Using tape never even crossed my mind. Son of a bitch, lol. I even just bought some more of that awesome black Gorilla tape that blows duct tape out of the water!
I don't want to give the illusion of competence 😂 I did that shim under bucket adjustment finally. Honestly, the cam chain tensioner was the trickiest bit by far. Well, we'll see... I want to get it running first to verify I did it correct, hah. I probably should have lowered the sound on the fuck part, lol. But it scared the hell out of me when it happened!
If it's a gen 2 SV650, I think those are slightly different. The housing/mounting for sure looks a little different, but it may work the same. Yep. Dimensions were nice to have. I used too thin of gauge aluminum at first, and that didn't work at all. The 0.75mm scrap steel I had worked alright, but 1mm would be much better. Also, more accurate cuts and I probably wouldn't have had it shooting out and scaring the shit out of me, but where is the fun in that?
@@matttriestodothings I will be performing surgery on a VFR800 in this case, which actually seems to be reasonably easy to do :) I sold my SV (kinda regret it; might get a 1000 at some stage to replace it).
@@UnCivilEngineerIRL I'm guessing you already know this, but if you go looking for a cam chain tensioner on a VFR800 from 1998-2001, you might be really surprised at what you find :-P At some point I will probably buy an 80s VFR1000. I need to have a gear driven cam bike in my life. Don't need it immediately, but it needs to be there. Plus, the community at VFRWorld is pretty awesome.
@@matttriestodothings Unfortunately Honda have forsaken me and withdrawn my blessed gears, replaced with accursed chains :( (first of the VTEC 800s) I have an old ('89) CBR250R (with gear driven cams, pretty awesome little bike)
I realize now I should have put a jump scare warning, lol. If you have mechanical skills and made a good tool from the beggining (something I don't posses), it'll make the valve adjustment so much easier.
I'm doing a valve adjustment on my 650 v strom now but i was having trouble wirh the chain tensioner but with your key tip i can finish up tomorrow thanks again keep up the good work.
I commented already on your valve adjustment video, then I ran into this. Makes sense now. Gen 3 vstrom probably has a different tensioner. What repair manual brand are you using? They might have the dimensions for a key for my bike. Thanks.
I have the factory service manual--the big one. I'm out of town currently, but I'll be back soon, and I can peek through the manual and see what they say about the cam chain tensioners and associated tools. One thing I'd do differently on the Gen1 again is to simply leave the tool wound up to relieve the chain slack and not actually remove the tensioners if not necessary. It would require cutting better holding cct tools, but it would probably save a ton of time and frusration.
I watched a video on valve adjustment on gen 2 DL650 at CircleNZ.co.nz. This man rents Vstroms and are some of his favorites. I looked up gen2/3 and tensioners are the same #s. There is a central bolt that he removed without taking whole unit out. that should be easier , but it's still tight.
I love the "mousetrap" effect you gave yourself installing it.
I would tape it down...
Using tape never even crossed my mind. Son of a bitch, lol. I even just bought some more of that awesome black Gorilla tape that blows duct tape out of the water!
Lol I jumped the first time you yelled f@ck. Wasn’t expecting that.
I don't want to give the illusion of competence 😂
I did that shim under bucket adjustment finally. Honestly, the cam chain tensioner was the trickiest bit by far. Well, we'll see... I want to get it running first to verify I did it correct, hah.
I probably should have lowered the sound on the fuck part, lol. But it scared the hell out of me when it happened!
@@matttriestodothings laughing with you not at you. Been there in the middle of jobs before.
Nice
Pretty handy that you had the dimensions!
I will be doing cam chain tensioner replacements on a bike soon and it has been on my mind.
If it's a gen 2 SV650, I think those are slightly different. The housing/mounting for sure looks a little different, but it may work the same.
Yep. Dimensions were nice to have. I used too thin of gauge aluminum at first, and that didn't work at all. The 0.75mm scrap steel I had worked alright, but 1mm would be much better. Also, more accurate cuts and I probably wouldn't have had it shooting out and scaring the shit out of me, but where is the fun in that?
@@matttriestodothings I will be performing surgery on a VFR800 in this case, which actually seems to be reasonably easy to do :)
I sold my SV (kinda regret it; might get a 1000 at some stage to replace it).
@@UnCivilEngineerIRL I'm guessing you already know this, but if you go looking for a cam chain tensioner on a VFR800 from 1998-2001, you might be really surprised at what you find :-P
At some point I will probably buy an 80s VFR1000. I need to have a gear driven cam bike in my life. Don't need it immediately, but it needs to be there. Plus, the community at VFRWorld is pretty awesome.
@@matttriestodothings Unfortunately Honda have forsaken me and withdrawn my blessed gears, replaced with accursed chains :( (first of the VTEC 800s)
I have an old ('89) CBR250R (with gear driven cams, pretty awesome little bike)
@@UnCivilEngineerIRL Ohhhh damn. The CBR250R looks so awesome. I'm not sure if we even got those in the states.
That's pretty funny dude but great tip about the diy tool.
I realize now I should have put a jump scare warning, lol.
If you have mechanical skills and made a good tool from the beggining (something I don't posses), it'll make the valve adjustment so much easier.
I'm doing a valve adjustment on my 650 v strom now but i was having trouble wirh the chain tensioner but with your key tip i can finish up tomorrow thanks again keep up the good work.
@@greggmel5825 fantastic. Good luck on the adjustment. Thanks for the kind words.
I commented already on your valve adjustment video, then I ran into this. Makes sense now. Gen 3 vstrom probably has a different tensioner. What repair manual brand are you using? They might have the dimensions for a key for my bike. Thanks.
I have the factory service manual--the big one. I'm out of town currently, but I'll be back soon, and I can peek through the manual and see what they say about the cam chain tensioners and associated tools.
One thing I'd do differently on the Gen1 again is to simply leave the tool wound up to relieve the chain slack and not actually remove the tensioners if not necessary. It would require cutting better holding cct tools, but it would probably save a ton of time and frusration.
I watched a video on valve adjustment on gen 2 DL650 at CircleNZ.co.nz. This man rents Vstroms and are some of his favorites. I looked up gen2/3 and tensioners are the same #s. There is a central bolt that he removed without taking whole unit out. that should be easier , but it's still tight.
That's good to know, thanks Frank. I'll have to start researching that before too long.