remove radiators to adjust valves?

Has anyone taken out the little choke spring thing? I cant realy picture what they are talking about. How the heck do you safty wire spokes? I wonder what my bike would feel like with 10 extra horse power, Maybe I will install the power up kit during the 50,000 mile top end rebuild! I doubt it though. I still owe more than the sticker price of my bike more than two years after buying it! I am never buying a new bike again! I saw a built 07 on craigs list for 2900 dollars! Im getting way off topic though, good info Bump, thanks. -Matt

Good stuff from Ogilvie. Thanks Bump.

Matt:

I picked up my '02 pig today, but left the mechanic the old parts. I did scope them out, though.

Apparently, if you are a dumbass like me, the first things to go when running low on oil are the rockers and cam. The cam lobes looked somewhat torched and a bit scarred. They ate up the bottom of the rockers, causing a slight clearance issue. I was very lucky to sustain such little damage.

All is well now. I just rattled the neighborhood windows on a test ride (it's all good - the neighbors do the same to my windows ), and she's running great.

I'm going to sell this one and grab a trailer to haul my other one around for those occasional long distance hauls to other states.

Dave

But if you are talking about terrain I'd guess the sand guys could. Or one of those long sand washes near Cal City could easily be a fourth gear flat out rooster tale for miles. Not so much for you folks who live with trees.

mamacone wrote:Who is capable of running the pig flat out all the time? Nobody I know or have seen. Would like to see the results.

Rd650 wrote:Someone correct me if I am wrong. But the 650r has a tendency for the stock intake valves to sink into the seat taking up the clearance at the adjuster.

Yes the intake valves wear and slowly sink into the head thus taking up gap. They need to be loosened. Once they start to go it actually happeens faster and faster. Worst case is the valve surface get so thin the valve sucks up into the head all of a sudden. I rarely check the exhaust because they never seem to change. I'm having an intake valve only job being done right now.
XR Gene

How many miles did you go before this valve job? -Matt

Matthendurocat wrote:How many miles did you go before this valve job? -Matt

10-13 thousand miles.

XR Gene

I don't have to remove the radiators either. As above, just bend the feeler gauges.

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