Last night I checked my valve adjustments (again) and I didn't need to change them.
I have just been using the mark to the right of "T" to find TDC. I do the valves for one side, and then wind it carefully around once to that mark again to do the other side. If I accidentally pass the mark, I go around again.
I read in the post about setting up a bike new to you (things to check) about feeling the top of the piston to determine which side is on TDC, or that I am generally at TDC. But when I stick a thing in (I think in the post I mentioned it referred to a knitting needle, but I used a thin flat screwdriver) there to touch the tops of pistons, really, they feel to be in about the same position on both sides. At the same height. Not like one is way down in the cyl and one is way up.
Is that the way it should be? That at TDC, both pistons are equally far "up"?
or if not, how much difference should there be?
Is it OK to just go by the mark by the T? or, why would it be important to check the top of the pistons by touching them to make sure they are "up" before doing valves on that side?
also, when you're winding the nut to the left with a wrench to turn the engine through, what is that pronounced "click" I hear just before the point where it wants to swing on through on it's own? It's like at the point just before I need to be careful to hold the wrench so it doesn't swing through and pass the mark by the "T".
thanks
I have just been using the mark to the right of "T" to find TDC. I do the valves for one side, and then wind it carefully around once to that mark again to do the other side. If I accidentally pass the mark, I go around again.
I read in the post about setting up a bike new to you (things to check) about feeling the top of the piston to determine which side is on TDC, or that I am generally at TDC. But when I stick a thing in (I think in the post I mentioned it referred to a knitting needle, but I used a thin flat screwdriver) there to touch the tops of pistons, really, they feel to be in about the same position on both sides. At the same height. Not like one is way down in the cyl and one is way up.
Is that the way it should be? That at TDC, both pistons are equally far "up"?
or if not, how much difference should there be?
Is it OK to just go by the mark by the T? or, why would it be important to check the top of the pistons by touching them to make sure they are "up" before doing valves on that side?
also, when you're winding the nut to the left with a wrench to turn the engine through, what is that pronounced "click" I hear just before the point where it wants to swing on through on it's own? It's like at the point just before I need to be careful to hold the wrench so it doesn't swing through and pass the mark by the "T".
thanks
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