I am headed over to Dave's place Saturday morning for a valve service. Shultz just received some professional guidance with his valve job, so I figured I would pick his brain while the info is still fresh.
I think Rameses is coming over to. We will be starting around 10 AM and it will probably be a lengthy procedure (hopefully it'll go a little better than my last tire change
).
Even if you don't need have any maintenance or mods to do, feel free to stop by and listen to me make up some new words.
After putting in a set of keepers, I've decided that the Marquis de Sade invented the Desmo valve train.
Man, I used some words that would make my grandfather proud!!
My service took about 6 hours, and I sanded one opening shim, and adjusted a closing shim just by inserting new keepers. The job itself isn't too bad, but rather tedious. You must remove the seat, tank, battery, airbox, diconnect the throttle cable, lower the oil cooler and radiator, swing the battery tray aside, and raise/swing aside the throttle bodies -- so plan on taking your time.
Two-valve bikes should be a lot less work, so I'll be interested in seeing how it goes with your bike. If you have time, you might want to give it a good cleaning -- especially the engine -- before coming over.
I'd also recommend new valve cover gaskets (just in case), and new rocker cover gaskets. Barnett's had all these in stock (and the keepers) for my bike.
Oh, and I finally got to use my bearing puller. It worked fine to loosen the rocker pin so the cams could be removed. Next time, I'm going to get the pulley lock to keep the cam pulleys in place while fitting the belts (it's only $40 from Desmotimes), and a shim insert that makes measuring closing shims easier (because they have a recess). I did just order a digital micrometer, accurate to 0.0001".
