Winter storage: remove air bag pressure?

[Geep]

Any logic to doing this? Spyder in a heated garage until spring time..2015 RT SE

[Dmetcalf]

Great question and one that I am interested in as well....

[ARtraveler]

Heated garage here also. I have never deflated the air bags. They usually need to be re-pressured a bit in the spring though. I have one manual version and one auto version of the air bags.

[Don'tPanic]

Just make sure the blinker fluid is topped off, and the piston return springs are well-oiled.


... heated garage here as well, but hoping to take it out for a ryde few times a month when it's dry out.

[wilpir]

Just make sure the blinker fluid is topped off, and the piston return springs are well-oiled.


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Holy crap I better go check these and buy some driveshaft fluid!

[SteveLaoyster]

Don't forget to change the air in the tires to winter season!

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main...9VDkFHPlsqDYp0

[Mazo EMS2]

It helps to turn the drive belt inside out for winter too.....reduces memory in it

[guzzihack]

Just make sure the blinker fluid is topped off, and the piston return springs are well-oiled.


... heated garage here as well, but hoping to take it out for a ryde few times a month when it's dry out.

Oh, and please don't forget to oil the muffler bearings. Wouldn't want them to seize up over winter.

[Navydad]

Any logic to doing this? Spyder in a heated garage until spring time..2015 RT SE

I don't see any advantage to doing that, but then my idea of winter prep is filling all the bikes tanks with aviation gasoline and plugging in the battery tenders. Sunny day in January? Check tire pressure and take a ride providing roads aren't salted heavily. Never had a starting issue in the spring.

[FlyBoy2121]

I SpyderMan



BRP recommends placing a battery maintenance charger, and covering it with a breathable cloth and these all, me it is in an unheated garage.

FlyBoy2121

[Bob Denman]

There's no need to zero the pressure in the airbag.
But if you do: make SURE that you don't let the rear suspension collapse down fully: put your bike up on jackstands.

[Lew L]

I looked in the muffler for the " muffler bearings" and couldn't find a single one?????? How about some pixs or a video???

What brand of blinker fluid would all you experts recommend.


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Lew

[spydernatic]

Any logic to doing this? Spyder in a heated garage until spring time..2015 RT SE

Dont do it ...this is from experience my 2012 RT compressor went out and I only found out when riding we were bottoming out when we hit bumps and I tried to put more pressure in the rear air bag suspension but could not, what I found out was that all the air had leaked out of the airbag and the compressor was shot. It was repaired under warranty but the tech told me that at all times there must be air pressure in the bag due to what happened to mine as the air bag collapses into it self and causes very small cracks which then leak. So the airbag MUST have pressure in it at all times I would go up to my workshop were the RT is stored during winter and check that there is pressure in it and would never let it get below 15 psi normally it would take about a month before I would need to add in some pressure to it.

[AeroPilot]

Bike washed and a coat of wax - CHECK

Tank full of gas with fuel stabilizer - CHECK

Fresh oil change (also just changed the HCM filter) - CHECK

Winter air pressure checked (left the 30 psi in the fronts after new tires.. sure rolls around the garage good) - CHECK

Looking online for some new farkles, heated gear - CHECK

Battery tender ready on the shelf - CHECK
If it warms up a little, roll it out and go for a spin, watch for loose gravel - CHECK

[Bob Denman]

It sounds like "A Man With A Plan!"

[Two cats]

Holy crap I better go check these and buy some driveshaft fluid!

don't forget the wiper fluid either. The old stuff gets stale over the winter

[Two cats]

I don't see any advantage to doing that, but then my idea of winter prep is filling all the bikes tanks with aviation gasoline and plugging in the battery tenders. Sunny day in January? Check tire pressure and take a ride providing roads aren't salted heavily. Never had a starting issue in the spring.

you mean they actually salt the roads in Ohio. Must be something new.

[Johndeeredoo]

It helps to turn the drive belt inside out for winter too.....reduces memory in it

Well I remove my belt on my can-am skidoo, maybe I should do it on my can-am spyder too?

[Mazo EMS2]

Well I remove my belt on my can-am skidoo, maybe I should do it on my can-am spyder too?

LOL, I know a lot of people who do the same. I never did, and didn't ever wish I had.....No more sled for us though....It just doesn't snow enough around here anymore.