Valve Adjustment.
*** WARNING ***
The information present within these pages are for educational
purposes only. If you choose to follow these procedures and end
up damaging your BMW R1200GS, it is not my fault as it is your choice
that you follow the text describe here. Your actions are yours to
make and I, in no way shape or form, am responsible for your desire to
follow the pictures and text describe here in. The information is
presented as is and is not guaranteed or warrantied in any way.
Do this at your own risk.
*** WARNING ***
*** Note ***
It
is absolutely essential that a torque wrench be present for this
procedure. Trying to tighten anything on a R12GS without a
torque wrench is just asking for trouble. Go visit Sears if you
don't have a torque wrench. They'll be more than happy to lend
you one indefinitely for a moderate sum of money.
*** Note ***
OK. Legalies and danger warning aside. Welcome and I hope
you find this topic interesting. Thank god that the R12GS doesn't
use shims for valve adjustments. I know the high performance
Japanese bikes don't use valve springs any more because the springs
just can't seem to keep up with the super high revs. I'm
very happy that the R12GS is using dinosaur technology as it allows a
do it yourself person, like me, to be able to perform a mechanical
service on my bike.
You will want to get some parts before performing a valve
adjustment. Among all things, you will want a completely new
gasket set for the head covers. This includes the head cover
gasket and the spark plug hole gasket. You might also want to
acquire new spark plugs as needed. It took me approximately 3 to
3 1/2 hours to do everything including taking pictures for the
documentation. That's not too bad.
Page 1 - Taking things off and letting it all hang
out.
Page 2 -Tweaking the valves.
Written on: February 18, 2007
Last modified: February 18, 2007