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yay, just checked my valves

Started by Church6360, March 09, 2006, 03:20:30 PM

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Church6360

just made it home to where my bike is stored, chacked valves last night.

intake left
Gap .102
current shim 2.55
will replace with 2.60

intake right
Gap .102
current shim 2.60
will replace with 2.65

Exhaust left
Gap .178
current shim 2.50
will replace with 2.60

Exhaust right
Gap .178
current shim 2.50
will replace with 2.60

It needs some love.
The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body. It is that simple: If you ride fast and crash, you are a bad rider. And if you are a bad rider, you should not ride motorcycles.
-Hunter S. Thompson

scratch

You only need three new shims; 2x260 and a 265.  You can use the 260 out of the No.2 cyl intake to use on one of the others; do that one first. :thumb:
The motorcycle is no longer the hobby, the skill has become the hobby.

Power does not compare to skill.  What good is power without the skill to use it?

QuoteOriginally posted by Wintermute on BayAreaRidersForum.com
good judgement trumps good skills every time.

Church6360

i only had time to check them this time, next time i head home i'll have the shims with me that i need, then i can put it all back together. i miss riding. good call on reusing the 260.  :thumb:
The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body. It is that simple: If you ride fast and crash, you are a bad rider. And if you are a bad rider, you should not ride motorcycles.
-Hunter S. Thompson

Ed89

Just a suggestion here:  You might want to actually measure the thickness of the current shim instead of trusting the printed numbers (if that was in fact what you were doing).

Cheers,
e.

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