1986-1991 Kawasaki 650 X-2 Service Manual, Page 10Get this manual
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(16) Circlip, Retaining Ring Rep.lace any circlips and reta,ining rings that were removed with new ones, as removal weakens and deforms themWhen installing circlips and retaining rings, take care to compress or expand them only enough to install them and no more(17) Cotter Pin Replace any cotter pins that were removed with new ones, as removal, deform and breaks them(18) Lubrication Engine wear is generally at its maximum while the engine is warming up and befor,e all the rubbing surfaces have an adequate lubricative filmDuring assembly, oil or grease (whichever is more suitable) should be applied to any rubbing surface which has lost its lubricative film Old grease and dirty oil should be cleaned off Deteriorated gre.ase has lost its lubricative quality and may contain abrasive foreign particlesDon't use just ,any oil or greaseSome oils and greases in particular should be used only in certain applications and may be harmful if used in an application for which they are not intended(19) Electrical Wires All the electrj,cal wires are either single-color or two-color and, wi,th only few exceptions, must be connected to wires of the same colorOn any of the two-color wires there is great,er amount of one color and lesser amount of second color, so two-co'ior wire is identified by first the primary co,lor and then the secondary colorFor example, yell,ow wire with thin red strip,es is referred to as "yellowr,ed" wire; it would be "redyellow" wire if the colors were reversed to make red the main color