Doogan,
I've read Waddell Wilson's book and he had his way of adjusting the clearances. Remember the letters: EOIC. Sound familiar now?
V-twin is a V8 sliced off, right? One time I spun the pushrod locknut on the opposite side. Nephew called me and he kept riding it home or over to me, don't remember. Either way, the rod survived, readjusted and no problem.
On the inline4, they tell you to adjust 8 valves with the #1 cyl at TDC-C. You then turn the engine one full turn and adjust #4 and the other 2 valves at their EOIC position if you will. So you can go 2 ways setting the pushrod. Find TDC-C as John stated, or Waddell's way with the letter memory.
Pushrod wise, you expand the rod so you are at the point of it acting like a ball bearing spinning in its tight cage. Spins like a motherfucker, but zip is there any movement up and down. Clean a flat on the rod. Use a magic marker or the old lady's nail polish and paint one flat. The S&S count is 24 flats? Mem is saying that's 4 full turns. Use the count off the manual. So presetting would be to run each rod to their presetting or bearing setting so you can watch who, or the bearing height shows you are ready to install the other rod to its flat height, then go back to the bearing setting rod and set that one. You're starting point, right?
Got enough balls behind the zipper to run say, 2 flats less? That's a more quiet lifter, less lift at the valve. Or, or?, you leave the intake alone, 2 flats less at the exhaust. Why? Cam comes around to open the ex, whereas the ex sits longer to cool off, cylinder has more closing time to keep the power [torque] stroke going, yeah, but I'd trade quiet and torque over top end speed. It's the quicker picker upper setting.
For the position part of the cam, the trick is to catch the 'as soon as.' By that I mean is when the letters EO comes around, it means, "as soon as the Exhaust Opens = STOP!" We now adjust the intake pushrod to its bearing setting call it, then the flat count the book calls for.
You are still looking at the same cylinder and now begin to watch the IC Intake Close. As soon as you see IC = STOP! Set the bearing set then the flat counts on the exhaust. You're done with that cylinder. Proceed to the next cylinder and repeat after me. I.....
I've read Waddell Wilson's book and he had his way of adjusting the clearances. Remember the letters: EOIC. Sound familiar now?
V-twin is a V8 sliced off, right? One time I spun the pushrod locknut on the opposite side. Nephew called me and he kept riding it home or over to me, don't remember. Either way, the rod survived, readjusted and no problem.
On the inline4, they tell you to adjust 8 valves with the #1 cyl at TDC-C. You then turn the engine one full turn and adjust #4 and the other 2 valves at their EOIC position if you will. So you can go 2 ways setting the pushrod. Find TDC-C as John stated, or Waddell's way with the letter memory.
Pushrod wise, you expand the rod so you are at the point of it acting like a ball bearing spinning in its tight cage. Spins like a motherfucker, but zip is there any movement up and down. Clean a flat on the rod. Use a magic marker or the old lady's nail polish and paint one flat. The S&S count is 24 flats? Mem is saying that's 4 full turns. Use the count off the manual. So presetting would be to run each rod to their presetting or bearing setting so you can watch who, or the bearing height shows you are ready to install the other rod to its flat height, then go back to the bearing setting rod and set that one. You're starting point, right?
Got enough balls behind the zipper to run say, 2 flats less? That's a more quiet lifter, less lift at the valve. Or, or?, you leave the intake alone, 2 flats less at the exhaust. Why? Cam comes around to open the ex, whereas the ex sits longer to cool off, cylinder has more closing time to keep the power [torque] stroke going, yeah, but I'd trade quiet and torque over top end speed. It's the quicker picker upper setting.
For the position part of the cam, the trick is to catch the 'as soon as.' By that I mean is when the letters EO comes around, it means, "as soon as the Exhaust Opens = STOP!" We now adjust the intake pushrod to its bearing setting call it, then the flat count the book calls for.
You are still looking at the same cylinder and now begin to watch the IC Intake Close. As soon as you see IC = STOP! Set the bearing set then the flat counts on the exhaust. You're done with that cylinder. Proceed to the next cylinder and repeat after me. I.....
Glad you got the noise adjusted out of your bike.
