Valve Adjustments

[Reddog99]

Originally Posted by Bob Dog

Run it til it drops and DIY plug and play a salvage engine for less than the cost of a skilled factory valve adjustment?

You know where to find a good salvage engine for less than 282$CAD ???

Unfortunately the tech adjusting the Storm did not have the correct shim so he found the next size thicker and sanded it down by hand to achieve the correct clearance.

Good grief!! Sanded it down? What an idiot. Those parts are case hardened, which means that he could have sanded down into the soft metal beneath the hardened case. That one would wear extremely fast. This reminds me why I like to do my own work. At least I KNOW what I'm ignorant about.

[bikeshox]

Originally Posted by Reddog99

Good grief!! Sanded it down? What an idiot. Those parts are case hardened... That one would wear extremely fast. This reminds me why I like to do my own work. At least I KNOW what I'm ignorant about.

We had a good laugh at that one. That and that it was a Geo Storm.