.... as the old one was a little bit sharkfinned.
Perfect explanation... I'ma gonna steal that. Home he here at home, I hand grease with marine grade STP, or whoever is the cheapest on the shelf. The packing up on the swingarm and back wheel is going to be a chore, but it just wipes off with a paper towel... every 300mi. using Trip A. Trip B is for oil changes every 3k; and in the record book, it averages out to 2,700k. Beautiful hardware, wink-wink. Can't pull the chain back from the horizontal line of the axle. Can't push on the one rung, yank on the other and watch flipper wag those fins. Teeth looks perfect to me w/22k.
... the bike idles way smoother and... the left most pilot screw was all the way screwed in while the others were about 90⁰ out...
Ha. Recently booted off some site when I mentioned I'd be tuning the carb dis way, an dissed the crap out of the gurus giving me the WOT4, when all this chit hit the fan, it was my way or the highway with these forums. Booted off 2 just weeks ago... for sport LOL
Anyway, back to either fun... why I didn't think about this long ago was me with an AFR meter, some meguyveering over to a hobby shop and came up with an 'on the fly' [syncing], was hand adjust the low screws. Say cylinders 3-4 are for vapor emissions and that tank being a closed loop. Those are open for the vac pump in and the vapor out of the charcoal canister to cyl.4. And this is where I thought of more sync smoothing.
Then I saw how the throttle body is made with the stepper motor in the middle. Two cast bodies and machined for throttle plates on a single shaft. I am going to close the lows so no screw turn is going to add to the plates centering to each other first. Once that sync is out of the way, I select the lows as to how rich/lean I want to go. Full rich is all I can go. But this is for idle blending and more smoothing and that's as far as I can go sync wise... My way.
Find a 1/4 out on each body. Tap that hole wise, where does the thread start if we clock where the tap starts? So a 1/4 out is off by a thread start and you now dial in those air screws to each other = Smoothing even more. You're not there yet.
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Here is how I walk up to any bike and set the valves on any 4-storke:
1. I watch the intake valve go down, and when it comes up, I have to watch for these timing marks somewhere at the end of the cams. Sit on the bike and left cylinder is #1 to time cams usually on assembly. These line up with the line-bore-caps. Once machined are those half caps, they may have codes who matches where, but do not mix up parts meaning on the shim work.
2. I now read the service sticker on the frame and look for the clearances for in and ex lash. The high/low in the book means to find the center number as your valve lash clearance. That is ideal performance. I on the other hand go after the loosest clearance by the book's breakout numbers.
a. Center is for best performance.
b. The tight gap is for fast in-out speed. At high rpm the speed event makes HP. It's not more air, it's how fast can you move the air in sooner? Porting the walls. Straighten out the port curve. Thus, today's head where you can look down at the intake valve with a straight port.
c. Wide book gap. This is for a touch more diminishing power before the ex valve opens, plus more cool time on the valve sitting there with the wide gap opening later.
3. The feeler gauge reading. This is the 'go-no go' system. Again, [fas] and the easy numbers; say book are the min/max gaps of 1-2-3. I have feeler 2 and that slides in and can feel the oil between them. Notice the range you can be in. Now you choose feeler blade 3 and it should not go in. That's the system. If nothing fits under 1, that's a tight gap. If 3 fits in between the cam and shim, that's book breakout.
a. I cannot stress how much stress is on that feeler bending is none. When she's dry and you have arm pump, you bring out the lube and in he goes kind of push of that feeler.
b. Squids force the 'no go' with their back LOL. Shittyits on youtube go watch.
c. As if a shark bite, ever so push the blade and it does not go in... Done.
Your blades should look straight as if new. That's go-no go.
Timing Marks:
There are 8 valves that are going to be measured once you find #1 TDC >>> watching the intake go down, then back up. Just look for the 'heel' of the cam [the fatter looking egg side], where the cam's 'toe' is up; you look for those on the other side of the 3-4 cylinders.
Then watch #4's intake go down and then back up, you'll see those horizontal timing marks [at the cam caps], where the timing marks now face each other. Now #4's in and ex valves are set and the other two on the 1-2 side are set.
Cams coming out are; find a V and a W and make it down the center. Home he here does not need some cap open lining up the walk up. I find top gear and jerk to the line's out at the caps [for #1], then pump the wheel to the lines facing each other [for #4], I then roll the one cam up on the chain, and set on the head somewhere. More time saved is all.
I already know my pre-gaps of all 16, and when I know that row of 8 and who needs to gap where? I choose the shim for said gap. The cam is rolled back and the marks have yet to jump off link. The cam horizontal lines up... go-no go again and again if the blade BENDS. Torque to spec, one cam side done. Repeat the other side.
An aftermarket shim kit is my wallet saver. Guessing same jobber the factories uses?