Tools list: -Tape measure -5mm hex wrench - 12mm wrench 🔧 - 14mm wrench 🔧 -19mm socket or wrench -15/16 Socket or wrench - Chain alignment tool - bike stand - Breaker bar (makes things easy) -a big screw driver with cloth wrapped around it to add girth Good lighting helps a lot. Video note: Take your chain measurement on the kickstand before putting it up on stand.

I see that this video is a few years old.. Thanks for taking the time to make the content. However, hardware best practice is that you always apply tightening or loosening torque to the nut and not the bolt head. At 8:19 you show us the manual and it says torque the axle nut to 65 ftlbs, but you are pointing to the bolt head. Use a 24mm socket and your torque wrench on the nut on the brake side. Same goes for when you loosened everything up at the beginning 2:00. You would want to brace the ratchet /19mm socket on the chain side and break the nut free on the brake side with your wrench - 24mm prefered, but 15/16" in a pinch. You won't make the required torque in the manual by torquing the bolt head. You'll come up short.

19 mm and 23, 1 and 5/8 slack in chain Loosen the axle bolt, suspend in air, make sure the axle nut is loose enough that you can make adjustments, make adjustments, put a little bit of tension on the axle bolt, lower to the ground, tighten down axle and then tightened down adjuster nut. NOT AS TIGHT AS AXLE BOLT AND NOT IN THE AIR! I only made it a little bit over a minute into the video then I had to stop, but this is all there is to it! if you don't have a stand then get something slightly taller than the right side of the arm, I mean the bike towards the kickstand raising the right side and set it there. I don't recommend doing this, but I've done it dozens of times, you don't always have the luxury of doing this in your garage and if you're in the middle of nowhere, you all you need is 1 crescent wrench and a tree so you can break off a piece of it long enough to prop the bike up...

The perfect DIY video. Thank you!

You're an absolute legend!

Keep up the excellent work

Thank you. Nice bike. Very helpful.

Thank you man!

Thanks so much saved me trip to shop

Great video!!!

Thanks for the instructions. It was the same steps for cb500x

@RBRM3

5 жыл бұрын

It should be lol

Well done

Thank you

Great video. I just bought a 2018 CRR500R as a first bike and I was a little concerned about chain adjustment.

I would recommend buying a tool called a profi cat laser. You place it on the sprocket and it shoots a laser along the length of the chain. If the laser is hitting the chain in the same place all the way along its length you know the wheel is perfectly straight. That motion pro tools is pants in comparison. They are pretty cheap and run on watch batterys.

I have a 2016 CBR500R and it says to check chain slack and do adjustments with the bike on the side stand.

@spitfire5005

5 жыл бұрын

Clinton Coker right, I should of put the initial track stand part after the chain measurement. at 01:19 I correct it & say to take the measurement tire on the kickstand/on the ground. 👍. Oh & to clarify my remark at 01:44 when I say “standing position” I just mean we don’t manipulate the position of the chain to take point 1 of our measurement. . The bike should be set on the kickstand as you do normally when parking the motorcycle. Then after your measurement put the bike back on the stand to adjust. You won’t be able to adjust it on the ground.

Hi! great video! :) One quick question,do you roll the wheel back to tighten the chain before measuring the slack or just lifting it on the stand and measuring? Thanks in advance

I'm having a problem getting the right side tight so that silver block is wiggling loose. Tried the screwdriver but still. Will have another go tomorrow.

@RBRM3

5 жыл бұрын

Did you tighten the axle and axle nut down while it was in the air or on the ground? if you try to tighten it while it's in the air it's going to move and if you don't get the axle nut tight enough either way then it's going to become when you tighten the bolt.

How much is it to have this done at a shop? I don’t have a stand for my bike. Little nervous.

I always find it a pain to get wheel aligned perfectly.

Nicely detailed vid my friend. One thing that interests me is that according to the manual the chain slack is measured from rest to pushing the chain upwards to achieve the corect tension however, looking at the sticker on the swingarm 1:24 it seems to contradict the book by indicating you measure the slack by pulling down and pushing up the drivechain to achieve the correct measurement. What do you think?

@RBRM3

5 жыл бұрын

You don't put pressure against it but you basically rest your hand on it because there is a tiny bit of tension without pulling the top of the chain down along with the bottom. In other words, you do it all from the resting position. You tighten on the ground (a lot of people try to tighten it down in the air and wonder why the right side is wobbly, just like one of the comments above) and you market where is and go upwards, do not push down when measuring. 👍 Also, everywhere you look will say to use the center of the chain while in neutral, but all you do is rotate the wheel backwards (in gear, because you never leave the bike in neutral) which is why you do not pull the chain down, because the slack is already there. Anyways, it's more to the front than the actual middle of the chain and any diagram you look at will actually show that.

Gt Vid.

Just a tip... If you do the adjustments on the side stand the whole screwdriver thing isnt needed

@MichalZalecki

2 жыл бұрын

My understanding is that the screwdriver is for the chain to push the axle (on both sides equally) towards the engine. How the wheel on the ground fixes the issue?

@vintagerealityvr

2 жыл бұрын

@@MichalZaleckibecause that's how Honda technicians and official shop manuals say to do it. how would putting force on one side of the axle even them out? By liftjng the bike off it's suspension the screwdriver helps the wheel stay straight. If you do it on the side stand (referring to Hondas may be diff for other bikes) the suspension is in its natural state so you don't need the screwdriver to add the force.