You were able to remove the shock without removing the rear wheel it appears? I'm certainly glad I came across your channel as I just purchased a 2009 RSV and found the shock is leaking pretty severely and found a good used one and am going to swap them out. I will do an oil change before installing it.
Congratulations on the find of a 2009 RSV. You do not have to remove the rear wheel to remove the shock. But you must have the ability to jack the bike up level and manipulate the elevation of the rear wheel to take the pressure off of the two bolts holding the shock in place.. That red scissor lift under my machine I bought on eBay for $50 free shipping about three or four years ago. There are about $70 now, I would spend $250 on one of them. I discovered them by watching videos of a Goldwing specialist company on TH-cam called traction dynamics.. spelled TRAXXRION, I think. They were holding up gold wings using that style lift so I searched and found them on eBay. Invaluable since Venture is no longer have center stands You do have to remove both saddlebags. when removing the four bolts holding the saddlebags on, there is a chrome spacer you have to keep track of on the outside of the bag on top closest to the tail light that will fall when you pull the top rear bolt out on each side..I actually have a video on TH-cam dedicated to just showing how to remove the saddlebag. They are so easy to remove I could probably remove one while holding my breath. It’s just 4 screws you have to remove the seat, don’t lose those long 10 mm nuts holding the seat on just Behind the gas tank. Once you drop one of them, which I have done, they go straight to China.. it will probably bounce out onto the road once I start riding again here in 2023, but I can’t find it on the machine and it’s not on my floor there is a 19 mm not holding the air Schrader valve in place on the right side of the machine for the suspension. Do not lose that nut. That nut was stuck in the socket, I didn’t know it, when I went to put the shock back in the first time last year I had the shock out, I thought I would just go to a hardware store and get a nut, they don’t exist in any hardware store, then I went through my box of every leftover metric not bolt screw I collected since the 1970s, nothing even close. So don’t lose that nut. Mine was actually stuck inside the socket, thank goodness that vent tube that is attached to that rubber bellows around the shock comes up and plugs into a holder/saddle on the right side of the machine right next to the battery are use 125 cc of 7WT fork oil in the shock. evidence of seal leakage is in my earlier videos especially the one on swingarm inspection. When I changed the oil I drained out last year‘s 125 cc to see if I lost any. My shock not only didn’t appear to lose any of that oil, but it was also holding air pressure since the last time I checked it six months earlier. So changing the shock oil is something I am going to do every year, and I’m not gonna worry about the seal seepage because there was no puddle under my machine, there was no saturation of the parts directly under the shock on the linkage i’ve seen on the Internet some of the Venture clubs indicate that there is a member that will change the oil and seal on your shock if you send it to him for under $100.. you could probably find out who he is on Venture’s.org or however they name of the ventures online blog group… I suggest you get one of those where are cycle scissor lift jack tools on eBay before starting this job. There are usually a few dozen of them for sale from different sellers on eBay at any one given moment..I have a video dedicated to just demonstrating that Jack and showing it from all angles. I left my bike up on that jack over the winter to give the suspension and wheel bearings a break.. but you are definitely going to need a jack like this to take the weight off of the two bolts holding the shock in, and more importantly, to get them back in. I did it by lowering the bike on the jack until the rear wheel was in contact with the ground just enough to allow those bolts to freely float in the holes holding the shotgun. They are 17 mm on both ends of the two bolts holding The shock in.. Pay attention to which direction/side of the machine you put the bolts in from, the air hose on the shock face is the rear tire when reinstalling the shock…. take a couple pictures with your phone so you see the routing for that air vent of that bellows rubber thing around the shock how it gets back up where it belongs, and check the top bushing. I stuck a large screwdriver in there and tried to twisted and shaking really make it move. I thought my top bushing was fatigued, but once I got the shock out it was not. I was prepared to change it, you can go to eBay and buy bushings that are for sale on there or not specific to the Venture call me you’ll just have to measure it and buy something slightly larger so you have a good interference fit. At least that was my plan.. to get the oil into the shock, I bought that turkey baster syringe at a store around here called five or less. It’s like a dollar store type store .. The first time I did it just using a tiny funnel, it was a mess. I had to re-drain all the oil back out because I didn’t know how much I lost and how much I got in the shock because the Air trying to get out of the shock that I was displacing with the incoming oil, made it necessary to have something to inject the oil past the opening so the air could escape while putting the oil in..
@jody fresnack Thanks, if I had watched all of you video before asking, I'd have known the answer, I did purchase the sissor lift off eBay for $57 after watching one of your other videos. Thanks again!
Charles jody here I just published a video on TH-cam clarifying that removal of the rear wheel is not necessary to be able to remove and replace the shock. Hope this helps..
You were able to remove the shock without removing the rear wheel it appears? I'm certainly glad I came across your channel as I just purchased a 2009 RSV and found the shock is leaking pretty severely and found a good used one and am going to swap them out. I will do an oil change before installing it.
Congratulations on the find of a 2009 RSV. You do not have to remove the rear wheel to remove the shock. But you must have the ability to jack the bike up level and manipulate the elevation of the rear wheel to take the pressure off of the two bolts holding the shock in place..
That red scissor lift under my machine I bought on eBay for $50 free shipping about three or four years ago. There are about $70 now, I would spend $250 on one of them. I discovered them by watching videos of a Goldwing specialist company on TH-cam called traction dynamics.. spelled TRAXXRION, I think. They were holding up gold wings using that style lift so I searched and found them on eBay. Invaluable since Venture is no longer have center stands
You do have to remove both saddlebags. when removing the four bolts holding the saddlebags on, there is a chrome spacer you have to keep track of on the outside of the bag on top closest to the tail light that will fall when you pull the top rear bolt out on each side..I actually have a video on TH-cam dedicated to just showing how to remove the saddlebag. They are so easy to remove I could probably remove one while holding my breath. It’s just 4 screws
you have to remove the seat, don’t lose those long 10 mm nuts holding the seat on just Behind the gas tank. Once you drop one of them, which I have done, they go straight to China.. it will probably bounce out onto the road once I start riding again here in 2023, but I can’t find it on the machine and it’s not on my floor
there is a 19 mm not holding the air Schrader valve in place on the right side of the machine for the suspension. Do not lose that nut. That nut was stuck in the socket, I didn’t know it, when I went to put the shock back in the first time last year I had the shock out, I thought I would just go to a hardware store and get a nut, they don’t exist in any hardware store, then I went through my box of every leftover metric not bolt screw I collected since the 1970s, nothing even close. So don’t lose that nut. Mine was actually stuck inside the socket, thank goodness
that vent tube that is attached to that rubber bellows around the shock comes up and plugs into a holder/saddle on the right side of the machine right next to the battery
are use 125 cc of 7WT fork oil in the shock.
evidence of seal leakage is in my earlier videos especially the one on swingarm inspection. When I changed the oil I drained out last year‘s 125 cc to see if I lost any. My shock not only didn’t appear to lose any of that oil, but it was also holding air pressure since the last time I checked it six months earlier.
So changing the shock oil is something I am going to do every year, and I’m not gonna worry about the seal seepage because there was no puddle under my machine, there was no saturation of the parts directly under the shock on the linkage
i’ve seen on the Internet some of the Venture clubs indicate that there is a member that will change the oil and seal on your shock if you send it to him for under $100.. you could probably find out who he is on Venture’s.org or however they name of the ventures online blog group…
I suggest you get one of those where are cycle scissor lift jack tools on eBay before starting this job. There are usually a few dozen of them for sale from different sellers on eBay at any one given moment..I have a video dedicated to just demonstrating that Jack and showing it from all angles. I left my bike up on that jack over the winter to give the suspension and wheel bearings a break.. but you are definitely going to need a jack like this to take the weight off of the two bolts holding the shock in, and more importantly, to get them back in. I did it by lowering the bike on the jack until the rear wheel was in contact with the ground just enough to allow those bolts to freely float in the holes holding the shotgun. They are 17 mm on both ends of the two bolts holding The shock in.. Pay attention to which direction/side of the machine you put the bolts in from, the air hose on the shock face is the rear tire when reinstalling the shock….
take a couple pictures with your phone so you see the routing for that air vent of that bellows rubber thing around the shock how it gets back up where it belongs, and check the top bushing. I stuck a large screwdriver in there and tried to twisted and shaking really make it move. I thought my top bushing was fatigued, but once I got the shock out it was not. I was prepared to change it, you can go to eBay and buy bushings that are for sale on there or not specific to the Venture call me you’ll just have to measure it and buy something slightly larger so you have a good interference fit. At least that was my plan..
to get the oil into the shock, I bought that turkey baster syringe at a store around here called five or less. It’s like a dollar store type store .. The first time I did it just using a tiny funnel, it was a mess. I had to re-drain all the oil back out because I didn’t know how much I lost and how much I got in the shock because the Air trying to get out of the shock that I was displacing with the incoming oil, made it necessary to have something to inject the oil past the opening so the air could escape while putting the oil in..
@jody fresnack Thanks, if I had watched all of you video before asking, I'd have known the answer, I did purchase the sissor lift off eBay for $57 after watching one of your other videos. Thanks again!
Charles
jody here
I just published a video on TH-cam clarifying that removal of the rear wheel is not necessary to be able to remove and replace the shock. Hope this helps..
@@Jodyrides Jody, Thanks for the heads up, I will check it out, I have been watching a number of your videos, and GOOD stuff. Thanks, Charlie