14,000.00 mile valve check

[Tom Zangla]

The last time I checked and adjusted the valves on my A 19 (2005) KLR 650 was at 4,000 thousand miles. Someone mentioned that I should check the valves again at 14,000 thousand and that is what I did today. It was a nice sunny day here in SW Pennsylvania and no rain in sight. Since I have to work on my A 19 outside I figured it was time to Git-R-Done. I got the Valve CD out and while I was watching it I wrote down step by step what I had to do. The last time I did this at 4,000 miles I set the valves to their most wide open position that was allowed which is .008 for the intake and .010 for the exhaust. Now the A 19 has 10,000 thousand MORE miles on it since I did that adjustment and I was really surprised that nothing has changed. Yes both intake valves still has .008 clearance and both exhaust valves of .010 clearance. Since I had a lot off the bike I figured I would put a new clutch cable on before the stock one broke. I had bought a spare clutch cable from Fred http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com last year. Then I looked at the air filter and boy was that dirty. That got changed also. The only thing that went wrong today was when I tried pulling off the connection at the temperature sending unit. The metal tab pulled off. I managed to solder a wire on to what was left on the sending unit and spliced it to the other wire. Now I am "HAPPY" that I still got "HAPPY" valves. Tom SW Pennsylvania