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posted April 24, 2010 04:28 PM
cam cover removal
replacing spark plugs, figured I should check vavles to. Will I have to pull the cam cover out of there or just lift it enough to check the valve lash?
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
  
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posted April 24, 2010 04:29 PM
 Edited By: 3000psi and falling on 25 Apr 2010 00:41
and do I remove the pair air things on the cover to? And do you need to remove the throttle bodies like the service manual says?
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 04:52 PM
No the throttle bodies stay untouched.
There is not enough space to check the lash with the cover still in the bike.
The cam cover should come out the right side of the bike fairly easy.
The pair air suction valves need to be removed , those are easy enough.
Unplug the ignition wire harness for more clearance too.
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posted April 24, 2010 04:58 PM
Great news, should have it off in a few min then from where im at. Thanks for the quick reply! Do I remove the crank sensor cover and go that route? or just look to see when the valves are closed?
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 05:05 PM
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Great news, should have it off in a few min then from where im at. Thanks for the quick reply! Do I remove the crank sensor cover and go that route? or just look to see when the valves are closed?
No just check 'em when the valves are closed is good enough.
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posted April 24, 2010 05:06 PM
Report back with your findings 
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posted April 24, 2010 05:23 PM
will do, it might be later tonight, the girlfriend it making my take a break for a night out.
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 06:06 PM
Still pinging?? Checking valves. Mike had his checked at 20,000 all were still in spec :-)
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posted April 24, 2010 06:16 PM
Yeah still pinging, but the plugs look kinda bad along with the air filter being very dirty. Ill post pics in a bit of the plugs.
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 08:19 PM
Edited By: 3000psi and falling on 25 Apr 2010 04:20
They all look just like this. What do you guys think? These have about 10,000 hard miles on them.
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 08:24 PM
Edited By: 3000psi and falling on 25 Apr 2010 04:26
10,000 miles on this too, Its much worse than I thought it would be. Man those bugs are wedged in deep, hmm I wonder how that happened?? lol
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 08:37 PM
Gotta love ram air bikes ! 
Actually the plugs and filter look pretty decent. The filter looks like it can be blown off and used one last time... But pics usually are decieving lol!
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posted April 24, 2010 09:03 PM
In this case yeah the picture is decieving, From an angle the filter turns black. Ill be checking the valves tomorrow. So if the plugs look good what els should I look into for causing the pinging? Like I have said, the bike did not do this for the last 16,000 miles. So I find it hard to buy that its out of tune now. ???
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 09:15 PM
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In this case yeah the picture is decieving, From an angle the filter turns black. Ill be checking the valves tomorrow. So if the plugs look good what els should I look into for causing the pinging? Like I have said, the bike did not do this for the last 16,000 miles. So I find it hard to buy that its out of tune now. ???
You'd be surprised to see what a fresh set of plugs can do... And you're changing the filter too so she'll be flowing better that ever .
Remember to check the gap on all the new plugs too cause sometimes they come out of their boxes all out of wack even though they are new.
Uneven gaps will cause all kinds of problems too.
All shops that I've seen just drop in a set of plugs without even checking them 
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posted April 24, 2010 09:32 PM
Ok my hopes are high, Im ready to go on a ride over the cascades!
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 09:38 PM
Awesome! A 2 wheeled vacation eh?
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posted April 24, 2010 09:53 PM
Yeah A small one, think ill ride over the pass to this town Leavenworth WA, stay the night, then head back to Oak Harbor. I think it will be a great ride on the ninja! About 2 years ago when I had just bought my bike I rode from Houston TX to St. paul MN and back! I dont think I could have found a more boaring trip to make. Flat straight roads for thousands and thousands of miles..lol But once up there I found some real nice roads in western Wisconsin, this one road the locals called rollar coaster road was the best road ive ever ridden!!
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 24, 2010 09:58 PM
You lucky devil! I can't wait to do some long trips this year . Last year was a dry year for me so I hope to make up for it this year
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posted April 25, 2010 10:58 AM
ok cover off, looks very clean! thats a good thing!
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 25, 2010 11:04 AM
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posted April 25, 2010 11:09 AM
Trying to figure out what ones are what, kinda confused... Im looking at the serv manual
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 25, 2010 11:15 AM
Not looking good
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 25, 2010 11:20 AM
The exhaust velves are the ones on the exhaust side right?
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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posted April 25, 2010 11:41 AM
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The exhaust velves are the ones on the exhaust side right?
Correct!
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posted April 25, 2010 11:47 AM
number 4 exhaust is 0.20 and 0.19 so far.. To tight right?
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08 ZX14, 2010 Persimmon Red bodywork.
Flies pulled, 16-42, BMC street, 8" extensions, drag shock, cut pan, Cycle Concepts Drag Pack and springs, muzzy m14 w/ oval can, lowered, Shinco usoft rear, pcv with autotune, leightweight Shori 18ah battery, throttle meister. 500lbs at bandimeres scales with half tank of juice.
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