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Quote from: mattsz on March 08, 2019, 12:46:43 AM How much re-tightening torque are we talking about here?Quote from: Nurse Julie on March 08, 2019, 08:53:27 AMThere is no torque, its automatic spring tension that enables the process of adjusting the chain. You only undo the lock nut and adjuster bolt to allow free movement of the chain tensioner adjuster bar to allow the springs to push the chain tensioner adjuster bar to be pushed down further on to the horse shoe, which in turn, pushes the tensioner slipper on to the chain to take up the slack. It's an automatic tensioner. But for the process to work and remove any cam chain rattle from a slack chain, the chain must still be within service limit, the horse shoe pivot not seized and the spring not weak. As Bryan says, worry not now, sort it out at a later date if needed.Quote from: mattsz on March 08, 2019, 05:09:05 PMWe may be talking semantics here. Since there is a locking nut, I figured that the adjuster wasn't relying on torque alone to hold it in place, but the manual does say to re-tighten it, and to my mind that means some kind of torque - even if the intent is only to tighten it just until resistance is felt. The answer to "how tight should it be?" is a torque value, isn't it? The manual reveals nothing on this score...From Haynes - "Turn it again inwards, until slight resistance is felt, then re-tighten the locknut."
How much re-tightening torque are we talking about here?
There is no torque, its automatic spring tension that enables the process of adjusting the chain. You only undo the lock nut and adjuster bolt to allow free movement of the chain tensioner adjuster bar to allow the springs to push the chain tensioner adjuster bar to be pushed down further on to the horse shoe, which in turn, pushes the tensioner slipper on to the chain to take up the slack. It's an automatic tensioner. But for the process to work and remove any cam chain rattle from a slack chain, the chain must still be within service limit, the horse shoe pivot not seized and the spring not weak. As Bryan says, worry not now, sort it out at a later date if needed.
We may be talking semantics here. Since there is a locking nut, I figured that the adjuster wasn't relying on torque alone to hold it in place, but the manual does say to re-tighten it, and to my mind that means some kind of torque - even if the intent is only to tighten it just until resistance is felt. The answer to "how tight should it be?" is a torque value, isn't it? The manual reveals nothing on this score...
Yes, after you have released the lick nut and washer and the chain has self tensioned. You do not tighten the bolt and lick nut to achieve tension, you loosen it, which achieves tension via the springs.
Quote from: Nurse Julie on March 10, 2019, 04:18:16 PMYes, after you have released the lick nut and washer and the chain has self tensioned. You do not tighten the bolt and lick nut to achieve tension, you loosen it, which achieves tension via the springs.Understood - it was the very non-specific "re-tighten" instruction in the manual that had me wondering, is all...
It looks consistent with just falling over onto the floor while stationary to me. If the gear lever is not ground away underside of tip, it would verify this. Perhaps fallen off its side stand.Signal brackets, I'd bend them back again either by supporting with something like a socket on the back/frame side of the bracket and tapping the face with a hammer to bring them back to flat. If the frame ends have also twisted, you can use an adjustable spanner on them to gently twist back to vertical to maintain alignment once the signals are mounted.
Well that side stand is too loose wrong bolt maybe securing it to the frame
Impossible to tell anything with it idling far too high. But, like you say, videos are difficult to hear anything on. It sounds like there is a rattle there somewhere, which would not be expected with the revs that high. Also, running quite poorly by the sounds of it, sounds like it needs a good service and basic maintenance before any real diagnostics can take place.