Decided to adjust valves last night. It has been about 20 years since I've done an adjustment on a Hurricane, so I decided to make the job easier and picked up a set of Motion Pro tappet adjusters...didn't help, they are useless on the Hurricane as the tool is too short to turn the lock nuts.

Anyway, it was going well with standard hand tools and I had 11 or twelve valves done and was breaking loose the lock nut on one of the #2 cylinder exhaust valves and the whole freakin' rocker arm came out. So, I went inside, took a shower and said screw it until morning.

So today I get to pull the exhoust cam and see if I can get it back together or if I need to replace the holder spring

Has anyone else had this happen?

 

Can all of that be done with the engine still in the bike? Or do you pull it out to do all that?

 

It was all done with the engine in...pulled the exhaust cam got it all back together. seems to be ok now.