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Hi Matey,

Do you know of anyone in our locale (Oxford/Swindon/Bath/Reading) that will
check the valve clearances & balance the injectors on the K for me, without
me having to pay main dealer prices ?

 

He has done lots of work on my Boxers in the past and has been first
class.

Boxerboy

 

A search at UKGSer.com gives:

"Andrew Sexton, oxford/warwikshire/gloucester border tel 01608 730111" and
google provides an address
www.ioxfordshire.co.uk/profile/301427/Banbury/Andrew-Sexton-BMW-Specialist/

This gives an image of an advert in a paper for an independent bloke in
Stonehouse:
www.ukgser.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=67880&stc=1&d=1182884055

 

Scraggy will be along soon to give the details of his tame mechanic
who apparently does a very good job on K series BMW's. The guy lives
somewhere near Scraggy in Shropshire but that isn't too far from
Oxfordshire if he does a good job.

 

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:22:56 -0700 (PDT), boxerboy

I'm really trying hard to resist that, you know.

 

Reading the blurb that accompanies that advert, it seems that the bloke
used to work for Rydales in Cardiff. They had a very good bike service
dept. up until Frank Shitner took them over and closed the bike franchise.
I use their other ex-mechanic, who set up his own independent workshop in
Cardiff.

 

Balance the injectors? Never heard of that before.

 

Throttle butterflies rather than injectors. Very similar process to
balancing a bank of carbs.
Pain in the arse on an M3/M5 too, as you've got to borrow a matching set of
vac guages.
JB

 

Sorry, wouldn't have a clue. I tend to do that kind of stuff myself.

It's easy enough to check the clearances, but a bit of a pain if you
need shims changing (rarely do.)

The throttle body balancing isn't so bad either- if you've got decent
gauges. I bought a set of Morgan carbtunes years ago which work fine.

If you're stuck let me know; but I'm pretty busy for the next 2-4 weeks.

 

You couldn't just leave it hanging, now could you...

 

Cool, no worries, ta all for the advice above.

I have no probs doing electrical stuff, and changing filters & oil 'n'
stuff, but when it comes to valve shims and balancing I'd rather leave it to
an expert.

Plus the haynes manual showed some pretty specific tools for valve/shim
work.

Again - ta foak's.

 

The tools are only needed if the valve shims need changing. Measuring
them doesn't need anything more than a set of feeler gauges.