just rebuild my motor and now I'm gonna take it in to get it timed, just wondering what others have paid to get there timing adjusted?
Hi, welcome to the forum. :thumb:
You may want to make a thread to introduce yourself and maybe post a pic of your bike as a bit of forum etiquette. What model GS do you have so we can better answer your question. Here is the way to do it for the older bikes -
You can do it yourself for free if you feel mechanical - http://beergarage.com/GSTiming.aspx
awesome, thanks, I will def. do that!
Shot video of Adfalchius' top end rebuild this weekend, hopefully have it edited and up on youtube later this week.
-Jessie
Are we talking about adjusting the cam timing? Just to stock, or fine tuning it e.g. degreeing the cams?
Definitely worth doing yourself if you're up for it(and if you rebuilt your motor, resetting the timing should be cake). If you're not sure about it, I'd take it somewhere so you don't take any chances with your valves, it shouldn't cost more than 1-1.5 hours of labor for a shop, even less if you take your bike to them with the tank/airbox and all of that business removed.
and welcome to the forum!
Yeah I'm gonna try it once myself cuz the shops around here told me like 6 hours lol. And thanks for the welcome :cheers:
Quote from: loosifer07 on January 17, 2012, 04:15:01 PM
Yeah I'm gonna try it once myself cuz the shops around here told me like 6 hours lol. And thanks for the welcome :cheers:
haha, avoid those shops with your life. The mechanics must have their dogs doing engine work if it takes 6 hours to reset timing. Pull the tank, airbox, move a few cables/hoses, pull the valve cover, pull the side engine case, rotate the engine to TDC, loosen the timing chain, set the cams in the right position and button it all back up. I've done it on my YZ a number of times and the whole process is an hour start to finish. I'm sure the GS is a little more work, but in no way should it take a professional 6 times as long as it takes me, they're trying to scam you. The only reason it might take 6 hours is if they wanted to pull the whole engine to do it, but there's no reason for that.
Did the last part of the video first which has setting the cam timing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfkhLE0Cog&feature=youtu.be
Good luck :thumb:
-Jessie
Edit: About 5 minutes in