Valve Adjustment FORM
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This worksheet will be a good tool. Thanks!
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Use the link above for the excel spreed sheet.
I know this thread a few years old but I'd prefer not to start a new one for no reason. Does anyone have a set of feelers they recommend for valve checks? Most of the ones available from amazon/harbor freight arent granular enough to get good measurements. Furthermore, can you lap shims on a piece of glass with high grit sand paper to adjust the size to get smack in the middle of the clearance range?
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Feeler gauges, the micrometer, and the shims obviously all interact to get the clearance. Whatever the lowest resolution part of that is, is realistically the ‘slop’ you will have between your goal and what you can accomplish.
Shims? I’ll beat RiversZZR to the punch. No. Do NOT try to adjust the thickness.
Buy Honda shims individually at half the price of Kawasaki parts.
The shim kits you can buy on line are the parts Kawasaki and the other mfg have rejected. Not a single part will be at the center of the bin it’s assigned.
Shims? I’ll beat RiversZZR to the punch. No. Do NOT try to adjust the thickness.
Buy Honda shims individually at half the price of Kawasaki parts.
The shim kits you can buy on line are the parts Kawasaki and the other mfg have rejected. Not a single part will be at the center of the bin it’s assigned.
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Let me make a couple corrections to the above statement...........
OEM shims from any OEM dealer that comes from the manufacturer ( Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Triumph, Ducati to name the for sures....) are hardened steel all the way through! Yes OEM 7.5 mm shims from any of the manufacturers fit all the other manufacturers 7.5mm shims, as will the 9.5mm, 13mm, 20mm, 25mm etc---they most certainly are all made at one plant and then sold to the oems.........
Yes OEM HONDA shims do cost about 60% of what OEM KAWASAKI cost, and the only time you will be forced to buy OEM KAWASAKI at the higher price is when you need shims larger thickness than 2.95mm, so yes absolutely do yourself a favor and buy brand new shims from the Honda dealer!!!
always brand new!!!!!!!!!!-- why brand new, I have zero doubt dealership bean counters have them buying the same chineseum garbage to put in bikes for the unknowing and uncaring and they throw the shitty chineseum back in their bin of shims to be reused multiple times -dented and all with zero fucks given........... product of greed and stupidity and idiots who do not care about your motorcycle!!!
The shim "kits" you buy online (all of them!!!!!!!) are shit quality surface only hardened (usually to .001" or less of hardness and not even that hard) garbage produced in China made from chineseum garbage trash steel, they are super soft in the middle and rarely are the diameter they represent nor the thickness they claim----------- CHINESEUM TRASH is to be refused and never used for any and all reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT SUPPORT CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the oems like Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha and Triumph have and will reject warranty if they find non oem shims installed as they know the chineseum trash doesn't work and have casued valve train issues
There is the right process to harden the shims all the way through on good tool steel---OEM shims made in Japan..........
then there is the substantially cheaper process to surface harden only over shitty quality steel----- everything chineseum trash!!!!!!
OEM shims from any OEM dealer that comes from the manufacturer ( Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Triumph, Ducati to name the for sures....) are hardened steel all the way through! Yes OEM 7.5 mm shims from any of the manufacturers fit all the other manufacturers 7.5mm shims, as will the 9.5mm, 13mm, 20mm, 25mm etc---they most certainly are all made at one plant and then sold to the oems.........
Yes OEM HONDA shims do cost about 60% of what OEM KAWASAKI cost, and the only time you will be forced to buy OEM KAWASAKI at the higher price is when you need shims larger thickness than 2.95mm, so yes absolutely do yourself a favor and buy brand new shims from the Honda dealer!!!
always brand new!!!!!!!!!!-- why brand new, I have zero doubt dealership bean counters have them buying the same chineseum garbage to put in bikes for the unknowing and uncaring and they throw the shitty chineseum back in their bin of shims to be reused multiple times -dented and all with zero fucks given........... product of greed and stupidity and idiots who do not care about your motorcycle!!!
The shim "kits" you buy online (all of them!!!!!!!) are shit quality surface only hardened (usually to .001" or less of hardness and not even that hard) garbage produced in China made from chineseum garbage trash steel, they are super soft in the middle and rarely are the diameter they represent nor the thickness they claim----------- CHINESEUM TRASH is to be refused and never used for any and all reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT SUPPORT CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the oems like Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha and Triumph have and will reject warranty if they find non oem shims installed as they know the chineseum trash doesn't work and have casued valve train issues
There is the right process to harden the shims all the way through on good tool steel---OEM shims made in Japan..........
then there is the substantially cheaper process to surface harden only over shitty quality steel----- everything chineseum trash!!!!!!
The thing is the feeler guages I see online and in the stores are such low granularity that it often is the difference between being too loose and too tight. I need a nice set of professional grade feelers that have very small increments. And only reason I ask about the shim adjustment is back in my WR250 days people would lap shims to get the right size without any issue.
link seems to be broken!
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Hi guys can any1 help
I have a 2002 636
I can now hear a quite ticking on the left side from riding postion,
It has full service history and its on 13k will it be the cct or the valves???
I have a 2002 636
I can now hear a quite ticking on the left side from riding postion,
It has full service history and its on 13k will it be the cct or the valves???
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