Re: [ST] 10K (km) service

[Eric Sheley <Eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:34 AM 2/20/01 -0800, Blake Sobiloff wrote:
>Eric Sheley was keeping a list of the required valve adjustments that 
>listers were sending him. I took a quick look at the web site and didn't 
>see it posted there... maybe Eric will get a chance to summarize.
>IIRC, however, most of the reports from folks doing the inspection early 
>indicated that adjustments usually weren't required.

One of the casualties of the computer crash I am afraid....

I have a few left, but here is an on the fly summary.

Old valve schedule was initial at 6k miles and then every 12k thereafter. 
Triumph then changed it's recommendations based on what it had been seeing 
internally and from the field. The new schedule was set to 12,000 miles and 
the every 12k afterward.

Some listers still were uneasy with this and had theirs checked between 6k 
and 10k miles. I don't think anyone in the group found that no changes were 
required (or in other words that everyone had some adjustment necessary). 
Of those, I believe there was 1 or 2 cases or specs way out - all others 
required very minor adjustments. There was a thread that went on around 
that time that said that if they were out at 6k they would be considerably 
out by the 12k service. I pointed out that there was no way of telling when 
the change took place to bring them out of spec. For instance if the 
majority of the change occurred say within the first 1,000 miles, yes there 
would be a service required at 6k miles, but there may have been little 
difference if it had been left to 12k miles.....

It is my personal opinion that dealers performing the service at 6k miles 
for reasons others than they hear a problem, are simply extracting extra 
money from the customer.

- - Eric



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