13-05-16, 01:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-05-16, 02:02 PM by His Dudeness.)
Yea that's pretty much it. Get that top cover off, I took the thermostat out to make that easier but I don't think you have to, get the side cover off the engine so you can rotate the engine to TDC on the compression stroke, you'll know you're on the compression stroke because the cam lobes will be pointing away from each other and then slide in the gauges, then rotate the engine again and do the same again for the other cylinders. There's a good step by step guide in the workshop manual in the download section. Page 3-5 and 3-6. You'd only be measuring the clearance so you wouldn't be taking the cams out so you don't need to worry about timing the engine or lining up the cams, you're just taking the covers off and rotating the engine and then putting the covers back on