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[Moded86R]

Hey guys I own a 2004yfz.About 5 years ago I was riding it at st joe and when I brought it home I washed it.Well I took it down the road to wash it off and it died.No noises.No smoke no giant hole in motor.Just died.

Well it sat in my basement for the past 5 years collecting dust while I worked on my big block chevy nova.Anyway I recently took it out of the garage and took the motor out.Removed the head and cylinder and I found that sand had been sucked up inside the cylinder.

Last friday I ordered a new cylinder,Pistons,Rings,gaskets,circlips.Just gotta get new head bolts.

But while I was taking it apart I sat the head upside down and the little buckets with the shims in them fell off the top of valves.So I don't know which one went to which one.

What should I do to rememdy this situation.I would like to ride the bike a couple days before it gets to cold.

Thanks for any advice.It's good to be working on this bike again.Would love to be able to ride it.Feel that power again!

[wongtong]

The 2 exhaust buckets should be bigger than the 3 intake buckets so you will be able to figure out where those go, then but you'll have to do a trial and error, put the shims on then the buckets, put your cams back in torque down the caps, then check you clearance, the exhaust should only be 2 tries, the intake just do until you get the right tolerances.

[Moded86R]

Thanks for the info.The part hopefully will be here thursday or friday.Ordered everything from service honda.

Thanks again!

[Moded86R]

well guys more problems with the rebuild.

I put the motor all togother.Reinstalled it in the frame.Hooked it all up and the motor wouldn't start.Only fired a little bit out of the carb.Figured it was valve adjustment wrong.

So I took the cam cover off checked my clearances.They weren't right so removed the cams.When I did I noticed that one of the clips that holds the cam into place was missing.On the intake side.

Now I can say for 90 percent certainty I installed this when I put it togother.I removed the stator side cover.Removed the flywheel and tore it all the way down to the timing chain on the crank.And I cannot find this clip.I also stuck a magnet down into a small hole where oil drains into the lowerend.Took both cams out and checked the head as best I could.I cannot find it.

I really don't know what to do at this point.


Has this ever happened to anyone else.If I left this clip in there.Which I really really don't wanna do.Where could it get to.I don't think it can get into the transmission.

Any advice?