Tony D.
Just got it firing!
Hello all, or I should say help!!
I may need to remove the right cylinder head to extract a small piece of wooden dowel measuring 1" long x 5/16" diameter - a bit fatter than a pencil). I was too lazy and stupid to go in the house to fetch a straw to determine TDC for a valve adjustment and now I'm paying for it. I can get hold of it with sticky wax on the end of wire but can't get it back out thru the spark plug hole. I can't rotate the engine thru TDC and wouldn't want to chance starting it possibly getting a splinter in the valve seat holding the valve open just long enough to hit the piston.
Outside of injecting a few hundred termites in for a snack, burning it, or somehow dissolving it, (any ideas welcome) it looks like the head will be coming off.
Everything I see in the shop manuals show the engine removed from the bike when removing the head.
Would someone be kind enough to tell me if the head can be removed with the engine in the frame?
Thanks and please by gentle on me!
Tony
I may need to remove the right cylinder head to extract a small piece of wooden dowel measuring 1" long x 5/16" diameter - a bit fatter than a pencil). I was too lazy and stupid to go in the house to fetch a straw to determine TDC for a valve adjustment and now I'm paying for it. I can get hold of it with sticky wax on the end of wire but can't get it back out thru the spark plug hole. I can't rotate the engine thru TDC and wouldn't want to chance starting it possibly getting a splinter in the valve seat holding the valve open just long enough to hit the piston.
Outside of injecting a few hundred termites in for a snack, burning it, or somehow dissolving it, (any ideas welcome) it looks like the head will be coming off.
Everything I see in the shop manuals show the engine removed from the bike when removing the head.
Would someone be kind enough to tell me if the head can be removed with the engine in the frame?
Thanks and please by gentle on me!
Tony