Valve noise after adjustment?

[Ozmiander]

This thread took a lot of weight of my chest. I just adjusted my '83's valves and i couldn't even get a feeler blade in the gap before hand. The sewing machine noise that resulted was a little frightening :P


RPMs drop a LOT faster when i let go of the throttle now though!

[basic]

If you need any reassurance, I just did the valves on my 750 on Saturday, other than the pain of a totalled top end gasket and cleaning away some serious quantities of ancient gasket sealant silicon type nonsense, and had the exact same thing. After doing them, the bike fired up instantly, ran brilliantly, but sounded really noisy from the top end. Same thing, had to take it off of choke almost instantly.
I worried all Saturday night about the top end noise, so I did the valves again on Sunday, convinced I'd done something horribly wrong, I was panic stricken.
Valves were spot on, put everything back together again, and took the bike for a ride.
It's such a massive improvement on the gs I would not believe it, no matter how many folk told me.

Anyway, moral of the story, my valve clearances were all tight on the intake. Once I'd done them properly, I could hear the top end working as it is supposed to. I'd only ever heard the bike with a tight top end before.

Big thanks go out to BikeCliff and Mister Basic for the 16 valve clearance guide on BikeCliffs site.

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(next thing, you lot will have me taking the carbs apart, now that for me is the stuff of horror movies, all those tiny little bits)

Thank you very much for the thanks. Just trying to give back to the forum that has helped me tremendously. After my valve adjustment mine is noisy as well, but runs quite well despite out of tune/sync carbs and leaking intake boots. So well the clutch slips when cold and in the powerband....i believe the clutch cable is a bit too tight.