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Valve adjustment intervals are bogus!
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<blockquote data-quote="Scythian" data-source="post: 319459" data-attributes="member: 1112"><p>I am an engineer, and I'm willing to bet the 26K mile number was calculated statistically as the point where, based on wear and engine design, 50% of motorcycles will require adjustment to one or more valves.</p><p></p><p>You can push it further, maybe you are one of the 'tail-enders' of the bell curve in the 'not needed direction', or maybe you are a 'tail-ender' in the earlier adjustment group, but you don't know, do you?</p><p></p><p>It's a mean point and that means, quite literally, it's a statistical coin flip whether you require one or more valves adjusted at 26K</p><p></p><p>You are dead on Iggy--they don't make up these number out of thin air, there is some statistics and empirical data involved...</p><p></p><p>Having said that, I'm gonna have my valves checked at 26k (6K more miles), but I'm not going to sweat it if it runs out to 28 or 29k.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scythian, post: 319459, member: 1112"] I am an engineer, and I'm willing to bet the 26K mile number was calculated statistically as the point where, based on wear and engine design, 50% of motorcycles will require adjustment to one or more valves. You can push it further, maybe you are one of the 'tail-enders' of the bell curve in the 'not needed direction', or maybe you are a 'tail-ender' in the earlier adjustment group, but you don't know, do you? It's a mean point and that means, quite literally, it's a statistical coin flip whether you require one or more valves adjusted at 26K You are dead on Iggy--they don't make up these number out of thin air, there is some statistics and empirical data involved... Having said that, I'm gonna have my valves checked at 26k (6K more miles), but I'm not going to sweat it if it runs out to 28 or 29k. [/QUOTE]
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