What Have You Done To Your Tdm Today?

[g650xtdm]

Yesterday and today was my valve check adventure . . .

 

All the body parts are off being painted.  I had planned to take the forks off yesterday and change the fork oil, new front wheel bearings, and new headstock bearings.  But I also wanted to re-paint the radiator support, so I figured I would check the valves since I have no idea if it had been done previously (37K miles).  I was pretty much halfway there with the radiator support off, right?  I'm guessing it hadn't been checked and two intake valves were tight.  I was able to swap one shim over but needed the other so the job waited until today.  I had left the gears on and the chain on the gears, but apparently it slipped at some point because now it was a tooth or two off and the engine had moved from TDC at some point.  It got to the point that I had both cams out and I got it back to TDC  - but unsure which cylinder was at TDC.  50-50 chance I guess!  It seems I was lucky as it fired up fine.  Took the opportunity to take a hose to the radiator fins as they were clogged with bugs and then replaced the coolant and synched the carbs.

 

Oh yeah, I still need to do the forks and bearings . . .