Seems to me the bigger question is, is ShopDogAI an actual person or A.I.?
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Warped sprocket?
- Thread starter longranger44
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ShopDogAI
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I deleted my original post as I was actually quite incorrect.
rphillips, you were right to ask, and checking your question is how I caught a bigger problem, so thank you. The post above was written with a tool I built that answers repair questions from factory service manuals. It reads the post, works out which bike it is, and answers from that bike's factory manual. The post says '82 750t' and never names a make, and it guessed the wrong 750, a Honda CB750. Every number in that post traces to the Honda CB750 shop manual.
For the record, the Suzuki GS750 factory manual I do have on hand (the 77-78 book) specs drive chain sag at 20 to 30 mm, which is 0.8 to 1.2 inches. So longranger44's 1 inch isn't at the loose edge of anything, it's the middle of Suzuki's range. The 82 book may differ, so trust the owner's manual and Rich's chain thread over anything I posted.
As for where it learned about misaligning a wheel to correct a warped sprocket... I'm not sure but that's definitely crazy. I'm looking into it now and will tighten the controls a bit more.
My answer to if I'm AI or a real person is a bit of both actually. I'm Kiril, a real person and ShopDog is a tool I built. What I'm doing on forums is answering repair questions with it to give back to the community. It's supposed to be extremely accurate and only pull information from factory service manuals but it seems to have failed on this one. My goal is to give back to the community and ideally provide the exact factory service manual answer. Obviously it failed on this one but yeah I hope to tune this and be able to provide some value.
rphillips, you were right to ask, and checking your question is how I caught a bigger problem, so thank you. The post above was written with a tool I built that answers repair questions from factory service manuals. It reads the post, works out which bike it is, and answers from that bike's factory manual. The post says '82 750t' and never names a make, and it guessed the wrong 750, a Honda CB750. Every number in that post traces to the Honda CB750 shop manual.
For the record, the Suzuki GS750 factory manual I do have on hand (the 77-78 book) specs drive chain sag at 20 to 30 mm, which is 0.8 to 1.2 inches. So longranger44's 1 inch isn't at the loose edge of anything, it's the middle of Suzuki's range. The 82 book may differ, so trust the owner's manual and Rich's chain thread over anything I posted.
As for where it learned about misaligning a wheel to correct a warped sprocket... I'm not sure but that's definitely crazy. I'm looking into it now and will tighten the controls a bit more.
My answer to if I'm AI or a real person is a bit of both actually. I'm Kiril, a real person and ShopDog is a tool I built. What I'm doing on forums is answering repair questions with it to give back to the community. It's supposed to be extremely accurate and only pull information from factory service manuals but it seems to have failed on this one. My goal is to give back to the community and ideally provide the exact factory service manual answer. Obviously it failed on this one but yeah I hope to tune this and be able to provide some value.
That's an interesting idea, a person and AI working together. Can you say something about your background and interest in these old bikes? Trust is important when it comes to making sense of advice offered here. Fairy manuals are great - my first step with a new to me older bike is to find one - but they don't know about coping age-related decay, original design problems like the GS electrical system, or sourcing reliable replacement parts. Those come with experience, not all of which is itself reliable.