Merry Christmas!
I'd like to take the time of Christmas vacation to do the valve check and adjustment to my daily commuter ST1300.
I've done some research and I'm not exactly sure about how difficult to DIY the whole process. A little background, I'm a computer tech guy current running my business of Oracle consulting as well as system development. I had taken car engine apart and reassembled it. And I'm comfortable to do all maintenance except for tire change on cars.
With that said, would you think I'm capable of DIYing the valve thing? How much time would it take and what kind of tools do I need? I've never done any valve check on bikes by myself. I see some threads talk about shim replacement. At what circumstances do I need to replace the shim? Wouldn't an adjustment of the valve enough?
I'd like to take the time of Christmas vacation to do the valve check and adjustment to my daily commuter ST1300.
I've done some research and I'm not exactly sure about how difficult to DIY the whole process. A little background, I'm a computer tech guy current running my business of Oracle consulting as well as system development. I had taken car engine apart and reassembled it. And I'm comfortable to do all maintenance except for tire change on cars.
With that said, would you think I'm capable of DIYing the valve thing? How much time would it take and what kind of tools do I need? I've never done any valve check on bikes by myself. I see some threads talk about shim replacement. At what circumstances do I need to replace the shim? Wouldn't an adjustment of the valve enough?