Honda ADV 350 / Forza Preventative maintenance. Drive belt, clutch, variator, spark plug, air filter

Wow that's bright. Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another fantastic day on planet earth. Looks like the cat's had a party last night. I've got some preventative maintenance to do on this thing. It's done I think it's 17,000 kilometers, hang on, 17,267 kilometers. I've looked at the service interval and I think it's at 20,000 kilometers. I've got to change spark plug, drive belt and that sort of thing. Now because I've just come back from Sikhan Nakhon, I think it's time that I did it now before I get the bike washed because it's disgusting. I know it's 3,000 short of 20,000 but it didn't cost a lot. I think the old the old caboodle, the spark plug, the air filter, the drive belt I think that was about 22 quid or something like that. I'm also going to increase the the variator weights because I've done a lot of highway sort of use. I don't really use it for around town around the city or or anything else like that. It's mainly sort of highway speeds. I don't know you're going to say Honda's done many many decades of testing this thing and and they've got the optimum weights in. No it's the optimum all-round weights in different conditions, different temperatures, different everything. But they say it's basically to tune as you see fit. I don't know why but I always start with taking the air filter box off because it just it makes it a lot easier to access everything underneath. I mean it's all got to come off. I've got to change the air filter so that gets heavier every single time. We need to move camera shut now. There you go. So yes you'll need the right kit which is a screwdriver. Any size will do as long as it's not too big or too small. This air filter hasn't had much use actually but because it's they're so bloody cheap I might as well replace it. Anyway we will proceed. There's two of these locks that come out which can only go in one way. Yes I got it right. It's eight now. Might be best to take this off first actually because it does cover some essential parts like I think up the top the clamp and also there's a filter in here which I have tested checked every time I've taken it apart and every time I've taken it apart it's been completely clean. There is a couple that are longer than the rest so the best thing to do is get the short ones put all the short ones in and then you'll find that there's a couple of holes where it won't bite and they're the holes where the longer ones go. And careful you don't lose that bolt out the middle there. So here we have the variator, we have the clutch, we have the belt which doesn't even seem worn although it is rather dirty. That's a bit tight Tony. I don't remember doing it this tight and then that will come off. It's very very hard to hold it in bloody place but this one generally isn't as tight as the other one. I torque it down to exactly the same torquing. You know, bollock it right up. That is actually a torque setting. Didn't you know? And then the clutch bellows in, should come off. Incidentally I obviously changed the clutch and you know I haven't had a problem with it since. I won't say it's perfect because after a while it does it does start wearing in but I really haven't felt anything near to what it was before. What happens with this is as it starts to wear the belt actually gets narrower. Well as the belt gets narrower it reduces the top end. I tried to work this out and I'm pretty sure I'm right on that is it reduces the top speed because I can't explain it. I'm not going to try and explain it because I'm probably wrong and someone's going to slaughter me for it. Take all this out and then the first thing I'm going to do is just there is no ---- in here at all. I've got to change the weights. So you've got six weights in here. I've got some of this grease which is Yamlube which apparently this is the grease that they use for CVT stuff and I've actually cleaned the bearings out. I'm just going to put a bit around here and the front one doesn't have any any lube on it at all. I don't think it needs it because it's got like a ceramic no not ceramic it's like a carbon bearing. I think I need to move this out of this bloody heat because it's getting so hot here. I've cleaned all the friction plates off the shoes the whatever you call them I don't bloody know I don't care either. I need to get this belt. This is the new belt which is the same as the old one but obviously it's new and newer is better. Everything I think has been cleaned off properly. I've got some 22 grams I've got some 24 I think I'm going to put the 24 gram in actually that's if they fit because I have had trouble in the past where they don't bloody well fit because they're for an x max or something like that so I need to grind a bit off them. I know people are going to say oh I like to put a bit of lube in there or something you see look at that they're too big so I can't fit those those are quite a bit too big as well uh let's just see if there's any I can show you there we go that's an even worse point that's way too big so I can't use those unless I grind some off and you're probably going to grind about two grams off so you may as well just use the 22s let's just see if they're the right size yeah that's better obviously you need them to move freely like this so these are half a gram heavier than the originals yeah they fit all around so I'll use those instead when you've fitted these things make sure that they all fit they all go nice and freely well that one doesn't because it's got a bit of the flashing still left on it so I'm gonna have to clean that one up I'm gonna have to clean that one up because it's got the flashing left on it I don't know if you can see that there's just a tiny little bit of flashing left somebody said to me in a previous video that they like to get a bit of lube on these and just just lube them up now number one I don't agree with that because this is where ---- builds up and the last thing you want is the ---- to stick to these bloody things so I'm not doing that definitely not doing it no I'm not I'm not adding lube to that uh it didn't come with it in the factory from the factory so I've also noticed with this slide bearing um it's it's sided I think if I put it in that way I don't know how to do it now if I put it in that way it's fine so it looks like that is sided that's got to go in there first which has all been cleaned out and then that goes on this is the way I put the CVT belt on right is you get it on this side here and then you put it on here and it's going to be bloody tight it always is bloody tight so you get that on there like that and then you push that back in there and then you get your washer which you put on there and then you get the plate and then you very loosely put it on there it's not going to be straight you're not going to be able to tighten it at all all you need to do is get it on the splines put a tiny bit of pressure on it while you're turning this you push the bloody thing in and then you put a bit of pressure on it and then you turn it a bit more you're going to need your tool for this so here is my tool so if you turn it and you push it as well and then you turn it so all you need to do is just get that first just to get it properly on the splines and then assisting with the back and you'll find that if you start just twisting it on the back this will then free up and you've tightened it up just a bit if you get your tool on it again and free it up so it does move and then you can tighten it a bit more and there does become a point where you can just keep tightening it and it will rotate it on its on its own what you don't want to do is get it just wang it up wang it up you don't want to just tighten it up because otherwise it'll crush the belt you're at a point now you can just keep doing this and put the flywheel sorry the clutch belt on there i just need to add something right to all throughout this this when i say this is how i do it it's purely because that's how i do it i'm not saying it's the right way to do things it's just the way that i found it it's the easiest way to do things it probably isn't the right way to do things but i really don't give a ---- if it's easy it's the right way to do it there is no right and wrong way somebody's gonna say i work for honda i've worked there for 25 years and we've never done anything like this and you're a twat i need to talk this up to the specific torque which is six that's six someone's gonna say you've put that in i'll get a life guarantee i'm gonna get some comments on this video saying oh my god i can't believe you did it like that i can't believe you did that way i can't believe you did this i can't believe you did that it pisses me off when people start saying that i've got no tools so my way is the correct way it does my head in really really bad when people say oh you haven't talked that down to the i ain't got a torque meter a torque wrench put the shorter ones in first because if i try and put one of the shorter bolts into the longer bolt holes it don't fit you see that's that's a short bolt and it don't go in so i know that that is actually a longer bolt hole don't try and put the long ones in first i need to clean that up a bit more with my mineral wipes that people are going to say you can't use them because of corrosion oh shut up i can go around and talk and we'll tighten them up i'll tell you i have a season for it for for everything around here so you got you got like a season for insects you've got a season for ants you've got a season for spiders you've got a season for basically everything and i don't know how i don't know how that's even possible and also with things like um there's a season for mangoes although the i mean the temperature only drops or changes by a couple of degrees all year round and so how do the mangoes know that it's the season so this is the filter that everyone's talking about you can see a bit of ---- in there there's nothing major i mean this is a this is all air cooled around here it sucks the air in and blows it over the belt to stop it from overeating i think i only paid a couple of quid for these three screws i mean incidentally if there's anybody listening on my main channel um if you want to listen to the inside talk i always go on about it which i do talk about quite a lot um like my personal life and stuff like that head over to patreon and no i'm not talking about it here i don't talk about a lot really on here i just talk about the topic in hand like fixing the bike or doing that sort of thing but if you want to if you want to hear the rest of it link in the description this thing here which i think it's just a trap or like a water trap but you are supposed to clean it you can't see but there's a bit of oil left in there so that's got to come out wow it's muggy very very muggy i think we'll go and test i can confirm that the revs are lower not a lot but you know it's just it's every little helps i suppose um for the given speed the rpm is actually lower i've noticed it on pickup as well when you when you're pulling away the revs are actually lower oh no what's wrong come on then hey are you too hot you've got a fur coat on don't know why you wear it i'd rather educated you at least a bit uh if i haven't tough you should be watching a different channel shouldn't you not mine because this is ---- i'd like you to remember that life is definitely worth living on this measly earth i didn't change the spark plug ---- if i'm not mistaken the spark plug is behind here comes off like that the spark plug hopefully this engine isn't too hot the spark plug is there there it is look now i think in my tool kit yeah it gives so oh yes sorry it does it comes with a spanner doesn't it hopefully there you go yeah it doesn't warn at all it's hardly worn look but you can see there is a bigger gap in that in the in the old one because it's pre-gapped i haven't worried got to worry about gap in it and obviously we need to get the crush washer crushed but i don't want to do it too tight job done and i'd like you to remember that life is definitely worth living on this measly earth all you've got to do is get out there do what makes you happy do what makes you smile and bollocks to what anybody else should you really be eating while you're doing that