Sorry Cliff, I've only ever replaced them once, and all I remember was it was a bugger of a job angling them all in to fit.
What a day. I rode the big Yamaha the 400 miles down from Canberra to Melbourne yesterday, so today I took it over to Jeff at Ace to get some new front discs, pads, and a new Pirelli Angel GT tyre.
On the way home I stopped in at Repco and picked up 5 litres of Penrite HPR10 Gas oil, which is supposed to be really good for FJR1300's, plus a litre of Morey's oil additive. I've used Morey's for years, I knew some guys who ran a dodgy car yard years ago, they had a 200 litre drum of the stuff, if you added a litre to a rattley 500 dollar clunker's engine/gearbox/diff it'd come out sounding like a new car. They gave me some to try in one of my cars and I liked it so much I still use it now.
This bike is all about long distance comfort, not form over function. The seating position is more upright than a sports bike, but still a little bit of a reach forward, so I saw some "Heli Bar" risers on eBay and had to have them. They raise the bars an inch, and bring them back closer to the rider. They are engineering porn too, which helps.
Anyway, by 4 pm it was all back together, and I'd had enough of working on bikes for one day. Oh, that's the new "V Stream" windshield, which is great in cold weather, but awful when it's warm. I'll leave it on for the next few months because it's only getting colder here, but it'll be coming off once it warms up again. Cheers, Terry.