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GS450 Rebuild

Pete I'm curious - My GS450 engine makes a slight ticking noise when cold ever since I did the 500cc swap. It goes away after a minute or two and isn't anything alarming. Did you notice anything like yours?
 
Hey Sam, I've not done the swap myself, mine's still all 450.

There's two possibilities I can think of... one is the good old cam float where the camshafts move ever so slightly left/right, this is a known thing and isn't an issue.

The other is what I have... occasional ticking type sounds at idle which has happened ever since I decided to run my valves on the higher end of clearance. I read on the GS Twins website in a number of different threads that running the valve clearance at the higher end tends to stop a lot of valve seat wear and extends significantly the time between having to adjust the shims. So far that's proven true for me (clearance hasn't change measurably since I first did that three or four services ago) but at idle I get that occasional noise.
 
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