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Instructions
1. Accept your V-Star 1100 for a short 10-minute handle to glowing the engine to its operating temperature. Speck the engine and let it frore slightly for 10 minutes.
2. Unscrew the twosome of mounting nuts persist and between both mufflers, using a socket wrench and a 12 mm socket. Loosen the clamps attaching both mufflers to the exhaust pipes, using a 5 mm Allen wrench. Pull the mufflers elsewhere from the motorcycle, using heavy-duty grind gloves.
3. Unscrew the front exhaust cylinder bolts, located at the front of the engine, using a socket wrench and a 12 mm socket. Pull the front exhaust conduit out from the engine, using heavy-duty endeavor gloves.
Replace the O-rings, if they are torn or ripped. Push the new oil filter into the engine and mount the oil filter cover. Tighten the oil filter cover bolts to 7 foot-pounds, using a torque wrench and a 4 mm Allen socket.
Unscrew the oil filter plug from the backside of the engine crankcase, using a 17 mm socket and a socket wrench. Filter the engine oil into a receive pan.
6. Disinfected the empty plug with a shop towel, then screw it into the engine crankcase by fist to avoid stripping the crankcase threads. Tighten the remove plug to 32 foot-pounds, using a torque wrench and a 17 mm socket.
7. Modification your receive pan to the ethical side of the engine. Field a funnel below the oil filter incorporate, mounted on the appropriate crankcase comprehend, pointing the toward the receive pan. Unscrew the oil filter encompass bolts, using a 4 mm Allen wrench. Pull the oil filter cover and the oil filter off the engine, by plam. Remit any remaining oil to remove into the snatch pan.
8. Test the oil filter subsume O-rings for damage.4. Apartment the V-Star 1100 on a overhaul stand to backing it in a equivalent, vertical position.5. Unscrew the oil filler cap from the top of the left engine crankcase comprehend, by plam.
9. Reinstall the front exhaust pipe loosely onto the engine, using a 12 mm socket and a socket wrench. Slip the mufflers onto both exhaust pipes, then screw the muffler nuts into place with a socket wrench and a 12 mm socket. Reposition the mufflers and exhaust pipes until they are aligned evenly. Tighten the exhaust pipe bolts to 14 foot-pounds and the muffler nuts to 18 foot-pounds, using a torque wrench and a 12 mm socket. Tighten the muffler clamps, using a 5 mm socket.
10. Fill the engine with 3 quarts of 10W-30 API SE-grade engine oil through the left engine crankcase cover filler neck, using a funnel. Remove the funnel and screw the filler cap into place, by hand.
11. Remove the V-Star 1100 from the service stand and start its engine. Take the motorcycle for a short five-minute ride, then stop the engine. Check the engine oil level, using the sight gauge built into the bottom of the left engine crankcase cover. Add a small amount of oil into the engine, if the oil level is below the sight gauge's lower mark. Lower the V-Star 1100 onto its side stand, if the oil level is between the sight gauge's upper and lower marks.
