Cam chain job

[Daniel.p]

Right this is a long shot but i need my cam chain replacing and dont want to pay a mechanic over the odds to get it done. So i was thinking if i was to get the chain new blade and tensioner would anyone do this job for me ill pay w.e price your asking for within reason and will drive to you? Thanks guys

[zimm]

If you can get the bike to mine, i'd be happy to help...

Im in Hereford .. dont know where you are.

[Daniel.p]

its a 2 and a half hour drive from here which aint bad how much would you want to do it mate?

[Mori Man]

Daniel , if your doing that you would also be best to leave bike with zimm and have him do your shims too.

Bike needs to be cold for this service so would need to be left overnight - if your sociable how about getting a slab of beers in and camping over and havin a good gab with the fella. In the "blurry" morning zimm could then show you what's what and if you've no interest in learning you at least get to see the work being done and knowing what has been done

zimm will sort it right out for ya and your drive home will rock your socks

Treat a cam chain exchange as a major service so go with new plugs , oil filter , oil , air filter and coolant and just be over whelmed as to how smooth your bike is again

Soz, but just doing the chain is a bit half arsed !

Hopefully zimm will have a stock of shims in if your needing any.

Just a thought and a nice way to meet a fellow member

MM!

[cargo]

now thats a plan if ever i saw one

[Daniel.p]

Yeh i was thinking about shims but i was planning on doing oil, filters and sparks next week and i one of the reasons i asked u lot was so i can learn im all too familiar with 2 stroke so 4 stroke baffles me but mori man u got it spot on mate ima treat it like a major service

[Mori Man]

Yeh i was thinking about shims but i was planning on doing oil, filters and sparks next week and i one of the reasons i asked u lot was so i can learn im all too familiar with 2 stroke so 4 stroke baffles me but mori man u got it spot on mate ima treat it like a major service

4 strokes are a piece of piss compared to 2T - trust me ! So if you watch what's being done you'll pick it up no worries (just remember to send zimm an anniversary card every year )

Once you see the pattern of the service it is oh so easy I got shown by my Bro - before that I read a Haynes manual and it just confused the toad out of me . The next best thing is the actual factory service manuals - totally different layout to a Haynes but if you just read the chapter about what you want to do it all becomes very relevant.

When doing a new motor i usually print out the pages and have them beside me as I work on them - but once you've done one in-line four they are all pretty much the same so all you need is clearances

Desmotronic and reverse parallel twin gets more exciting

MM!

[zimm]

pm sent

just ring if you want to chat about it.. my tinternet connections shite atm.

07504 496002

[cargo]

two strokes are easy

...................but getting a two stroke to be fast and sweet is a black art only understood by a very few

[gavinfdavies]

MM, do you have the factory service manuals on pc? oooh oooh oooh, pick me pick me! Any chance of a copy? i've got the microfiche, very useful for finding my way about, but the service manual would be useful!

[Mori Man]

MM, do you have the factory service manuals on pc? oooh oooh oooh, pick me pick me! Any chance of a copy? i've got the microfiche, very useful for finding my way about, but the service manual would be useful!

They are on the front page of this site

http://www.zxrworld.co.uk/zxr400/manual.html

[gavinfdavies]

i come here via a bookmark to the index page, and it automatically logs me in. i'd completely forgotten about the 'front page' as it were! cheers for pointing that out MM!