Valve Adjustment Notes

mckayprod · 11-02-2015, 08:23 PM

LOTS of trouble with this procedure today. I couldn't disconnect the electrical connector on the tank and couldn't figure out how to plug all those hose connections. So I left the tank on and got to the valvetrain from the sides. Not enough space for a vertical screwdriver so it was "rotate and pray" until the setting was right. I figure if my .051 mm gauge fits but my .064 mm doesn't, I'm OK. But those are really floppy feeler gauges...trying to slide one in the mostly invisible spot it has to go is, as we used to say in timber country, "like trying to push a logging chain uphill".

NOW, the bike won't start. It tries, but won't catch and run. So, did I get the valves too tight or too loose? Checked spark plug, etc. I suspect measurement error.

HELP, Magic Forum!

11-02-2015, 08:23 PM	#11
mckayprod Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Dixon, CA Posts: 75	Poor luck on my first adjustment LOTS of trouble with this procedure today. I couldn't disconnect the electrical connector on the tank and couldn't figure out how to plug all those hose connections. So I left the tank on and got to the valvetrain from the sides. Not enough space for a vertical screwdriver so it was "rotate and pray" until the setting was right. I figure if my .051 mm gauge fits but my .064 mm doesn't, I'm OK. But those are really floppy feeler gauges...trying to slide one in the mostly invisible spot it has to go is, as we used to say in timber country, "like trying to push a logging chain uphill". NOW, the bike won't start. It tries, but won't catch and run. So, did I get the valves too tight or too loose? Checked spark plug, etc. I suspect measurement error. HELP, Magic Forum!
	0