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Recent content by ChickenStorm

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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    I just need to order two 2.50mm shims and switch around the ones I have, and then we're golden :cool:
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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    Good thing I checked, the shims did vary on the other side quite a bit :lemo:
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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    PROGRESS! I managed to fish the Shimmy Neutron up on outta there and it said 2.55 on the back of it, I measured it with my calipers (0.02mm tolerance) and got the same measurement as the same side intake shim. Now here's the conundrum. Will a 2.50 shim be too thin, as the tolerance is...
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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    Thankfully I measured the clearances of all of them before removal, all were under 0.05mm which was my smallest feeler gauge. But you're right finding that shim is top priority, I just hope it doesn't come to splitting the cases :fatigue:
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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    The worst has come to pass, the shim wasn't in the oil pan. Now what? Could it still be behind the large screen visible when looking into the engine from below or is there somewhere else I could look for it? I'm not very familiar with the internals of this engine so I didn't know what to...
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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    IF someone were to drop a shim down the timing chain into the engine where would one start to look for it? Should I check the oil pan or just start crying right away? :-&
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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    Awesome info guys thanks! I'll try the zip-tie trick in a moment so I can order some shims for the end of the week hopefully. Last night in bed I was thinking about the backfiring issue I'm having and came to the conclusion that my slide needle is propably now set way too lean since I adjusted...
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    Valve shimming and tuning (GS450E)

    Hello! My bike has long suffered from a sputter out of the carburetor when coming down from revs, and after some rejetting I decided to look into the valve clearances. Turns out the valves are all a little tight. I couldn't get my 0.05mm feeler gauge under any of them but the shims are able to...
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    Hot R/R along with complete power loss (GS450E -82)

    My thought was to make a separate switch in place of the light switch for the same disconnecting function so that if my battery needs a little extra juice I could swich to three phase mode until it's topped up :cool-new:. The voltmeter in the gauge measures the potential from it's 12V supply so...
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    Hot R/R along with complete power loss (GS450E -82)

    That's a good question :worked_till_5am:, I was thinking of it more as a way to see if the battery needed some extra oomph :rolleyes:
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    Hot R/R along with complete power loss (GS450E -82)

    I might rewire that to make a sort of quickcharge switch or something with a hold down button if the battery seems empty, since the chinese gauge I'm using has a volt meter built in :-\\\
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    Hot R/R along with complete power loss (GS450E -82)

    Oh wait I'll be damned there actually is a wire going from the stator to the headlight switch! :highly_amused:
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    Hot R/R along with complete power loss (GS450E -82)

    Awesome! My bike funnily enough has a light switch but there doesn't seem to be any charging cutoff situation with it as far as I can tell. I'll try just popping one of the three stator wires out of the connector and test it out. Are you sure there won't be any issues with leaving it...
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    Hot R/R along with complete power loss (GS450E -82)

    I'm having a really hard time finding these series type regulators that don't have at least half their price in shipping costs here in northern europe. Even without the price of shipping I can say they aren't cheap around here :cower:. Looking for alternatives seems like a fools errand but I've...
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    Hot R/R along with complete power loss (GS450E -82)

    That gives me an idea, would there be a way of somehow disabling the third coil and only running on two phase? My current draw is so low that maybe it could work on only two phases? Is this a suitable sollution or am I just completely out of my mind? I have a two phase rectifier on hand so that...
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