It might be your mic placement but the top end sounded like a bag of spanners! Are the rockers getting a good supply of oil? If they aren’t, it might explain the horrendous wear on the valve stems. Was there wear on the rockers where they contact the valve stems?
@@lindsaysampford3190 Hey Lindsay, the rockers had no wear on them considering the damage to the valves or I would have replaced them as well, this bike put me through the ringer but it really needs a new set of carbs to get it to run rite, to many air leaks from worn slides and needles. I set the valve clearance to factory specs and had some help from Union Jack motorcycles as to why this had happened. 👍
I noticed that haven't ground the valves in did they have new valve seats cut. And did you do a compression test?
@@kwakgreen the seats were cut to suit the new valves, I didn’t do a compression test that’s my bad.
It might be your mic placement but the top end sounded like a bag of spanners! Are the rockers getting a good supply of oil? If they aren’t, it might explain the horrendous wear on the valve stems. Was there wear on the rockers where they contact the valve stems?
@@lindsaysampford3190 Hey Lindsay, the rockers had no wear on them considering the damage to the valves or I would have replaced them as well, this bike put me through the ringer but it really needs a new set of carbs to get it to run rite, to many air leaks from worn slides and needles. I set the valve clearance to factory specs and had some help from Union Jack motorcycles as to why this had happened. 👍
I listened to other Tridents on RUclips; maybe they all sound like that; it’s that famous Triumph ‘valve rustle’ plus half as much again!