So my bike needs its valves adjusted. I have the haynes manual and the honda manual and all the tools. However, I am new to repairing bikes, but am a pretty competent DIYer, in addition to that my local honda rip-off dealer wants 320-420 to do it. For those who have done this, how hard is it. Would you recommend the dealer or me? It seems easy enough (haynes gives it only 3 out of 5 wrenches), but like all things I think that about I am usually way wrong.

Thanks,
Dan

 

I'd do it myself if I had a friend who could show me first... then maybe videotape it


And give him a case of beer

 

If your just a DIY don't attempt this job, it's pretty time consuming and tricky,
You will need to remove the cams in order to get to the shims,
and be careful removing the cam carriers if you don't do it evenly and slowly you'll crack one & you cant replace these as they are matched to the cyl head,
That means new head.
Just out of interest how many miles on the bike??

 

Ok don't tell me then
ask for help and can't be bothered to answer the relative questions.

 

Iam totally the same way, I'de rather pay, never done the valves before or any valves [:@] and afraid I would totally f#ck somthing up .........93 f2

 

Sorry I signed up for email updates of my posts and didn't see it. My bike has 39k miles on it. I am 99% sure I am going to just take it to a pro (the only problem is I don't have the cash) and have a serious tune up done because while this is my 'learning' bike, I do want it running at its prime. Thanks for the advice.

 

Dan thanks for that
I didn't want to seem negative but I give a lot of info on here
The reason I asked for the milage was, I have a 1991 model with 37K mls on the clock and it is on the original shims
if it's not noisy from the top end I would leave them and save some money,
if it is noisy make sure it's not the CCT 1st

 

At cbrforums we demand that our fellow f2 owners pay attention to their posts!

[:@]

 

39 thou,[:@] where did you guys find your bikes ? Ibought mine (like an idiot) with 57 thou and some change, it runs great but kinda blown away with the low miles I see on the other f2 's I see here [>:]

 

damn mine only has 5k on it.

Oh wait, that's right... The Veypor says 5k and I put that on in March. I forgot the bike didn't even have gauges when I bought it.

Hell come to think of it I have no freaking clue how many miles are on this bike.