Timing Mark Help

Duck0fDeath said:

shadetree said:

speaking of you tinkering with the rockers..i just gotta ask !..lol, any slight chance you put the rockers back in backwards ???..as in..intake on exhaust side, and exhaust on intake back on the shafts ??..lol.

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Is that even possible without them being upside down. I vaguely remember thinking they only worked one way. I hope to have time to pull the rocker cover tonight.

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if you pulled them off the rocker shaft ?, and slid them on the wrong shaft ?, then yes..its posb, you would have the top of the rocker off a tad, as well as the cam faces not riding on cam lobes on center, so yes, its posb !. just don't know how it would run though ?..or at all ?!..lol.

Apparently, I didn't have the valve adjustment procedure down as well as I thought! Before I pulled the cover off I thought I'd check and retry the adjustment again. I want to ride, not work!
Anyhow, I must have finally figured it out because it sounds great! Thanks, Shadetree ( YOU WERE RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING!) and TRX2FiveO for the technique.

Duck0fDeath said:

Valves are adjusted right.

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This experience reminds me of what a wise man once told me. "It's often not what you don't know that'll get you. It's what you think you know that just ain't so."

Duck0fDeath said:

Apparently, I didn't have the valve adjustment procedure down as well as I thought! Before I pulled the cover off I thought I'd check and retry the adjustment again. I want to ride, not work!
Anyhow, I must have finally figured it out because it sounds great! Thanks, Shadetree ( YOU WERE RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING!) and TRX2FiveO for the technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Qi1QGy8YQ

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sounds MUCH better now !!..well done bro !. yeah..many moons ago, I was in this very spot your were ? trying to figure out why the ticking was there ?, over and over i'd re-do the valves, until finally I found that '' sweet '' spot ?..then bam !..she ran like a brand new motor. in case you did not know ?, that was on my very first trx350D foreman 4x4...THAT'S IN MY AVATAR !, THAT I RESTORED OVER 10 YEARS AGO !!!..LOL. YEP...BEEN THERE..DONE THAT !..thats why I knew the valves wasn't getting set right ??!..lol. anywayyyyyyyy..glad ya got it fixed !!!! :wink

Ive found with most Hondas, unless you've got a 90* set of feeler gauges its tough to get the valve adjustments right.

the way the rockers sit in the head its hard to get your feeler gauge perfectly straight with the stem. then you end up with this issue. always thinking you've got them set right when you've actually got them too loose.

they end up coming out too loose. takes some trail and error with a set of 45* feeler gauges as well. 90* set of feeler gauges make quick work for them.

Manny said:

Ive found with most Hondas, unless you've got a 90* set of feeler gauges its tough to get the valve adjustments right.

the way the rockers sit in the head its hard to get your feeler gauge perfectly straight with the stem. then you end up with this issue. always thinking you've got them set right when you've actually got them too loose.

they end up coming out too loose. takes some trail and error with a set of 45* feeler gauges as well. 90* set of feeler gauges make quick work for them.

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you do have a solid point !. but what if you don't use feeler gauges ?..lol.

I have went without them before, but if at all possible for a guy who doesn't do it every day I would not recommend it.

Manny said:

I have went without them before, but if at all possible for a guy who doesn't do it every day I would not recommend it.

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true ^^^^. unless you have a few under your belt ?, its best to use them.