Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
Forum rules
Please can you post items for sale or wanted in the correct For Sale section. Items / bikes for sale here will be removed without warning. Reasons for this are in the FAQ. Thanks
Please can you post items for sale or wanted in the correct For Sale section. Items / bikes for sale here will be removed without warning. Reasons for this are in the FAQ. Thanks
-
- Settled in member
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:01 pm
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
hi sorry another one for the list could i get a copy as well please? cups79@live.co.uk Thanks :)
-
- Settled in member
- Posts: 121
- Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:13 pm
- Location: Barnsley
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
here you go mate, i feel sorry for the lad that keeps sending em :)
Damien
Damien
-
- Settled in member
- Posts: 161
- Joined: Thu May 22, 2008 12:03 am
- Location: Dublin
- Contact:
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
Any tips on removing the shims without a magnet, Halfords and Mcquillans didn't have any.
-
- Moderators
- Posts: 1798
- Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:25 am
- Bike owned: VFR400RR, CBR1000RR6
- Location: Belfast, Norn Iron
- Contact:
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
A dod of grease on a flat-head screw-driver, but you can't beat the magnetic pen though. Just be very careful.Lasse wrote:Any tips on removing the shims without a magnet, Halfords and Mcquillans didn't have any.
Ducati 916, not worth a carrott
- Sligeach
- Site Supporter
- Posts: 690
- Joined: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:02 pm
- Bike owned: '90 NC30 - '12 Stripe R
- Location: Sutton, Surrey
- Contact:
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
not a chance in hell i would go at it with anything but a magnetic pen.
like gareth says that dab of grease trick is recommended by the haynes manual.
its not that hard to get the cam covers off and get the TDC right and all the rest of it, the measuring of the shim tolerances isnt even that hard, but taking them out and then putting shim back in is near on impossible by yourself and close to possible with a helper. ( i do have very fat fingers tho!!)
my advise is hang on for another day or two and get the magnet before you go at it.
like gareth says that dab of grease trick is recommended by the haynes manual.
its not that hard to get the cam covers off and get the TDC right and all the rest of it, the measuring of the shim tolerances isnt even that hard, but taking them out and then putting shim back in is near on impossible by yourself and close to possible with a helper. ( i do have very fat fingers tho!!)
my advise is hang on for another day or two and get the magnet before you go at it.
- yayoboy
- Settled in member
- Posts: 189
- Joined: Wed May 14, 2008 9:33 pm
- Location: Stourbridge, West Midlands
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
ill take a copy to please seanjess@blueyonder.co.uk
thanks :D
thanks :D
91 nc30, 97 cr 250, 98 rm 250, still need more!
-
- One Hit Wonder
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:00 am
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
could i please get a copy sent to me
justinlykke@hotmail.com
if there isnt a writeup about balancing carbs yet could you tell me in which order to balance the carbs?
justinlykke@hotmail.com
if there isnt a writeup about balancing carbs yet could you tell me in which order to balance the carbs?
- Sligeach
- Site Supporter
- Posts: 690
- Joined: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:02 pm
- Bike owned: '90 NC30 - '12 Stripe R
- Location: Sutton, Surrey
- Contact:
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
forwarded on buckos
- oliherst
- Settled in member
- Posts: 160
- Joined: Tue May 06, 2008 8:36 am
- Location: Surrey, UK
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
Sorry to bump but really need these, could someone ping them over to me?
oliherst(at)hotmail.com
Thanks!
oliherst(at)hotmail.com
Thanks!

- yayoboy
- Settled in member
- Posts: 189
- Joined: Wed May 14, 2008 9:33 pm
- Location: Stourbridge, West Midlands
Re: Guides on checking valve clearances, and balancing carbs?
mail sent oli
91 nc30, 97 cr 250, 98 rm 250, still need more!