DS1000 Valve Adjustment

[billg69gmc]

OK, the problem is that I am an idiot.  The keepers were not fully seated, so the closer shim was causing the closer rocker to bind on the cam shaft.  You need to really snap that closer rocker to seat the collets.  Yes, it shows this in the video, and I thought I was doing it right, but I just wasn't snapping it hard enough.

On to the next valve....

More importantly, you are less of an idiot now than you were the moment before you figured it out. And for that you are now smarter than the next guy who has not learned that lesson. Congrats!!!

BTW, i prefer to call it "challenged". While I did not decide on getting a Duc totally blind, I knew that there would be things to learn of which I had no clue of. And there is still much to learn... and with advice/help from great folks like the DMF, I know that I'm very thankful to everyone.

I will definitely remember, "It's easier to drop your keys, than it is to pick them up", next time I shoot a keeper across the garage. That still doesn't beat my ultimate boof... Setting my shim kit on my roll around seat where I managed to bump it, spill the entire contents on the floor, and have to measure every one of them to put them back in the kit. Now THAT was what being an idiot is all about!

Good luck finishing up!

[Ivan]

... and with advice/help from great folks like the DMF, I know that I'm very thankful to everyone.

I will definitely remember, "It's easier to drop your keys, than it is to pick them up", next time I shoot a keeper across the garage. That still doesn't beat my ultimate boof... Setting my shim kit on my roll around seat where I managed to bump it, spill the entire contents on the floor, and have to measure every one of them to put them back in the kit. Now THAT was what being an idiot is all about!

Yes, this place is a wealth of information.  I'm thankfull! 

Dumping your shim kit, that is a classic.

The horiz cyl is done, tomorrow I'll start on the vertical cyl.

[aaronb]

OK, the problem is that I am an idiot.  The keepers were not fully seated, so the closer shim was causing the closer rocker to bind on the cam shaft.  You need to really snap that closer rocker to seat the collets.  Yes, it shows this in the video, and I thought I was doing it right, but I just wasn't snapping it hard enough.

On to the next valve....

lol, i did my first adjustment this summer on my s2r1k.  took me about an hour of cursing and swearing to figure out why the cam wouldn't turn 360 deg after installing my first closer shim.  i found that pressing on the collet (enough to compress the lash spring) with a very small flat screwdriver was the easiest way to seat them.   

[brad black]

It's a lot easier to drop your keys than it is to pick 'em up. 

i dropped my keys into a bowl one time.  not the good type.

[bigiain]

i dropped my keys into a bowl one time.

I've heard about those sort of parties...   

big

[ellingly]

I've heard about those sort of parties...   

big

Yeah, you know they've gone bad when someone's riding off on your Monster and you're stuck with some lardy-arsed Japanese sports-tourer.

[Gus Duc]

Nice work Ivan

I'll see you in 6,000 miles

p.s.  You should have installed some MBP collets...... there's no mistaking when the rocker snaps closed with those babies

[Ivan]

Nice work Ivan

I'll see you in 6,000 miles

p.s.  You should have installed some MBP collets...... there's no mistaking when the rocker snaps closed with those babies

Gus, where ya been?  Next time I am going to use the MBP collets.   Yesterday I found that one of the collets on the vertical intake was broken.