Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 - Owner's Manual > Hand levers, centre and side stand pivots

The following simple maintenance activities will help maintaining your motorcycle. However, for an complete maintenance, we recommend you to get in touch with a Royal Enfield Authorised Service Centre.

• Clean the pivot points and ensure they are free of any dirt, grime, rust, etc.
• Lubricate the pivots.

NOTE

Wipe off the excess lubricant to prevent dirt and grime from accumulating.

DRIVE CHAIN

• Spray drive chain with recommended chain cleaning solvent while simultaneously rotating rear wheel.
• Ensure the drive chain has been sufficiently and completely covered with the cleaning solvent. If necessary use a suitable brush to remove hard deposits from the chain.
• Wait for a few minutes and clean the chain thoroughly from any dirt, grime, etc.
• Rotate rear wheel slowly and simultaneously apply recommended chain lubricant on the chain links.
• Wipe off excess chain lubricant after a few minutes with a clean cloth.

ENGINE OIL LEVEL CHECKING

• Ensure vehicle is in center stand on ground level
• Start the vehicle and gently raise it to approx. 3000 RPM only for 10 seconds.
• Leave the vehicle in idling speed condition for 15 seconds.
• Switch off the engine and wait for 10 minutes for oil to settle down.
• Engine oil level should be close to "MAX" condition.
• If in case of oil level is not in above mentioned condition, then top-up the oil to "MAX" condition and repeat the procedure.
• Do not overfill above the "MAX" mark as it may affect the clutch function.

ENGINE OIL DRAINING

• Ensure vehicle is in center stand on ground level.
• Engine oil should always be drained when the engine is warmed up sufficiently so that the oil drains faster.
• Switch OFF ignition key and wait for 10 minutes for oil to settle down.
• Remove the oil drain bolt and wait for 5 minutes minimum till the engine oil drains completely.
• Drained engine oil quantity will be approx 2.2 liters to 2.9 liters (Oil drain quantity will vary depend on Kilometre covered).

OIL FILLING DURING OIL SERVICE

• Ensure vehicle is in center stand on ground level.
• Clean the oil filter joint face in crankcase and new oil filter to be assembled along with new rubber gasket.
• Clean the oil drain hole joint face in oil pan and drain bolt.
• New washer to be used. Assemble the drain bolt with the specified loctite.
• Remove the oil filler plug & clean the oil filler cap joint face in crankcase and filler plug.
• Refill the specified fresh engine oil quantity 3.1 litres.
• New oil filler plug 'O' ring to be used and assemble the oil filler plug into the crankcase.
• Check the oil level as per oil level checking procedure given below.

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