Maintenance of heavily modified KLX 250

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05-28-2016, 12:33 PM

Matt88-8

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Originally Posted by Brewster

When you can't get a shim thin enough to bring your valve into spec, it's time for new valves. The seats usually hold up much longer than the valves.

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Brewster

Seriously? I thought these valves where Coated, once you wear through the coating your valves are done!
Maybe I'm just crazy. ..

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05-29-2016, 11:43 AM

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I believe only titanium valves have the coating.

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05-30-2016, 11:39 PM

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So you really just run them until they are to wore to shim?

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05-31-2016, 09:17 PM

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So you really just run them until they are to wore to shim?

Correct

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06-01-2016, 01:21 PM

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Once they are wore to the shim, you replace the shim with a shorter shim and let them wear some more!

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