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pete roper said:My advice to people is to get their shop to check them, (Or do it themselves!) at the first service at 800Km/500 Miles then again at 5,000 and then again at 10,000. My GUESS is that after this 10,000Km checks will be perfectly sufficient. I intend to keep checking mine more regularly so I can form some sort of idea of what is 'Normal'. if people are willing to trust my judgement on that it should be a good baseline.
Pete
pete roper said:My advice to people is to get their shop to check them, (Or do it themselves!) at the first service at 800Km/500 Miles then again at 5,000 and then again at 10,000. My GUESS is that after this 10,000Km checks will be perfectly sufficient. I intend to keep checking mine more regularly so I can form some sort of idea of what is 'Normal'. if people are willing to trust my judgement on that it should be a good baseline.
Pete
DanPez said:Should they be tighting up or loosing up with time?
john zibell said:Better to go loose. If they get tight it is an indication of valve seat erosion.DanPez said:Should they be tighting up or loosing up with time?
mojohand said:"A tappy tappet is a happy tappet," as they say
doug45 said:Pete.....thanks a lot for taking the time to post this.I'm at 1400mi and taking the 2010Stevio to a dealer I sort of trust for the first check.For the future this looks like a great resource.I was thinking a 4 valve head might be more complicated but it appears pretty straight forward
New Guzziast said:Finally gonna do my own valve job. Griso 8v - Intakes are on carb side (back) and both frwd are exhaust valves?
I cant find any diagrams of the engine that would say otherwise and I havnt taken the covers off yet so it may seem a silly question but want to be sure I am right before I open it up. The nearest Guzzi dealer is a long ways away and I have only done wheels, tires and fluids on my other bikes but the Guzzi looks to be nice and simple for valve check.
Thanks
pete roper said:AA motor uses six and eight rather than four and six. Follow the book.