valve adjustment procedure

[Sarah Barwig]

>Spoilers ahead. Reader beware... > >At 12:56 PM 6/7/00 -0400, you wrote: >>I did leave entertained. > >I was just about howling at the demand the bad guys made of the biotech >guy at the end. My friends had to tell me to shush. > >> I just figure they could try a little harder to trick me into thinking >> these guys are skilled enough to ride that type of bike in the sand, > >We were all commenting that they'd never get us to do even the feasible >stunts without helmets on. BTW, you ever tried to pick up a Speed Triple >with one hand? Shooee. I had one up on a sidestand for chain lubing a >couple of weekends ago and that pig is heavy! Did they have gnomes >underneath pushing it up for our hero? > >Someone else wrote: > >>As for the scene in the cave after explosion, I agree, where in the world >>did he come up with the masks and how would he have know who he would end >>up dragging in there. > >I said that too, and my friends pointed out that in the initial briefing >with Hopkins they knew who the henchman was. So it was remotely plausible. >Why would Cruise have a mask of himself, I wondered. I was so put off by >the major plot device being that some girl was going to screw the bad guy >because she had in the past, that I didn't notice much of the rest of the >information he got during that scene.

---o&>o--- Sarah Barwig sarah@...

[spye@hvgb.net]

Verle and Raamses, Wow! You guys are freaking me out with your posts on valve adjustment! Change the shims without removing the cam?? Hell, not only did I have to pull the cam, I couldn't get the shims out without pulling the entire bucket/shim assembly out of the head! Please don't tell me I did something fatally wrong, at the time it seemed like the only way to get the shim out of the bucket. Is this a common complaint or would you think I may have had something else wrong? Also, what's up with not removing the cam chain tensioner? I thought it had to be removed(after pulling the main bolt,washer and spring) in order to 'reset' the ratchet to maintain proper chain tension upon reassembly. Are you guys skipping this step because you don't take the cams out and therefore don't release tension from the chain, or am missing something? I have to "go back in" next week once my dealer ships in the proper shims so any pointers appreciated. Steve Pye A7