First I gotta tell ya I worked as a mechanic for ten years and then went to a factory service support environment. For he last 15 plus years I have managed a service engineering team. We ensure support and serviceability of our products. Let me say somewhere in Japan there is a service engineer that should rot in hell. Timing marks on the outside of the cam indeed....
After wrestling that damn tensioner and wishing I was an octopus (Greg The Pole described it as needing three hands and was dead bang on) for an hour the light bulb finally went off..
I rested the tensioner on a block of wood in the drill press, plunger up. Chucked up a 1/4 extension and a 11 mm (I think) socket. Set the speed at slowest, and turned it on and pushed that prick right down in there. Gave the clip a flick of my finger and done in 5 seconds. No pic's, sorry.
Every other thing on the bike is stellar, and the manual even has the tips in it I have learned through literally decades of wrenching. But the detail of the valve adj necessities is a huge miss. Thank goodness it only needs it every 26k.
Intakes were 3 at .005 and one at a loose .004, in spec. Exhaust were 3 at .008 and one at .007. all tight. 2 200 and 2 204 shims on exh. All 209 shims on intake.
After wrestling that damn tensioner and wishing I was an octopus (Greg The Pole described it as needing three hands and was dead bang on) for an hour the light bulb finally went off..
I rested the tensioner on a block of wood in the drill press, plunger up. Chucked up a 1/4 extension and a 11 mm (I think) socket. Set the speed at slowest, and turned it on and pushed that prick right down in there. Gave the clip a flick of my finger and done in 5 seconds. No pic's, sorry.
Every other thing on the bike is stellar, and the manual even has the tips in it I have learned through literally decades of wrenching. But the detail of the valve adj necessities is a huge miss. Thank goodness it only needs it every 26k.
Intakes were 3 at .005 and one at a loose .004, in spec. Exhaust were 3 at .008 and one at .007. all tight. 2 200 and 2 204 shims on exh. All 209 shims on intake.
