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Doing my valves next week and wondered if anyone has a valve shim tool that they can lend me?

looks like this

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cheers

drewps

I'm alittle far away to ship it back and forth ,but I made my own out of a piece of 1/4 in plate steel.Not to hard to make just need torches to heat up the steel to bend it then a bench grinder to shape it. . Before I seen that type of tool I used to roll th motor over till the valve was open then wedge a piece of steel between the cam and lifter bucket edge( sort of looked like a ? so it wouldn't pop back out) then roll the motor over to get the shim out a bit of a PITA but worked.

Hope someone closer can help good luck.

Measure the shims, work out the clearances then take the cam out, its quicker in the long run.

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Measure the shims, work out the clearances then take the cam out, its quicker in the long run.

yes thats prob a good way to go

They do them here http://www.motoward.co.uk/valve-adjust-tool-p-2054.html and looking at the description they are the Genuine Yamaha ones not the motion pro ones. I,ve ordered a lot of parts from them and they send them out pretty quick.

Tony

they are pretty cheap, but I would only use it the once. I have some thick angle iron here so I could make one too :eusa_think:

thanks for the ideas guys

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