16K miles any issues I need to start expecting?

[Yellow Jacket]

Originally Posted by Utah Motorcyclist

Ok, I've come up with a list of things I'm going to do before my big 6K summer trip to Florida.

Things to replace:
Tires
Spark Plugs
Oil-Engine/Shaft
Coolant
Brake Fluid
Clutch Fluid
Fork Oil
Check:
Brake pads
Air filter
Clean:
Throttle body

The manual says to replace the "Clutch slave cylinder piston seal" at 15K. What is this?

Are there any other things I need to do?

What manual is saying 15K for the clutch seal?

My Kawasaki Service Manual states:

Replace the Clutch slave cylinder piston seal at four years or 30,000 miles, whichever comes first.

This seal is located between the piston and the spring in the clutch slave cylinder.

Since your 2005 will be four years old this year it should be replaced.

[unwind2]

Originally Posted by Utah Motorcyclist

About how many miles have you guys gotten out of your brake pads?

Had to replace rear pads at 18K.

[ells]

Threads here now have me a little concerned about my clutch spring at 20K. Have done a lot of 2-up and mts with no signs of slipping yet. Probably will let it go until the first signs of slipping. Gadget indicates they can do 50K, his did.

[Jared]

[quote=Yellow Jacket]

Originally Posted by "Utah Motorcyclist":urule8gr

Ok, I've come up with a list of things I'm going to do before my big 6K summer trip to Florida.

Things to replace:
Tires
Spark Plugs
Oil-Engine/Shaft
Coolant
Brake Fluid
Clutch Fluid
Fork Oil
Check:
Brake pads
Air filter
Clean:
Throttle body

The manual says to replace the "Clutch slave cylinder piston seal" at 15K. What is this?

Are there any other things I need to do?

What manual is saying 15K for the clutch seal?

My Kawasaki Service Manual states:

Replace the Clutch slave cylinder piston seal at four years or 30,000 miles, whichever comes first.

This seal is located between the piston and the spring in the clutch slave cylinder.

Since your 2005 will be four years old this year it should be replaced.[/quote:urule8gr]

If I'm understanding correctly, the maintenance manual says on page 2-5 to replace the Clutch slave cylinder piston seal at 4 years or at 7.5,15,24K miles--whichever comes first.

[Yellow Jacket]

Utah,

What manual do you have? My manual I got directly from Kawasaki and it says 4 years or 30,000 miles.

Here's a photo of page 2-5 from my manual:

The first bullet for Clutch Seal is in the 30,000 column.

[Jared]

That is the strangest thing. I have the 2005 Kawasaki Nomad 1600 PDF manual and my page 2-5 is exactly the same as yours except mine has a dot in every square except 0.6.

I would assume yours to be correct?

[Yellow Jacket]

That is strange. Is this a PDF manual you downloaded from somewhere? Mine is the hardcopy manual I ordered directly from Kawasaki. I would hope mine is correct.

[ponch]

Mine too. It's got to be a typo.

Originally Posted by Utah Motorcyclist

That is the strangest thing. I have the 2005 Kawasaki Nomad 1600 PDF manual and my page 2-5 is exactly the same as yours except mine has a dot in every square except 0.6.

I would assume yours to be correct?

[ells]

My PDF manual shows the same as TC's

[Jared]

I downloaded the PDF version for free off of some website. I wouldn't surprise me if it had a few errors.