but the guys who put them on in Japan
are all sumo wrestlers or something...

-Mike

[Chaz1076]

I spent 15 years in manufacturing of industrial pneumatic tools,  Ford, Boeing, and yes even Harley Davidson,  were just a few of our customers.  I worked in production control.  The one thing that truly amazed me was how design engineers and manufacturing enginers can take an idea, or a request for a certain product, in our case a tool, to perform a certain task, and then design a tool to do not only the task, but within certain specifications.  The point being, what I learned was simply this, when you are talking about people who care about the quality of their product, in this case Honda, the folks who know best how to care for that product, are the people who designed it.  And just a quick thought on the differences is oil changes.  Companies are always trying to improve the quality of their manufacturing procedures.  The 1832cc engine has been in production for what almost 15 years.  I would suspect that changes in production, changes in specifications has to how these engines are tuned, have called for changes in the maintenance schedules.