Important for all 99-00cbr600f4 newbees
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Important for all 99-00cbr600f4 newbees
i just want everyone to know , i have 32000 miles on my bike and finally did a valve adj
i kept procrastinating on doing it cuz it it was riding good . dont do what i did .
do it at the correct intervals , i had to change my complete head cuz the #1 intake
journal got scored up , read all my threads and youll see, not fun , so if there is one
thing i would highly recommend is to do the valve adj. #1 i just wanted to share with
everyone maybe this will save a headache for someone else. #2 get the clymer book
this is very useful to changing oil to engine teardown. this will help all newbee's with step
by step
JUST THOUGHT ID GIVE YOU SOME WORDS FROM THE WISE
i kept procrastinating on doing it cuz it it was riding good . dont do what i did .
do it at the correct intervals , i had to change my complete head cuz the #1 intake
journal got scored up , read all my threads and youll see, not fun , so if there is one
thing i would highly recommend is to do the valve adj. #1 i just wanted to share with
everyone maybe this will save a headache for someone else. #2 get the clymer book
this is very useful to changing oil to engine teardown. this will help all newbee's with step
by step
JUST THOUGHT ID GIVE YOU SOME WORDS FROM THE WISE
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#5
16k according to manual though may not be good enough. I've read all over about how these bikes rarely have valve issues but my f4i sure does. my bro has owned since it had 2k miles and at 8k it started acting up. I got it from him at 16 and all valves were out of spec and 4 were so tight I had to adjust them twice just to get a reading for calculation purposes. I've got 24k on it now and just did the valves again this weekend. Guess what, they were too tight again. This head is a POS. either the valve seats are to soft and the valves are sinking into the head or the valves themselves are mushrooming. Eitherway I'm gonna have to find another or have this one rebuilt before to much longer.
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hey did you do anything as far as jetting or slip-on
ive read sites b4 that they said they chkd at 16000 miles and valves were good
and then at 32000 and they were just alittle out
thats y i waited everything sounded good and fine and then all of a sudden started acting
up about 30000 miles so i figure i would chk them
i have a k&n filter and yoshi slipon exh
the only thing it does every year i have to put new plugs in becuz it floods out when it
gets cold in fall and spring i chg plugs and it fires right up
so today i put oem exhaust on and am going to keep it that way and see what happens
come fall
ive read sites b4 that they said they chkd at 16000 miles and valves were good
and then at 32000 and they were just alittle out
thats y i waited everything sounded good and fine and then all of a sudden started acting
up about 30000 miles so i figure i would chk them
i have a k&n filter and yoshi slipon exh
the only thing it does every year i have to put new plugs in becuz it floods out when it
gets cold in fall and spring i chg plugs and it fires right up
so today i put oem exhaust on and am going to keep it that way and see what happens
come fall
#7
16k according to manual though may not be good enough. I've read all over about how these bikes rarely have valve issues but my f4i sure does. my bro has owned since it had 2k miles and at 8k it started acting up. I got it from him at 16 and all valves were out of spec and 4 were so tight I had to adjust them twice just to get a reading for calculation purposes. I've got 24k on it now and just did the valves again this weekend. Guess what, they were too tight again. This head is a POS. either the valve seats are to soft and the valves are sinking into the head or the valves themselves are mushrooming. Eitherway I'm gonna have to find another or have this one rebuilt before to much longer.
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Newbe question
I know this is an old thread but I figured I'd give it a shot.
My bike has gone through several owners from what I can tell. I bought it from my brother who bought it from a guy, don't know if he was the original owner or not. But I have somewhere around 33k right now and have no clue about valve maintenance in the first place. I know my brother had the carb worked on before I bought it, is there a way I can check the valves you guys are talking about to see how they are?
Thanks for the warning and any help!
99 cbr f4
My bike has gone through several owners from what I can tell. I bought it from my brother who bought it from a guy, don't know if he was the original owner or not. But I have somewhere around 33k right now and have no clue about valve maintenance in the first place. I know my brother had the carb worked on before I bought it, is there a way I can check the valves you guys are talking about to see how they are?
Thanks for the warning and any help!
99 cbr f4
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I know this is an old thread but I figured I'd give it a shot.
My bike has gone through several owners from what I can tell. I bought it from my brother who bought it from a guy, don't know if he was the original owner or not. But I have somewhere around 33k right now and have no clue about valve maintenance in the first place. I know my brother had the carb worked on before I bought it, is there a way I can check the valves you guys are talking about to see how they are?
Thanks for the warning and any help!
99 cbr f4
My bike has gone through several owners from what I can tell. I bought it from my brother who bought it from a guy, don't know if he was the original owner or not. But I have somewhere around 33k right now and have no clue about valve maintenance in the first place. I know my brother had the carb worked on before I bought it, is there a way I can check the valves you guys are talking about to see how they are?
Thanks for the warning and any help!
99 cbr f4
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