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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #15 - 04/04/15 at 16:37:14 wait, no valve adjustment? I thought only hurleys and V stars had hydraulic valve lash adjusters
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #16 - 04/04/15 at 16:45:10 Yeah, gotta adjust them, but not as often. Check out the design..
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #17 - 04/04/15 at 17:00:43 kinda hard to do google gives me nothing shim under bucket or shim over bucket? shim over is easier to adjust, shim under holds adjustment fairly well, but the do have to be adjusted, eventually, and it's a PITA when you have to actually adjust them
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #18 - 04/04/15 at 17:58:32 PITA, ill give you that one. I think it's just another learning curve. Once done a few times, it's cake.
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #19 - 04/04/15 at 19:49:50 pulling the cam is cake? must be a different design from the last shim under sportbike I worked on lol otoh, at least it gets all the stuff in your way, out of your way
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #20 - 04/04/15 at 20:20:40 I don't remember pulling the cam. Been years,, memory
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #21 - 04/04/15 at 20:31:33 musta been shim over bucket then, there's a tool to depress the bucket and you change the shim not as long lasting an adjustment as shim under bucket, but fairly easy, I learned to do it on an old GS850 (2 valve per cylinder model, 1982 IIRC)
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Reply #22 - 04/05/15 at 00:54:10

Bucket and shim is why I no longer own a Kawasaki. I like Savage valve adjusters, set them once after break in and forget about them. In 12 years of beating the tar out of my 1998 model Savage, it NEVER went out of spec, even with the engine so hot it was glowing... wide open throttle from Long Beach MS to Destin FL, in the middle of summer... pipe turned black. Cool

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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Savage is back in Australia Reply #23 - 04/05/15 at 08:34:14 Yeah I like the '34 Chevy style valve adjusters on the S40, too, when I can reach them Suzuki made them very hard to get at with a feeler though, with those tiny, badly shaped access panels My Ninja 500 had the exact same type of adjusters, more easily accessed (once you got all the fool bodywork off)
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