Soupah
Ex Member
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Okay, first off, I'd like to say thanks to you guys. Becasue of all the advice I read here, I felt confident enough yesterday to do the whole 600-mile cylinder head nut re-torquing process yesterday. Everything (almost) went great; no stripped or busted bolts, and I sealed the plug cap and got all the right bolts back in the right holes. I had only 2 problems:
1) Being fussy about getting the piston at TDCC, I stuck a screwdriver in the spark plug hole to see when the piston was at the top of the compression stroke. When the piston was coming up, the screwdriver jammed in the hole briefly (I think it was the angle between the piston and the plug hole). Did I just ruin my cylinder walls with that stupid screwdriver? It was jammed just for a second, and I wasn't cranking it hard clockwise, but...geez, I'm an idiot- why didn't I just use a pencil?
2) How much travel should be in the automatic decompression lever (not the cable, but the lever assembly that goes into the head and actuates the exhaust valve)? I ask because it seems to have much less travel than before I pulled the head. Is there anything in the head cover that you have to watch out for lever-wise before you put it back on? The lever barely moves, maybe 1 inch of travel...is that normal? The cable's also got a bit of slack. What could cause all this? If I want to check the lever out, can I pull it out with the head cover on, or do I have to yank the head off again to get at it?
Incidentally, the bike starts right up (even easier than before) and seems to run great- I put in a 152.5 jet. Still, now I'm paranoid that I've scored the cylinder AND messed up the decompression lever somehow.
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