25k service on a Hornet, I was quite surprised to find that you are supposed to check the valve clearances, for shim under bucket, this doesn't seem to be much - the Triumph Daytona is 40k and mine have never moved in over 100k. Anyway, removed all the miriad of tubes and pipes on top of the cam cover, and loosened the radiator to be able to squeeze the feeler gauge in. What do you know, 2 inlet and one exhaust valve out of spec. (Too small), shit and of course I need to remove the cams to get at them. Oh well you win some and you lose some. The specs say inlet=0.2 +/- 0.03 and exhaust=0.28+/-0.03 where do they get these sizes from, who has a feeler gauge of 0.28 mms anyway? Perhaps they are given in inches originally?
The rest is pretty straight forward except the ABS gubbins goes right under the steering column so impossible to use my front end stand to lift the wheel off the ground, so it will have to be a block of wood jacked under the exhaust headers or maybe I can get to the sump which has to be stronger - right?
No comments:
Post a Comment