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Re: Valves

At 02:01 PM 9/27/00 -0700, Blake Sobiloff wrote:
>There was a big brouhaha about valves a while back; check the archives.
>Eric Sheley was keeping a record of valve clearances for those who opted
>to check the valves at 6K, and for those who chose to wait until the
>official service interval of 12K. I can't recall any concrete evidence
>that would recommend checking the valves at 6K, but Eric can probably
>answer better than I (once he quits living the Playboy lifestyle :-).

Basically the numbers don't show any reason to get them checked at the 6k. 
While many of the bikes that had the valves checked at 6k required 
adjustment, the numbers for the most part were not bad. Unless you have 
some reason to be concerned (lots of noise etc) then just follow the 
recommended schedule

- - Eric


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