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Shim kits for valves?
- Thread starter DarinMac
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They're typically ordered individually from places like Z1 Enterprises. Sometimes you can shuffle them around to get them in spec. To avoid damaging the cam lobe while you remove a shim and rotate the cam, a quarter works nicely as a temporary spacer.
bren
Forum Apprentice
I think he is still around, but not active here much, but user Steve has a spreadsheet that helps you figure out what shims you need, based on what's in there now.
Send him an e-mail at woodin dot s at gmail dot com, be sure to mention valve adjust spreadsheet in the subject.
Mary Hinge
Forum Apprentice
28 miles for bike ?….or just what you’ve put on?
wait till you see what shims…if any…you need. As was mentioned, you can often just move them around and only need
to acquire a few others.
Be careful of valve checking…..have you seen this link?
https://gsarchive.bwringer.com/bikecliff/images/gs850valve_adjust.pdf
Rijko
Forum Sage
I've seen that advice multiple times and keep wondering why this spreadsheet is not on the GSR archive.
Rijko
Forum Sage
excellent, thanks Rich :encouragement::encouragement:
Z1 seems to be out of 29.5mm shims. eBay sellers want almost $10 each these days.
I think if the shim club started up again, whoever drives it should charge $5/each, and charge a $5 core charge. That would make it worthwhile for all the effort.
Last time I checked with Steve, he was maintaining a list of users, so he could send out updates if/when they happened.
There have been no updates refinements for quite a while that I know of.
I discussed this with my machinist and the cheapest surface grinder we could find was $3,000
Plus, Ray way charging nothing for labor
It would cost more than $10.00 to set up a shim for grinding, much less the grinding time
