Showing posts with label tappets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tappets. Show all posts

Friday 17 August 2012

Tappet Adjustment

Fed up of excessive engine noise?
Does the bike's performance seems hampered 
even after checking air filter, tuning and sparkplug?
You may need to adjust the tappets. Loose tappets cause the engine noise and too tight tappets hamper the performance. This article simply shows the step-by-step detailed procedure to adjust the tappets of a single cylinder motorcycle in the form of pictures.


Note: The nut/bolt/spanner/feeler sizes mentioned are of RTR180. Your bike may have different sizes.