Powervalve issue?

[stainlesscycle]

just the coolant. lay bike on side like clutch install.

[gasgasman]

Originally Posted by rgranger

lay the bike over on the left side?

Yes Rob, assume your usual riding position. Ouch...

Sorry, just had to.

[Zhack]

Careful the bike is not resting on the shifter when you take the side cover off. The side cover prevents intrusion of the shift shaft and if there is pressur on it when the cover is removed, the shaft will be displaced inwards and bugger up the scorpion plates and shaft retaining spring.....ask me how I know

[stainlesscycle]

hah, so i was right! i thought it pushed the shift shaft over.

[motogroove]

Originally Posted by Zhack

Careful the bike is not resting on the shifter when you take the side cover off. The side cover prevents intrusion of the shift shaft and if there is pressur on it when the cover is removed, the shaft will be displaced inwards and bugger up the scorpion plates and shaft retaining spring.....ask me how I know

Jeez, I just get done making sure my balls aren't displaced, and now my shaft might not be properly retained!?!?!

Seems like it's clicking around OK...

I will not obsess.
<100 times on the blackboard>

The perfect is the enemy of the good.
-Voltaire

[rgranger]

Yeah, I know you care... when you going out again. I did a short ride at skull creek last weekend with Al. the miners have gobbled up more of the north west. I am looking forward to getting back to some forest rides. How are the rest of the guys? Jeff/Robbie/Johnny? Are they back to riding?
I may just get all the fluid drained tonight and do the work on the stand.
Thanks for the tip on the shifter! Good to know for the rekluse tunings!

Originally Posted by gasgasman

Yes Rob, assume your usual riding position. Ouch...

Sorry, just had to.

[motogroove]

Thinking about how this PV governor works, I imagined the balls durring a sustained WFO moment with the PV fully open.
Suddenly, there's new meaning to riding "balls out".

[GGEvo]

I made the powervalve adjustment yesterday. Photo below and as you can see there was a heap of free play. I now have slight tension against the stop bolt and I expect this will transform my bike (in addition to the high comp head I installed). Testing tomorrow so will report back findings.

Powervalve.jpg

[Jakobi]

Originally Posted by GGEvo

I made the powervalve adjustment yesterday. Photo below and as you can see there was a heap of free play. I now have slight tension against the stop bolt and I expect this will transform my bike (in addition to the high comp head I installed). Testing tomorrow so will report back findings.

Holy slops!! So you're still getting that bike back together? Farrrk mate she's been down for a while.. You'll have forgotten the feeling and be overwhelmed by the improvement.. Better get an NEDW/NEDJ needle to throw in there with it too. You'll be as happy as a pig in mud.

[gasgasec200]

Originally Posted by motogroove

I'll admit that when I read Zhack's post the first time I was thinking "oh no, dude, don't bend it!"

Then, yesterday I removed mine and straightened it out maybe one or two degrees*. While I was initially fooled that I was tight against the stop, the authoritative sound I heard was the rod hitting the front of the case hole. I'm really still not quite sure how I was fooled on such a simple inspection - could'a sworn I saw it touching the bolt.

Before I discovered that, I was trying to get scientific about measuring the "very slight" preload at the stop, looking for 80% swizzlestick deformation. Shocked to only achieve 22.373% swizzlestick deformation, I then discovered I was not getting full closure (story of my life, but let's no go there).

This is not a factory procedure because Spanish swizzlesticks are different.

All joking aside, it was easy enough to pull off the rod and straighten it a hair. Heat the nylock nut on the PV actuator plate (I used a lighter) to ease the nut off without snapping the post off.

*Thanks to Zhack for his angle on the thread.

Hey guys my english is not very good so I dont understand everything.

But I need help, I have a boring sound when I gas the bike up, you know sounds like a bolt is not tighten...
And someone said check the valves and now I read this..

Ehm, your pictures, that springthing is touching the bolt, IS IT SUPPOSED TO TOUCH the bolt or not?
And if it does I guess I have a freeplay downthere, maybe thats why it sounds lame ?

thanks guys .

btw, do I need to put shims down there or just adjust that bolt u guys showed downthere?

edit: his pics is on side 6, in the start..