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Title: Valve Adjustment
Post by: can_rizla+. on June 28, 2007, 09:00:43 AM
OK so i got my bike back from the dealership (first service) and it was around 380$ CAN. I am wondering if i can do what they did to save that money the next time...? :2guns:
Title: Re: Valve Adjustment
Post by: The Antibody on June 28, 2007, 09:15:47 AM
Yes. You can do much of it. Buy a Haynes manual.

  -Anti  8)
Title: Re: Valve Adjustment
Post by: Johnny5 on June 28, 2007, 09:27:08 AM
Plenty of people here do their own valves... I have not been brave enough (yet).  People say it's easy, and it looks somewhat easy(I guess) based on Kerry's video... I guess it just depends how comfortable you are working with engine internals.
Title: Re: Valve Adjustment
Post by: patwcon on June 28, 2007, 11:11:00 AM
If you just got your bike back from your first service... not sure why you would want to go anywhere near the valves...
Title: Re: Valve Adjustment
Post by: natedawg120 on June 28, 2007, 12:13:14 PM
Its really easy and I can check/adjust then myself with an allen wrench, feeler guages, a rachet set that could have come from walmart, a screwdriver and a handy set of plyers for hose clamps, in about 45 minutes.  Check the wiki and watch the video, its really not hard if you want to save several hundred dollars.

-Nate