Hornet Service

[deanoet]

Bike is due a service, 32k miles so it is the valve clearance ones.
Honda have quoted £400... plus a further £50 if any adjustment is needed

Don't fancy paying that for a service as it is likely to need at least a new back tyre as well

Anyone recommend any good independent bike service places on or around the Wirral?


If that is the going rate for a valve clearance service check then so be it, I am hopeful it can be got a fair bit cheaper though


Thanks
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[Hahadumball]

spend 2 hours check em yourself, its not hard.
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[Baffler186]

If its any help, I was quoted £150 all in, from a private garage I trust. This was for the fazer so probably not much different to the Hornet in terms of valve clearance checks and adjustment. Shop around?
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[Rogerborg]

[Beehive Bedlam]

I don't know a lot about valve clearance checks but from what I have read they are often over looked and ignored.

My Fazer has done 53K 32 by me and has never been checked in the 13 months I've owned it. Seems fine.

[Tdibs]

[Rogerborg]

[whitedevil]

Both my cbr and my zx6rs clearances were tight when I did them.
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[Rogerborg]

10 miles? 10,000 miles? 100,000 miles?
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[Copycat73]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Copycat73]

[Rogerborg]

All those burned out valves.
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[bikertomm]

[Copycat73]

[Enduro Numpty]

[ZX-7R]

Had my ZX-7R's done a couple of weeks ago at 29k,had never been done according to my service history and receipts.4 needing replacing and the engine sounds better for it.

Manual states every 8k lol.
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[Fizzer Thou]

If the shim is 'under bucket' and needs replacing because the clearance is too tight,then the cam would need displacing in order to remove the bucket and shim,like on this R1 engine

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/Picture366.jpg
https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/Picture360.jpg

Then,if the shims cannot be swapped around,then replacements would need to be sourced

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/Picture358.jpg

If I did not have a stock of the common sizes for the Exup and R1 then I would buy them from Wemoto,who sell them at a reasonable price.Genuine shims are not cheap

Just to get to measure the clearances takes quite a bit of time,which is all chargeable.So every minute removing the tank/seat/fairing panels/airbox/coils etc soon adds up
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[Rogerborg]

So, OP should do...?
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