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about to install verslavy - quick question
06/06/13 at 04:34:56

on my verslavy tensioner there is a folded zip tie that essentially holds the plunger in place. When you take it out you can move the plunger in or out more. What position should the plunger be in? All the way in?
bike is at 4000miles.
Was going to use the outer hole as well - is this correct?
This is what it looks like now:

plunger is just a notch or two from all the way in.
pop it into the bike as it is?
or do you have to adjust it in situ?
sorry these are probably all dumb questions but the verslavy isn't in the haynes Wink

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Re: about to install verslavy - quick question
Reply #1 - 06/06/13 at 05:02:13

Leave the plastic zip tie in place until the tensior is bolted into the bike.

Then when it is all bolted in place....take out the tie. The tensior will self adjust into place....you don't need to do anything.

If you chain has streteched enough to allow you to use the outer hole without bottoming the tensioner all the way in.....then use the outer hole.

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Re: about to install verslavy - quick question
Reply #2 - 06/06/13 at 05:02:47

IIRC...

You pop the Verslavy in as yoy see it, then you fit the chain slide (whatever you call that big curvy thing the cam shain slides onto) to the inner hole, and cut the zip tie to free the verslavy and allow it to do its job.

Only once the plunger is all the way out, and it is held in place by the pin which has to extend all the way and rests at the end of the slot... should you compress the whole assembly, ziplock it shut, readjust the chain slide to the outer hole, and cut the zip tie again.

Izzat OK ? Wink

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #3 - 06/06/13 at 05:03:32 Which hole will be determined by the cam chain.
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strang Senior Member Offline Posts: 387 london Gender:	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #4 - 06/06/13 at 05:38:05 thanks this is really helpful - i didn't really understand the tensioner mechanism but now i do. What's the ballpark mileage to go the to second hole?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #5 - 06/06/13 at 05:55:23 Depends on the ballpark average length of ride. Id say around 15,000 would be about right,
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28771 L.A. California Gender:	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #6 - 06/06/13 at 07:34:06 I got nothin' to add
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cigarandcoffeeman Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 81	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #7 - 06/06/13 at 11:19:42 i Don't know, my bikes on the drive in shame as it needs a tensioner, my legs are getting rather well used though since its a 3 mile walk to work and back! the savage may be up for sale soon, as you just cant get it here in the uk, looking at a yamaha virago now......
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Re: about to install verslavy - quick question
Reply #8 - 06/06/13 at 12:22:03

cigarandcoffeeman wrote on 06/06/13 at 11:19:42:

i Don't know, my bikes on the drive in shame as it needs a tensioner, my legs are getting rather well used though since its a 3 mile walk to work and back! the savage may be up for sale soon, as you just cant get it here in the uk, looking at a yamaha virago now...... Sad

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #9 - 06/06/13 at 13:28:49 What can you not get in the UK?
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cigarandcoffeeman Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 81	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #10 - 06/07/13 at 06:19:44 sorry verslagen what do you mean jun2? and you cant get anything, only consumables- filters, gaskets, cam chain, oil seal and one or too other little things but thats it, no tensioners or engine parts, no drive pullys, belts, exhausts, you can only get stuff like that if someone is breaking a bike......
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28771 L.A. California Gender:	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #11 - 06/07/13 at 07:34:56 waiting on your reply.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #12 - 06/07/13 at 07:38:06 Well,, what is it you NEED? One day, youll need a cam chain,,
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mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: about to install verslavy - quick question Reply #13 - 06/08/13 at 13:49:01 Cam chains are dime a dozen here in Italy... What's with cigarandcoffee??
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Re: about to install verslavy - quick question
Reply #14 - 06/09/13 at 05:38:28

Na its more if something goes wrong with the bike, its good to know that you can get parts off the shelf, especially if its your only machine, say i blow a hole in the piston, i have to wait for parts to arrive from america etc, were as if it was a yamaha virago one telephone call and id have parts the next day.

But i do love these bikes, i mean i have a tattoo of my old girl.......

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