I am looking into servicing them myself. Looking for a feeler gauge set and the shim kit. What do you guys use? How about some links for your friend here.

 

Not too hard to do.
Do you have a manual? It comes in handy especially for the torque settings. You'll need a torque wrench, a feeler gauge set and a telescopic magnet helps.
A quick search of the FAQ here will give you a blow by blow with pictures. That's what helped me the most.
You can get the feeler gauge at any auto parts store.
The shims can be found on E-Bay, at Bike Bandit or Rocky Mt. ATV here in the states or at your local dealer. I think most buy the "HOT CAMS" kits.
I got my local dealer to swap mine for his. This won't work everywhere.
Gather up your tools and parts and check back here.
You'll find plenty of help.
Good luck
Rob

 

Get yourself an in/lb's torque wrench.
Small feelers.

Do yourself a favor and order hot-cams shim kit off ebay. If you buy them by the piece you risk getting wrong size and doing it a few times. Plus, in the future if you need shims again you will have them.

Keep everything in the head CLEAN.

Good luck, and may the force be with you.

 

Yes, I thought about hot cams, but a quick search on their site didn´t show anything for the KLX. Are the kits model specific? Or is it a one fits all?
Ebay is a little easier for me, so that´s good you guys mentioned it.

Yes, I must buy a kit, since I live in Rio and things are very different over here (...sometimes I miss the US ...had anything available anywhere, anytime and cheap!).

The torque wrench is on my list, too.

Any link to a decent feeler set? Guess I´ll look on ebay, too.

I still gonna have to let the dealer do it one more time (if they´ve actually ever done it ), since the 30,000km service is not too far from now (definitely will happen before I get my hands on what I need to do it myself).

Oh, and the links were for the shim and gauge. The process is not very new to me, since I used to do it on 4-stroke egines that I used on r/c planes a few years ago. They are just smaller and don´t use shims.

Here´s me hovering (yes, hovering like a heli) my old Yak-55 with a 4-stroke Saito .82, at a field in Grapevine, TX, in 2008.

 

The shim size you need is 7.48mm.
Here's a link that will help.
https://www.kawasakiforums.com/forum...200miles-3146/

 

Good luck on finding feeler guages with all the incruments that you need. I have 2 set's of craftsman that are inch, with a few metric. I just bought some off the snap-on truck today that were metric, and they don't even have all of the incruments needed to check the clearance. Still scratching my head here on what to do.

The one I bought today is part # FBM-320. The bag says snap-on but the feeler guage's say blue point. Not that it really makes a difference on the name. It has .10mm, .15mm, .20mm, .25mm etc. What about .11m, .12mm, .13mm. I just don't get how people are properly checking valve clearance.

 

I bought from local car parts dealer a set of metric feeler gauge made by K-D Tools (part no. 2274).
Sizes I have are: 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, 0.07, 0.08,. 0.09, And then from 0.1 to 1.0 in 0.05 mm increments.

 

Don't have a metric gauge, use a conversion table to .001's.
Don't have the exact size gauge?, use two adjacent feelers that add up to .001 less than the one you need. Wipe both down so that they pair up together.

 

i chickened out after reading and re-reading the instructions, and looking at the manual...decided to hire a motorcycle mechanic instructor to give me one-on-one instructions on how to do a proper valve check and shimming on the 2009 klx250sf...this way i'll be working in a large garage with every motorcycle tool possible along with every shim i would possibly need....i will try to take pictures and give you guys a detailed instruction after....

since they have a tire changer..i guess i can replace my rear tire too while i'm there...hahaha

 

the moto shop that runs the classes said that they will provide a one-on-one lesson on checking valves and shimming for $180 with one of their instructors...i think i'll pay and learn....jetting was more head scratching work....but, i don't want to have any problems with valve adjustments....