Cam Chain

[HJFazer]

Hi All,


So I'm taking my bike into the Oval Motorcycle centre next week to do the carb rubbers, the valve clearances and to balance the carbs as well.


Not going to lie, there's no way in hell I'd attempt all that on my own so glad I'll have Matt to help out where necessary.


One question though, my cam chain is rattling a lot but Matt advised that unless I actually replaced the sliders (I think) as well as the chain, it would only be doing half a job... I'm probably not going to do this next week, but I guess I wondered, is doing half the job worth it?


I had some work done this week and when I picked it up he started a 2002 model fazer so I could hear how it should sound.... it was SO much quieter than mine! I'm thinking I'll get Matt to have a listen when I'm there, but wanted other foccers thoughts and input really.


Cheers


HJF 

[His Dudeness]

The tensioner pushes against the rear slider and the slider pushes against the chain so the slider wears with the chain so in an ideal world you'd do both to get the maximum benifit but as long as you haven't run the engine for ages with a badly stretched cam chain it should be fine to just do the chain