SO I changed the oil and adjusted the valves, now during warm up the thing smokes like hell.


COuld I have screwed up a valve guide torguing on the valve adjustment nut????

Anybody got any Ideas???

 

sounds like somethig broke and oil is leeking into the cylinder.

 

where is the smoke coming from?

 

during warm up smoke coming from pipe.

Could be valve guide??? I was really carefull adjusting valves.....but I did feel one valve or rocker sort of shift during tightening of nut.....It could be I wiped the valve guide but...it did not seem like I put that much stress on it....

I'll check it tommorrow after motor gets cold and I recheck the valves....if it still smokes......I might have to yank the head.....bummer,...only 100 hours on it.....

 

My buddy's warrior smokes a bit during cold startup and for like the first 5 or 10 seconds but then it burns off and doesnt smoke anymore. does yours keep smoking?

 

what color smoke?

does it only do it with the choke on?

 

blue smoke with or without choke for about two minutes..

 

Well I readjusted the valves, I had two intake and one exhaust, that were only slightly loose, and changed oil again to fix a leak on the pipe from oil tank to engine..... and when I lit it off it had only a few seconds of blue smoke with choke off then it pretty much was gone after one minute...so I guess it's not as bad as I thought it was the other night...
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I will continue to keep and eye on it, but what I SAW today I don't think will a problem.....

The thing that I felt "moved" inside the tappet cover was probably just the rocker shifting back and forth on it's shaft.....I could not have applied any torgue or pressure on the actrual valve....