glwestcott
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Did my 72000 mile service last weekend and after all was said and done I had a really noisy right cylinder on my R1100 RT. I had done the throttle synch and she seemed to be running relatively smooth, but really noisy and seemed to not have as much power as it should. This evening I took her apart again and Oooops. Seemed I did the left cylinder correctly with the intake valves at 15 mm and the exhaust at 30, but when I had walked around the bike, I guess I got turned around and reversed them on the other side. Anyway, with both sides properly adjusted and a new synch job, she's much quiter and peppier again.
I do have a question for the tech savvy guru types here. Is there a trick on the fast synch. I have a throttlemeister so setting the throttle at a steady 2500 or so rpm's is easy and I can loosen the locknut and tweak the throttle adjust screw to get my twinmax perfectly centered, then even though I hold the set screw with a pair of needlenose pliers while I retighten the locknut, after tightening the synch is off to one side. I finally got it after much swearing by setting it off center to the other side on the twinmax a bit and then tightening the locknut. Tightening the locknut seemed to bring it back into center. Is this typical, or am I doing something else wrong?
By the way, I did come up with a really handy device to drain the transmission oil. I cut out a piece of plastic from a plant pot that garden plant had come in and trimmed it to about 8 inches long by three or so inches wide and put a v cut in one end. It could then be partially rolled and slipped back up the tunnel and the oil drained quite cleanly out and down the v cut into my oil pan. The plastic is tough enough to clean after and store in the toolbox for more uses.
I do have a question for the tech savvy guru types here. Is there a trick on the fast synch. I have a throttlemeister so setting the throttle at a steady 2500 or so rpm's is easy and I can loosen the locknut and tweak the throttle adjust screw to get my twinmax perfectly centered, then even though I hold the set screw with a pair of needlenose pliers while I retighten the locknut, after tightening the synch is off to one side. I finally got it after much swearing by setting it off center to the other side on the twinmax a bit and then tightening the locknut. Tightening the locknut seemed to bring it back into center. Is this typical, or am I doing something else wrong?
By the way, I did come up with a really handy device to drain the transmission oil. I cut out a piece of plastic from a plant pot that garden plant had come in and trimmed it to about 8 inches long by three or so inches wide and put a v cut in one end. It could then be partially rolled and slipped back up the tunnel and the oil drained quite cleanly out and down the v cut into my oil pan. The plastic is tough enough to clean after and store in the toolbox for more uses.