riceburner wrote:Bollox
Bought the wrong pump
P/n of the original is 0 580 453 495
Damn.
Hmm - well - I went ahead and swapped the pump in anyway, if for no other reason than it was a good way to figure out HOW to do the job. Surprisingly easy actually once I got my head around it.
Motorworks don't seem to like breaking up the entire assembly (
https://www.motorworks.co.uk/vlive/Shop ... Q=TAT50461 - see their comments), but with the right tools it's simple.
Sorry I didn't stop for photos, but here's the drill:
Remove the assembly from the tank, making sure you note the breather pipes connections which you need to remove in order to work on the assembly away from the tank. (The breather pipes internal to the tank can stay there).
Remove the fuel line from the output pipe of the pump. I used a small flat-bladed screwdriver to loosen the crimp-clamp on the hose to achieve this.
Remove the electrical connection from the pump (easy)
Remove the outer strainer mesh from the base of the pump: To do with this without breaking anything, I used gently applied leverage to the plastic fitting with a small flat-bladed screwdriver and eventually it popped off. There is a metal c-clip type arrangement that tightens around a pin that protrudes from the pump body - you need the leverage to work this c-clip off the pin. Just go slow and gently and you can lever it off.
Remove the pump body from the assembly: This is achieved using a pair of plumbers pliers / slip-joint pliers or similar. The plastic ring that holds the pump in place has 3 clips 'below' the metal ring in which it sits - you need to depress these clips towards the pump body, while using the plumbers pliers with 1 jaw on the upper part of the metal ring, and the other jaw under the lower half of the plastic ring (NOT on one of the 3 depressable clips). With the pliers providing a squeeze - the plastic ring slides out of position quite easily. Just do 2 or 3 squeeze operations in different places around the ring and you can remove it easily. There's also a rubber o-ring between the pump and the lower metal ring, don't lose it.
In the immortal words of our good lord Haynes... "Refitting is the reverse sequence to removal".
The hard part is getting the damned mesh strainer on without breaking any part of the plastic lug. I ended up GENTLY using a large-ish G-clamp to provide the appropriate pressure to get the damned c-clip in the strainer assembly to go over the pin on the pump.
End result - although the new pump is still whining slightly, the bike responds MUCH better than it did, and will pull 3 figure speeds just like my old bike (ahem, on private roads, naturally
). I may still invest in a John Gemi chip once I get the rest of the bike sorted out, but I'm happy with the new pump now.
(2)-S1000XR 
