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swest wrote: This has drifted from carbs to cams and valve clearances. Time to start another thread.
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Well SOMEONE wanted me to check the valve clearance and now I am so that pic is what I have right now. Manual says .015 gap but mine is way smaller or maybe non existent
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swest wrote: Yes and SOMEONE didn't want to do it. These were all suggestions of how to find the real problem and it seems obvious the carbs are not at fault.
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TexasKZ wrote: Looks like .008 mm is the very limit. The next thinner shim shoul give the .008 valve .013, which woul be ideal. Most guys shoot for wider half of the allowable range. In this case that would be .013 - .018.
maintenance.kz650.info/GeneralMaintSpecs.htm
The numbers I wrote are in inches
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blink543 wrote: Ok wtf I opened it up to find out the cam chain is skipping again I just fixed this a month ago with a newer tensioner it came out of alignment again
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swest wrote:
blink543 wrote: Ok wtf I opened it up to find out the cam chain is skipping again I just fixed this a month ago with a newer tensioner it came out of alignment again
So?
What do u mean so? It's not supposed to do that
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