ServiceMaxx and Auto Decompress... oh my!

 Did some flywheel measurements on the big cat engine.  It's amazing how different the service manuals are between manufacturers.  I know that's kind of der thing to say.  One picture shows the steps to take, and its fairly straightforward, till you get down to line 7.  My brain completely farted when taking a look at that, but with Jeremy's help we got it all taken care.

This is the table the service manual had, with all the numbers mathed out.

I got real familiar with my drz400 starting Thursday morning, and got so wrapped up I missed the day entirely.  What started with simply opening up the valve cover, ended with the engine on my bench.  That was soon followed by the the cylinder and head coming off.  Cleaned them both of real good and am now waiting for a valve spring compressor.  The tops of the valves and springs are seated way down in the head, so I am getting one that is similar to the one at the school.  Except, it has a hollow end that encircles the outside top of the valve.  That will be cut open to allow me to pull out the keepers and hopefully check the valve measurements.  News on that to continue.  

'08 DRZ400sm Camshaft Automatic Decompression

Truck was making a metal clatter sound, that I thought was intermittent but found it to be prominent just as it is put under load, and will decrease as engine speed increases.  Since I have had trouble with the pos Ford rockers before, I decided to have a look-see.  One of the rocker arms on the left bank had more wiggle than the others. I took it off, cleaned it out, and checked the pushtube for straightness.  There was more wear on both contact points of the rocker arm than I'd like to have seen, but I was under time constraint.  Kind of like being in the wilds of Alaska.  I got it back together to proper torque and headed off.  All that being said, the noise is still there but not as noticeable.  Will be looking into that more.

Did a bunch of stuff on the ServiceMaxx software.  I learned more than I could have thought, but know I've barely scratched the surface.  The errors are frustrating, but learning to understand what they mean is invaluable.  The testing for the KOEO and KOER tests must be in sequence to work. Some of the other testing requires that the user terminate the test to complete it.  All things that were stated somewhere in the software, as long as it's found.


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