old - Fazer Owners Club - old

Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: humbucker88 on 21 February 2012, 06:48:36 pm

Title: Cylinder Hear
Post by: humbucker88 on 21 February 2012, 06:48:36 pm

If I'm removing the cylinder head....do I NEED to remove the followers and shims? I'd like to disturb as little as possible...

Title: Re: Cylinder Hear
Post by: Gnasher on 21 February 2012, 09:43:43 pm

No all you need do is remove the cams.

Title: Re: Cylinder Hear
Post by: humbucker88 on 22 February 2012, 04:55:58 pm

Cheers, i've currently got the cylinder head off, forgive me if it's a stupid question...but...is there anyway for me to check the condition of cylinders 1 and 4 at TDC with the head off? Short of taking the the whole thing off of course

Title: Re: Cylinder Hear
Post by: Gnasher on 22 February 2012, 05:51:06 pm

It's not possible to get all the pistons at TDC at the same time.  If you want to check the cylinder walls, well most of it, all you need do is turn the crank over.  Before you do that ENSURE you know how the retime everything and the you have SECURED the cam chain or it will fall inside the crank case :'(
 

Title: Re: Cylinder Hear
Post by: humbucker88 on 23 February 2012, 12:09:24 am

well i've marked the chain and cams so i can put it back together, but if i crank it 180 to check 1 and 4 wont it mess up the timing/marks? or could i just crank till the chain's back in the same place?

Title: Re: Cylinder Hear
Post by: Gnasher on 23 February 2012, 08:09:37 am

The engine has it's own marks you should have aligned these before you removed the head, if you have a manual it's all in there.
 
It doesn't matter what position the chain is just ensure there is no slack at the front the slack should be at the back, what matters is what position the pistons are in relation to the cam shafts it all in the manual.