Chain Adjustment

How do you adjust the chain on a 2005 VFR 800?

 

You have to remove the swing arm and replace it with a longer one..

 

lol @ rogue. There should be a type of spanner wrench in your tool kit, it looks like a half moon with a tooth on one end. Loosen the pinch bolt on the rear hub, then put the wrench on the adjusting ring and move it down to tighten or up to loosen the chain. You owners manual should also explain how to do this.

Also go here: http://vfrworld.com/forums/maintenance/3978-adjusting-your-chain.html
I did this on a 3rd gen (1993) but they should be similar.

 

Hey I like Rogues approach but yea it's like all the vfrs, get it up on the center stand, spin the rear wheel and feel the chain on the lower mid point for the tightest place. use a 17mm on the pinch bolt only takes a couple turns to loosen it up, do not take it out. then as V-man says, you use the hook spanner in your tool kit. it goes behind - between the sprocket and the hub you'll see some tabs, the hook part of the spanner hooks on those tabs, once you have that in place it's a slight tap on the end of the spanner, doesn't take much maybe a tap or two, it's not going to take a quarter turn. then re spin the wheel, checking the chain you should have at the tightest spot on the chain something between a lose 3/4" to a tad over an inch slop. once done with that tighten up the pinch bolt a strong tug on that is all thats necessary. then to make sure all went well sit on the bike and do a double check. It might take two people for this, thing is a chain gets tighter once you sit / load up a bike. a tight chain is as bad as a lose one. Once you've done this a few times it's pretty straight forward, not that big of a deal. Hope that helps. Oh and if all else fails, read the owners manual..

 

Lol, noob answers. Everyone knows you have to cut out the necessary links and then re-fasten it with zip-ties. Jeez.

 

Thanks for all you help. I'll try this.

 

A tight chain is a lot worse than a loose one - it gets HOT! what I do is adjust it to feel pretty loose on the center stand after finding the tightest part of the chain, put it on the sidestand and lay over the seat on my stomach and check the slop with my hand. The bottom run of the chain should push down a little then hit the rubber above it using a little pressure - if you have to pull up hard to hit the rubber it's too tight.

 

Actually, according to the manual, the chain is to be adjusted with the rear wheel on the ground. Is it different for 6th gens?

 

The purpose for putting it on the center stand is to find the tightest spot, then adjust with the wheel on the ground.

 

Ok, but when I read my manual, it never said to put it up on the center stand. It seems to me that if you put it up on the stand, find the tightest spot, then put the wheel on the ground to adjust it, the tight spot will not be in the same place. Maybe it can be done either way. I was just going by what my manual had said as I thought it had somethign to do with it having a sssa. I know if you have a conventional swing-arm, the rear wheel should be off the ground in order to help in keeping the chain in alignment, but the sssa does not have that issue. Either way, it's pretty easy to adjust.

 

Dude, man it's way easier with the bikeon the center stand to find out how the chain is. Try pushing the bike then check push the bike some more then check. Get to the chase by putting it up on the center stand in the first place, Second since I've done it Soooo Much, I have it down pat, I do also check, I believe I said that with a load and of course it's on the ground by then.. LOL Duh!!!

 

I spit out a mouth full of coffe on this one !!! LOL LOL :tongue: :wink: :smile: :rapture: