Stiff Centre & Side Stand..

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Pressure washer on bikes is never a great idea in my opinion.
You're either forcing water into places that really don't want it, or blowing paint off.

Calm down girls,i was only passing on what works for me and if used properly a pressure washer used on a motorcycle is actually invaluable, and the pressure washer scaremongers have usually never used one.In nearly 30 years of biking ive used one on nearly every bike ive owned and never had water ingress into a suspension or wheel bearing,even my boys mx bikes have never been damaged from a pressure washers use as it needs cleaning after every outing.As for blowing paint off,you probably shouldnt be allowed to use a mechanically propelled vehicle if youve not got the sense to put a pressure washer lance an inch from your body work. The linkeages on the fazer are stripped and checked and regreased twice a year as its used every day and id notice if there was any water ingress in them.

Yup. This talk of blasting the crap out, and doing it every two weeks - well that's why you're doing it every 2 weeks! Clean it properly, get some decent grease in there. Wd40 is not a lubricant!

If youd bothered to read the post properly i said i put some wd in the cetre stand  when i lubed the chain, not go through the whole cleaning process every two weeks and yes once a year the pin is removed and regreased which funnily enough hasnt been killed to death with the pressure washer.

Sometimes so called "solutions" only create problems.
As said follow the advice already given about stripping,cleaning,greasing.
You cant overtighten the mount bolts for centre stand since they are only threaded for a certain distance-the midsection acts as pivot for the stand.
WD40 has its uses but is NOT suitable for lubricating areas that require GREASE.
While you are dismantling stand-there is NO OTHER Way to lubricate it properly-thats why it gets "forgotten"-check for structural integrity-ie that its not corroded/weakened to the point where the legs move out of alignment.
Its cheaper & safer in the long run to do the job properly-a collapsed stand is not funny! :eek

Sometimes so called solutions actually work and dont create problems 5 years and 27000 miles of fazer ownership ridden every day with no problems,the reason the pivot hasnt fractured as they do on some is because its properly maintained.And i guess you guys who say wd isnt a lubricant perhaps you should buy a tin cuz  as i rembeber it says frees sticky mechanisms on the tin :lol