Beware Elderly Corolla Drivers

Well, that sounds like a good idea. Don't forget your donor card!

----sharks

 

I read it as "Be where all garlic roo lad rivers!", and
I don't understand this shit at all!

-----sharks

 

I'm glad I never set mine or I'd be confused!

 

Unless some of your head bolts are also holding down the camshaft
retainers. As is the case with my bike. Still, the only time I've
checked the torque on the head bolts was when I put the cams back in.

Rusty

 

Rusty, interesting.....what breed of bike?

 

take it you like zx6's

I don't touch people's bikes, just enjoy riding past it to park mine ;-)

 

It does if one iota = one thou. Serious racing engine builders bolt
torque plates to the block deck surface before boring cylinders to
simulate the stress on the block as it would be with the head in place.
(think one inch thick steel plates with holes in them for the boring tools)

Some even bolt all ancillary equipment to the block, waterpumps,
bellhousing, crank caps, etc.

Although the distance from the cam to the follower in an OHC head is
small, it could be affected by movement in the head (particularly an
alloy head) given that stresses in the head will vary. Proximity to bolt
holes, thickness, water jacket location, etc...the cam caps are torqued,
the intake and exhaust are torqued...

Maybe I wouldn't go that far but I'd certainly check the clearances
after reassembly...

 

Course not, he's still a newbie!

Hammo

 

What?

So when do _you_ do it?

Hammo

 

Fuggin' newbie!

Hammo

 

Honda VF500F. The four centre head bolts also hold in the cam chain guide.

The useless things we learn.

 

Slightly different scenario.

Me in truck
Motorcyclist looks at sign on back of truck "if you can't see my mirrors I
can't see you"
Motorcyclist then proceeds to sit right in my blind spot.
Me several minutes later.... Is he still there? Dunno. Can't see him.
I proceed to move left slowly just in case he's still there.
Zip motorcyclist appears from blind spot yelling abuse at me.
**** it I shoulda squished the dumb bastard.

Chris

 

If the head's been off, yes, I retorque the next two rounds of valve clearance
setting. But that's mainly for the head gasket settling, and getting the
cylinder bolt torque (= stretch tension) right again means the whole rocker assy
moves towards the camshaft a couple of thou. Sufficient to throw off the valve
gap.

(Owner of the other brand of agricultural motorcycle)

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Come on Zeebee - give it up... the real reason they see is you your
topless on the guzzi

Chris: eye contact is good, but dont ride yourself into an accident
trying to establish it. When you have a larger capacity bike, then
passing ppl like that is over twice as quick and all that old bitty
would have got was a fright and a lesson in remembering to head check as
you zipped past her.

 

Hi chris, if you ride with the cars, your treated like one, only the
drivers forget to look for you. A driver is conditioned to look for a
large cross section of 4 wheeled metal, you are about 1/5 of that, so
they dont see you.

The safest place is to hang back, or get up the front of em all where
they will see you. Im an advocate of lane splitting to the front of the
lights... but make sure you have the mumbo to get out of the way of them
when your off the line. There is nothing more frustrating than a
dickhead on a 250 Rossi replica blade making his way up the front on La
trobe street melbourne... only to be blown off by the Underdog Leathers
battlewagon 3 times before the concept sunk in... and even then......
with all the best intentions... a 250 will not blow off a V6 kraut
mobile with a **** like me at the wheel.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 16 May 2004 10:53:45 +1000

Don't be silly. I war an openface - I *know* how much insects hurt at
60kmh....

What, and he slams straight into the parked car he almost didn't see?

Wouldn't that be embarassing!

Zebee

 

True true, but at least he would be doing it on a bike with horsepower

 

Is there _really_ "a couple of thou" in "head gasket settling"? I'm
surprised... 'course that doesn't make much difference to me, the
Monster doesn't have head gaskets... (and the cylinder base gaskets are
sheet aluminium, I'd bet theres less than a tenth of a thou "settling"
in them).

But I thought Hoggleys ran hydraulic lifters???

;-)

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