100k service

Nice Job:thumbsup: post up pictures regarding the starter valve, I am interested as I never got involved in one.

 

I did the starter valves today.
I do own a set of four vacuum gauges that I've used on all my carburated bikes for years, but I found them not accurate enough to do a proper job on the 5th gen.
I tried many times, but finally gave up.

I'm a refrigeration mechanic by trade, so have a lot of very expensive gauges at my disposal.
The down side is I only have a single gauge to work with, so it takes a lot of going back and forth, as any adjustment you make, affects the previous one.

Wait until the engine is hot before you start, I have a big blower fan that I set up on the front of the bike to keep it from overheating, you don't want to work on the bike above normal operating temperature.


Cylinder 1


Cylinder 2


Cylinder 3


Cylinder 4

As my gauge doesn't have mmHG, I use KPa converted, cylinders 1 and 2 need to be the same, cylinder 3 needs to be 2.6KPa lower then 1, and cylinder 4 needs to be 1.3KPa lower then 1.




The adjusters need a 7mm spanner

End results were 1 & 2 at -35KPa, cylinder 3 -32KPa and cylinder 4 -34KPa.
Thats as close as I can get them.

[video]https://youtu.be/G0NBupRoxiQ[/video]

Sweet music

 

I like the starter valve identification on the air box Oz. Good thinking.


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Thanks Terry, beats relying on memory.
Went for a 250km ride today after the sun finally came out, first time we've seen it in over a month.
Very happy, all is good, and after taking a long time and double checking my maths on the starter valves (I had it wrong all previous times) and trying to get them spot on, I can report the vibration I've had at 6500rpm and onwards is finally gone.
The difference was this time I spent a long time doing them, redoing them and double checking.
My guess is I spent around 1.5hrs playing with them.
A lot also comes down to previous experience on what works and what doesn't.
4 gauges would make life much easier, but as I stated, the set of dial gauges I have are just not accurate enough to do starter valves as I've tried many times without success.
Next project will be to dynotune my PCIII, as I have a generic Euro map for a 2001 with Staintune, no baffle in it now, and my friends mentioned that every time I passed the apex, they could see a twin swirl of black smoke coming from my pipe.
But to keep the wife from getting cranky, I might have to wait for a while.

 

A picture taken on that day.
Got to try out my new helmet as well (Shark Spartan Carbon), feels great, much lighter, much quieter and a lot less buffeting then my old Shark Vision R.
A win win.