Kawasaki Concours, 1986-2004

By: Clymer Publications

Whether its simple maintenance or complete restoration, do not start work without Clymer, the leader in service manuals. Save yourself time and frustration with these procedures and techniques used by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892878894
• ISBN13: 9780892878895
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Clymer Publishing
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Clear and Concise

Received my copy and performed my first oil change the next day. Clear and simple directions and diagrams were very helpful. Information and tips not included in owner's manual were a plus.

Excellent Manual

I am using this manual in conjunction with online forums to complete my own repairs and maintenance on a 23 year old motorcycle. I have no formal technical training or mechanical experience, but this book takes you step by step through each of the processes. It also has great parts diagrams and handy specification tables. This book is a huge help. I would recommend that anyone who has basic skills with a wrench and a screwdriver get one of these books. It is a great way to get to know your motorcycle, and to save lots of money. I have already saved over $200 in tune ups that I am doing myself, and having fun while doing it.

Typical flaws of a Clymer product

Like most Clymer products, this lacks a usable table of contents -- there are no page numbers within the major topics. Thus if you want to look up, say, adjusting the valves, you have to flip through pages to find it, because the contents lists that it's within a major topic (routine maintenance) and what order it's in there, but no page number. Also like most Clymer products, Clymer has a bizarre ritual of putting all torque values into a table at the end of the section. If you are reading along in adjusting valves, and you need to know how much torque to apply to the valve cover, Clymer doesn't tell you -- they simply say "torque the valve cover" and make you flip to the back of the section to see what to torque it to. And the section on spark plugs and what the color says about the fuel-air mixture is bizarre. The pictures are black and white, making it appear that spark plugs are supposed to be grey. Uhm, no, they should be tan. Somebody cheaped out on the color photography and made this section utterly useless. That said, despite these quirks, it is a usable and valuable reference and I do not work on my bike without it. In particular, the color circuit diagrams at the end of the text are far better than anything in the factory manual. And they even have a few tidbits of info not in the factory manual (not much, though -- they're basically the same info, re-organized into Clymer format). It's just irritating at times to run into the familiar Clymer flaws mentioned above... flaws that should have been fixed years ago.

Clymer Kawasaki Concours 1986-2004 Repair Manual

The Clymer manual is a good general purpose repair manual and provides sufficient photos and technical information essential for the shade tree mechanic to do the majority of repairs himself. I purchased an "on-line" manual for the Concours prior to purchasing the Clymer and the Clymer was much more informative and illustrative.