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royhall:
I am just rebuilding the top end of my GS1000 after refurbing the parts. I arrived at the bit I hate namely refitting the valves. Anyone who has done a Honda head will know the retaining collets can be quite tricky to locate on the valve, well a bucket and shim head is even harder as there is no room at all for fingers. Anyway, after about and hour and a half of sweating and swearing I finally got the last valve done. After some Yes Yes Yes and air punching I decided to clear the bench, just to the left I noticed a small plastic bag with eight high quality Viton valve stem seals within. Yes you guessed it I had forgotten to fit the stem seals. Tomorrow I get to do the whole rotten job all over again. Old age does nothing good to a person.

Laverda Dave:
I feel your pain Roy. I've just ground and refitted the same type of valve arrangement to the Z400J. The collets and valves caps are so small it was nigh on impossible to get my fingers in the space to fit the collets once the spring compressor was in there. To make it worse the valve caps were angled making the compressor slip. I made sure my head was out of the way when it came to fitting the collets (with a magnet and small screwdriver in the end).

royhall:
I ended up putting a tiny dab of grease on the collet then sticking it to the valve with a magnetic screwdriver. A little trick I shall be using again tomorrow.

philward:

--- Quote from: royhall on April 17, 2021, 07:25:54 PM ---I ended up putting a tiny dab of grease on the collet then sticking it to the valve with a magnetic screwdriver. A little trick I shall be using again tomorrow.

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Thats the same trick as I use Roy

Johnwebley:
Turn them into 2 strokes


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