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<blockquote data-quote="Fred W" data-source="post: 1162660" data-attributes="member: 3828"><p>No, probably not.</p><p></p><p>What you <em>NEED </em>to do is to check your valves. With only 26 k miles they are probably still "in spec" according to <a href="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=111697" target="_blank">a poll that I ran on here about valve checks</a>.</p><p></p><p>But there is a small (but hardly insignificant) percentage of bikes that were already out of spec at their first valve check and if that was your bike you would not want to just let it go another 26k miles.</p><p></p><p>Also, the bike will make no noise since the intake valves generally get tighter in clearance over time (unlike some old school push-rod and rocker arm bikes that got looser and noisy). Your FJR valves will remain perfectly quiet and sedate right up until the clearance is too slight and you start burning up your valves and valve seats.</p><p></p><p>Just check them, or have them checked. It isn't that big of a deal really. Unless you'd like gambling on an top end failure in your future</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred W, post: 1162660, member: 3828"] No, probably not. What you [I]NEED [/I]to do is to check your valves. With only 26 k miles they are probably still "in spec" according to [URL="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=111697"]a poll that I ran on here about valve checks[/URL]. But there is a small (but hardly insignificant) percentage of bikes that were already out of spec at their first valve check and if that was your bike you would not want to just let it go another 26k miles. Also, the bike will make no noise since the intake valves generally get tighter in clearance over time (unlike some old school push-rod and rocker arm bikes that got looser and noisy). Your FJR valves will remain perfectly quiet and sedate right up until the clearance is too slight and you start burning up your valves and valve seats. Just check them, or have them checked. It isn't that big of a deal really. Unless you'd like gambling on an top end failure in your future [/QUOTE]
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