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+4NWSSC exavid model28a livingkennedy 8 posters | Author | Message |
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livingkennedy Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 4 Location : Portland, OR Points : 3343 Registration date : 2015-08-17
| Subject: Hello from Portland, OR! Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:32 pm | |
| Hi All,
My name is Brandon and this past weekend I purchased my first scooter, a 2005 Honda Silverwing with about 20k miles. I've had a chance to take it out for a few hours and I love it!
Looking forward to sharing experiences and advice with my fellow forum members, I spent about a month lurking before I ended up buying my S'wing and this seems like a great resource. |
| | | model28a Silver Wing Guru
Number of posts : 2085 Age : 71 Location : St.Pete.FL. Points : 7508 Registration date : 2010-02-03
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:29 pm | |
| livingkennedy welcome to the best Silverwing forum on the web. |
| | | exavid Silver Wing Guru
Number of posts : 2658 Age : 81 Location : Medford, Oregon Points : 8348 Registration date : 2009-07-17
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:41 pm | |
| Welcome from Southern Oregon Brandon! |
| | | NWSSC Silver Wing Rider
Number of posts : 418 Age : 86 Location : Mt Prospect IL 30 miles west of Chicago Points : 5799 Registration date : 2010-03-03
| Subject: Hello from Portland, OR! Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:22 pm | |
| Hello Brandon and welcome from Mt. Prospect Illinois.Take a look around and you will find a load of information here.Try and locate a service manual for your S/W. Howard |
| | | exavid Silver Wing Guru
Number of posts : 2658 Age : 81 Location : Medford, Oregon Points : 8348 Registration date : 2009-07-17
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:15 am | |
| If you plan to work on your scooter you definitely do need a service manual. Helm Inc. makes licensed reprints of Honda manuals. A full service manual runs about $65 but it's worth every penny.
Take a look here: http://www.helminc.com/helm/Result.asp?Style=helm&Mfg=AHC&Make=AHC&Model=FSC+&Year=2005&Category=1&Keyword=&Module=&selected%5Fmedia= |
| | | Dale N. Silver Wing Guru
Number of posts : 1996 Age : 78 Location : Princeton, MN Points : 6022 Registration date : 2014-02-13
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:58 am | |
| Welcome Brandon from Princeton, MN to the best SWing site by far on the Net. |
| | | oldgwingguy Super Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 247 Location : Hocking Hills Points : 3801 Registration date : 2015-02-08
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:02 am | |
| Welcome aboard, 05 nice scoot I really like mine. |
| | | livingkennedy Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 4 Location : Portland, OR Points : 3343 Registration date : 2015-08-17
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:14 pm | |
| Much appreciated exavid, I'm on the site checking them out now! Just wondering though... I'm really inexperienced mechanically. I've done construction and assembly type stuff, know how to use tools and whatnot, but I've never gotten into the weeds with mechanical stuff. Will this guide be enough for me to get started? My main concern is that I might do more harm than good.
Also, they recommend the "Common Service Manual" as well. Is that a necessary addition?
Thank you all for the warm welcome, looking forward to seeing you out on the road! |
| | | gremlin Super Scooter Rider
Number of posts : 227 Age : 72 Location : Brisbane, Australia Points : 3732 Registration date : 2015-04-09
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:17 pm | |
| Welcome to this great forum. I agree with the advice to get a workshop manual. But beware that even though it is very good; it does not always show all the details; for example how to remove panels.Often you have to pull or push a panel in a particular direction to disengage the lugs. To me that is the worst part of working on a scooter. It is easy to snap of one of the plastic lugs and very hard to repair them:affraid: . But there are excellent procedures and pictorials available on this forum from guys who have done it more than once. |
| | | Greysilver Silver Wing Rider
Number of posts : 494 Age : 78 Location : Arizona Points : 4371 Registration date : 2014-04-08
| Subject: Re: Hello from Portland, OR! Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:49 pm | |
| Welcome to the site from Arizona. |
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