valves timing

[brownbear1000]

on a 79 xs1100 i check the cam marks and thay are by the arows and the crank is on the T mark but my valve clearncs is in the 004 to 008 level after resetting the valves how do i get the spacers out

[Dennyz]

You will need a special tool that holds the valve down, so you can remove the shim.

I purchased mine at a local bike shop.

Check the tech tips on this site.

[brownbear1000]

valve timing

can not find one called all bicke shops by me

[Dennyz]

Hang on the line with this. I am sure someone will have some suggestions on where to get one.

There has been many threads on this topic. You might search past posts.

I did not find anything in "Tech Tips" and I bought mine over 20 years ago.

[Dennyz]

There is one for sale on eBay

eBay - valve tool link

[trbig]

The easiest thing for me since I ordered the tool and it was a piece of &^%$... was just measure what you have (Write everything down), pull the cams out, look at the shim numbers and see what is needed. You will usually only need a few shims since one you take off will probably need to go on one of the others. Make sure you put the numbers on the shims face down against the bucket.

Before you do all that though, you may want to pull the plugs and crank it over a few times to make sure that's what you're reading and something just isn't sticky from the installation.

How did you re-seat your valves? It almost looks like you worked on them a bit too much and they seated deeper into the valve seat... closing the distance between the shim and cam. Did you use a power tool?

Tod

[mro]

valve tool

Got the motion pro tool from bikebandit.
Did not work too good out of the box, so did the "mod" to it as was posted here......
works fine now


mro