VALES NEED ADJUSTING
May 17, 2006 | 10:54 PM
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VALES NEED ADJUSTING
piece of cake, buy a manual to help.
First, let the machine sit overnight in a garage, and dont start it up at all until you get done with this service.
take the gas tank off, so you can take the valve cover off the top of the engine. take the valve cover off.
remove the shiny metal plug on the right side of the engine, it's by the brake lever. It has like a 7mm allen hex in it.
take that out, and using the recoil, turn the motor over until you see a "T" mark lined up in the hole. Now pull up and down on the rocker arms that were under the valve cover. If there's any slack, you're in the right spot. If there is no slack yet, turn the motor another 360 degrees with the recoil until the "T" mark comes up again in the hole, now there should be some slack in the rocker arms.
Keep the "T" mark lined up in that hole for this to properly work, in other words, dont turn the engine over at all.
When you get slack in the rocker arms, simply use a feeler-guage of .006" and slide it between the valve stem and the rocker arm. If it doesnt slide in, the valves are too tight. Loosen the nut and using a screwdriver, turn the screw thing the nut holds. turn it left for looser, right for tighter. tighten down the lock nut again and keep checking until both valves are adjusted so the feeler guage slides in and out with some resistance. A .007 should not slide in at all (unless you really cram it in there), and a .005 should feel loose compared to the .006. If you achieve this point, make sure both lock nuts are tight. Then make sure the valve cover gasket is in place and the O-ring on the top of the oil passage is in place. Then simply reassemble, remember to put in the shiny metal cap thing.
test drive and make sure it runs right.
First, let the machine sit overnight in a garage, and dont start it up at all until you get done with this service.
take the gas tank off, so you can take the valve cover off the top of the engine. take the valve cover off.
remove the shiny metal plug on the right side of the engine, it's by the brake lever. It has like a 7mm allen hex in it.
take that out, and using the recoil, turn the motor over until you see a "T" mark lined up in the hole. Now pull up and down on the rocker arms that were under the valve cover. If there's any slack, you're in the right spot. If there is no slack yet, turn the motor another 360 degrees with the recoil until the "T" mark comes up again in the hole, now there should be some slack in the rocker arms.
Keep the "T" mark lined up in that hole for this to properly work, in other words, dont turn the engine over at all.
When you get slack in the rocker arms, simply use a feeler-guage of .006" and slide it between the valve stem and the rocker arm. If it doesnt slide in, the valves are too tight. Loosen the nut and using a screwdriver, turn the screw thing the nut holds. turn it left for looser, right for tighter. tighten down the lock nut again and keep checking until both valves are adjusted so the feeler guage slides in and out with some resistance. A .007 should not slide in at all (unless you really cram it in there), and a .005 should feel loose compared to the .006. If you achieve this point, make sure both lock nuts are tight. Then make sure the valve cover gasket is in place and the O-ring on the top of the oil passage is in place. Then simply reassemble, remember to put in the shiny metal cap thing.
test drive and make sure it runs right.
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