Nothing wrong with a proper service check, and hopefully didn't sound discouraging. It's pretty easy once you gain access to the valve train. Just in my experience I've haven't found one yet that's been out of spec (that's outta 5 so far)
To make it easy, the piston doesn't have to be TDC or even a compression stroke. Do all intake valves first (doesn't matter, I just like to run down one side first). . Remove all the plugs. Rotate engine (in normal running direction only). Watch the first set of rockers, keep turning until valves open. Keep rotating watch the rocker rise until it no longer moves up. Your now ready to check and adjust. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 23, 2016, at 9:57 PM, EGrider <[email protected]> wrote: > > No shims; the bike ('84 V30 Magna) has rocker arms. > > I don't know about getting out of whack, but I thought that they needed to be > adjusted periodically to make sure that they don't gap open, leading to > blowback and worse. Since the valves are not self adjusting and the bike has > 34K miles on it, I thought I might do things right for once in my life and > actually see what adjusting valves is all about. Since you have to remove the > tank, radiator, coils, frame cross member, etc. to do the job, I would much > rather just throw the carbs back on. I decided to practice on the parts bike, > like I said, because I have no big reason to put it back together right if I > find I'm biting off more than I can chew. So far, maybe I am. > > I'm also going to change the fork seals. Never done this job either. I've > been riding the thing with no oil and no pressure in the forks since I bought > it years ago. Doesn't really bother me, but it won't cost much to put Chinese > seals in it. A guy says he'll trade me his '94 PC800 for it, and this sounds > like a trade that's worth doing. I rode his bike last year this time when I > was looking around at PC800s. He wanted too much for it so I let it slide, > but now he got back in touch with me and wants to do the deal. I'm trying to > fix the few things it needs to get the deal as close as possible to an even > trade. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
