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Valve Adjustments

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mike10 said:
There's no other adjustments other than shims right? I'm trying to work up the nerve to check the valves on my 2005 GS500. I bought it new and had the shop do it the first 2 times. It looks to me like the valve cover has never been off. It has a little more than 15,000 miles on. I have a clymer manual for it. Anything I need to watch out for? Thanks :)
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Hi,

This should just about cover it...

Valve Adjustment Video

It's a video about adjusting the valves in a GS500. The principle applies to all shim-under-bucket GS motors. Check out the valve adjustment guide on my website too.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
I'm back, so finally snail mail delivers the shims that GHOSTGS1 sent me, took about 15 days to get to me from Colorado to Ca. I start changin shims around and still gonna have to get a couple more from shim club, apparently my guestimate of .03mm, since my feeler gauge only goes down to .04mm was wrong. had to drop down a couple of sizes on two valves instead of 1 size. Hopefully this time snail mail will be like a rabbit instead. I was just about to order some shims from Z1 this afternoon.
 
Mr. BassCliff

Mr. BassCliff

Thank You, for the Valve adjustment info.
 
+1 on the zip-tie method of shim extraction. Last weekend I used a ten cent zip-tie tool after fumbling around with with $25 dedicated tool for about 2 hours. Mr. Matchless, you are a genius, the zip-tie method is so easy and foolproof a 5 year old could do it.

Also, I am definitely joining the Shim Club. I was in a hurry to get on the road, so went to the dealership and paid $12 per shim, what a rip. At least I'll be able to ride tomorrow.
 
DPage said:
... went to the dealership and paid $12 per shim, what a rip.
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Unfortunately, that is rather typical. I have seen $11-15 at dealers, and sometimes you are actually dipping into their stash of used shims and exchanging yours. :eek:

Z1 is far better at $5.28 and I have found a couple of the other suppliers that have them for three dollars and some change.

.
 
I preferr talk like "guestimate", "slappy" and my all time favorite, SWAG. :p
 
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