Q on measuring valve clearance
#2
make sure you are at tdc...you have the correct thinner feelers...should slide in starting with your thinner and working your way up until one feels a little difficult to get in...
#4
true...make sure you know what you a doing...make sure you scrape off all the factory silicone....light amount of sealer around the edge and little heavier on the half moons...put the valve cover back on....read more instructions and have a place you know sell individual shims or have a shim kit ready...make sure you use white out or nail polish to mark cam chain and cans before removal...
#5
Thanks Guys.
I have the correct shop manual and proper feeler gauges, and have done tappets before on an MG a number of years ago.
I believe I am at TDC with the crank rotated CCW until the sideways T is aligned with the notch at the top.
The only easily accessible cam is the LHS intake and there seems to be no clearance with any feeler gauge - even the really tinfoil widths.
Tomorrow I will take the bike to a local Kawi shop and see how they measure the clearances - already arranged.
Ensuring the correct vale clearances is a precursor to installing the CyclePro 330 kit sitting in the garage - for which I have a mechanic friend to help with.
So a Q within a Q - once the valves are correctly adjusted, them installing the 330 kit does not affect their setting - can you confirm this for me.
Elvie
I have the correct shop manual and proper feeler gauges, and have done tappets before on an MG a number of years ago.
I believe I am at TDC with the crank rotated CCW until the sideways T is aligned with the notch at the top.
The only easily accessible cam is the LHS intake and there seems to be no clearance with any feeler gauge - even the really tinfoil widths.
Tomorrow I will take the bike to a local Kawi shop and see how they measure the clearances - already arranged.
Ensuring the correct vale clearances is a precursor to installing the CyclePro 330 kit sitting in the garage - for which I have a mechanic friend to help with.
So a Q within a Q - once the valves are correctly adjusted, them installing the 330 kit does not affect their setting - can you confirm this for me.
Elvie