Slack Adjuster

If you ever see one of these adjuster for sale it would be a good idea to buy it.

These are self adjusting and that means low maintainence.

roy-b-boy-b wrote:

If you ever see one of these adjuster for sale it would be a good idea to buy it.

These are self adjusting and that means low maintainence.

i went the ape way on that part and plan on adj
myself at oil changes as needed......just my .02

I don't understand why the young guys here will not listen to the old timers who know these these bikes very very well. It's not the guys who know these bike that ask all the questions.

hoghaterkaw wrote:

I don't understand why the young guys here will not listen to the old timers who know these these bikes very very well. It's not the guys who know these bike that ask all the questions.

Re:Manual cam chain adjuster 2 Years, 1 Month ago
From 79 on, the tensioners were self adjusting on 650's and 1000's.

The earliest self adjusting types are very easily modified to prevent them from backing off which was the main problem with them.

Very early types had the plunger rod as one piece with a one way ball retainer and spring setup. That was slightly improved with the factory cutting a wedge shape off the plunger rod and adding the cut off section as a separate piece. It worked like a wedge to help keep the plunger rod from backing off when the one way ball retainer failed in it's duties.....a so-so fix at best..

Next came the side load dual plunger setup on the Hyvo chain models. They were better but still not a 100% reliable configuration. Chains were often over tensioned from removing the valve cover for service but failing to remove the side plunger cap on the tensioner before reinstalling the valve cover.

Simple fix for any of those tensioners is to buy the manual replacement units BUT any of them can be modified by a handy DIY mechanic to work properly.


tell me this guy doesnt know what hes talking about.......

www.kzzone.com/sprockets.html

My boss has been looking for a slack adjuster ever since he met me.:laugh:

650ed wrote:

My boss has been looking for a slack adjuster ever since he met me.:laugh:

:laugh: :laugh:

My boss has been looking for a slack adjuster ever since he met me.

Well, did he succeed or is he still looking?
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So sorry, me couldn't resist....

OMR

Cut me some slack!:woohoo: Roy

All in all this pictured adjuster is a good one afer you figure how to get is back into the housing. I use to use a guitar string to hold the assembly compressed and insert the plunger in the housing the pull the guitar string out. Now i just use a very sharply pointed prick punch to hold it. Roy