New guy with a question

[XSokieSPECIAL]

even if you find one that works correctly, you turn your motor until the cam lobe pushes the valve all the way open, use the tool to lock it in place there, then rotate your motor (Meaning.. move your pistons up and down with a valve held wide open..) while you rotate the cam lobe out of the way.

Some may be scared to loosen the cam caps, but that scenario using the tool personally scares me more.

Tod

Ummmm....hey Tod, if it gets REALLY hard to turn........FREAKIN' STOP! You've gone too far!

You just have to feel for the edge of the bucket on it's way down, lock the tool, and reverse the direction of the crankshaft.

[bikerphil]

DB, I can't find it at the moment, I think I lent it to another member (CRS). IIRC, I had to grind the inner part of the curve closest to the cam, and also enlarge both of the holes for holding the tool in place. I'll take a pic. once I locate it.

[Yahman]

I will say you don't need any of these tools, and you don't need to loosen your cams. I watched and learned as Larry checked and adjusted mine with only a 1/4" tip screwdriver, and a couple of pieces of bondo spreading tools. Simple and easy. About an hour.

Not the same Larry, but that's how I adjust mine also.

Larry

[trbig]

Ummmm....hey Tod, if it gets REALLY hard to turn........FREAKIN' STOP! You've gone too far!

That's the problem. You can turn the motor at the crank VERY carefully. I guess because it's basically at the end of a fulcrom when the piston is up at the top of it's compression stroke and the valves are very weak to sideways movement, but you'll never feel the piston and valve make contact. You'll just all of a sudden have huge gaps between the cam and shim.

Go ahead... ask me how I know. lol.


Tod

[XS1100 Newbie]

uh ya, sorry Yahman i meant the Larry in Kelso.

[bikerphil]

As promised, pics of ground down valve shim tool....

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Mine worked fine right out of the box..............go figure.


BTW....master of SEXology.....how do you know. Take the plugs out and you don't HAVE to fight the compression.

[dbeardslee]

Phil - that makes a lot of sense. Would also explain why I have always had bad luck with the tool - must not have been clearing the cams.