• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

.002,,,,could it be?

Valve lash at .003 In and .005 Exh.

Well here I go. I set my bike up with .003 In and .005 EXH using a feeler gage. The as found clearance was .013 plus with 3700 miles on the engine. The engine runs fine and now has about 500 miles on this adjustment. Will let you guys know how it works out. The cam chain tensioner checked out fine and is a very simple device. Photo shows mine in the extended position.
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Here ia an alternate method to adjust the valves without the use of a feeler gage: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. However, this procedure was given to me by someone who uses it daily.
At TDC of course, loosen the adjuster lock nut so the adjuster screws can be turned with a very small screw driver. Without gage, tighten both adjusters of the same valve set using just light force from two fingers only on the small screw driver. Get all the slack out and no more. Back off adjuster screw 1/4 turn and hold while tightening the lock nut. Given that the pitch on the adjuster screws is .75 MM this method would give you .005" to .007" clearance.
 
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