"Once the intake valves had gone down while turning the crank counter clockwise its time to look for the timing mark on the flywheel. The I mark will come up fast so go slow, also if you go past you will have to go all the way through the strokes again. Dont go clockwise."

I'm a little confused on this step can anyone explain it a little better. The rest i am fine with.

 

???? anyone i'm doing this tomarrow

 

Hey there, valve adjustment is easy, just follow the steps like others have said.

About your question, when you have the two little covers off you you can put a socket on the main nut, move it counter clockwise with a breaker bar very slowly and you'll notice a small line or "nick" in it, you have to align it with another little nick/line that is rotating in the smaller hole, make sure they line up perfectly, once you're done that you can pull the caps off and adjust the valves.

 

Have you checked cranking compression? That 01 Raptor could be in need of a rebuild.

 

real quick raptortranny.com did not say anything about removing the sparkplug whereas my manual did. Does it matter which i do and my quad did not come with the little tool kit

 

It will be a lot easier to turn over the engine without the spark plug. You might need to buy the special socket from your dealer.

 

alright so i need to just take the plug out not nessarily the sparkplug? I wanted to do it today with my friend and my dealer is pretty far away.

 

Did anybody see the part about the (MX boots) maybe your foot was on the rear brake with just enuff prease to take power away and you could not feel it in your boot But do adjust your valves as they might need it And as far as a little start up smoke thats ok as long as it stops smoking So try again without your boots and see if this helps

 

hey guys a little update. I tried doing the valves today with my friend was pretty easy but only made one mistake. When we were adjusting the valves we made them a little to loose. "let the feeler gauge slide in with little resistance" Anyway they were a little too loose and started tapping so tomarrow were goin to go at it again. It was really pretty easy tho. I would advise anyone to do it as long as they stay organized and have some knowledge. I was a little dissapointed that i didn't get it the first time but i learn int he process. Tomarrow ill get it done faster with my friend. Gotta make the valves a little tighter. Sucks because we put all the plastic back on.

 

and as long as u have the "I" lined up with the site its at TDC right?