ok heres the deal, i started the bike this morning. fluid came rushing out of the middle of the pipes where the slip ons meet the headers/collector whatever. yes the cooling system was flushed and yes the cap was replaced.....im at now going to check to see if the petcock is stuck open. then i will take apart the carburetors to see if the needle is stuck open allowing said fuel into the cylinders. please dont get this confused with the engine overheating.

 

check the petcock and make sure the pvlir is in the correct place.this happened to a freinds bike,a superhawk,and gas was coming thru the rear exaust.
it wasnt good.the diaphram could be no good anymore and could force fluids where it dont belong.

 

i checked the petcock and its good. i started the bike again and this time actually looked at the fluid....ya its coolant. i got it flushed and leak tested. you would think that this wouldve shown something was up. but what ev. i just ordered two gaskets from the stealership. im gonna look for a head removal thread here but expect my to ask questions anyway. thanks.

 

Down load the service manual, if you don't already have one and pull the heads, it's not that hard. Just follow the steps in the manual.

 

i found an online manual, but i cant donwload it, link? it says you have to pull the cams to take off head? really? i would rather not have to mess with the timing. i was hoping to just separate the cam sprockets from the shafts and zip tie them in place on the chain and not have to worry about it.

 

try this
https://www.superhawkforum.com/forum...-manual-11365/

 

I'm pretty sure that you can take the head off without removing the cams like you're suggesting. Removing the sprockets from the shafts could work if the sprockets fit down the side of the head. I can't visualize if there's enough room right now...

It still seems like it's more work than it's worth, though- setting timing really is straightforward to do. It takes 15 min of making sure you know the process and 10 minutes of putting the chain back on correctly if you've never done it before. It sounds like you have, which I honestly bet you could do the whole thing 10.

 

so ive turned my patio into a garage. i already found something fucked up. the velocity stacks were backwards......so i post pics of the teardown? does anyone care?

 

I'd check in every once in awhile (or like everyday as I'm on the internet at work haha) stoopid computers giving me a job and then making me look at them all the time...

https://www.superhawkforum.com/forum...rebuild-23868/

Forum helped me a bunch, although most problems I ran into I posted in a separate thread...

 

ya i looked at your thread, but its seems to be more entire bike oriented. not really engine specific. good job btw.

 

sure enough, heres the milky oil. do the cams look right? not set to TDC.

 

Cams look smooth. Oil indeed is murky.

I went into the engine a bit, although like I said when I came across issues and opened up new threads so the experts could address them specifically rather than just look through another build thread of someone babbling about waiting for parts to come in and being excited and all. If you plan on taking the covers off, you may want to check the valves clearances first to see if you want to replace any shims.

 

ya, ive reached my stopping pint for tonight. i was reading the timing section and am hella confused. you cant take the heads off without taking off the cam holders, thus taking out the cams. so when i set the front cams align the FT in the sight hole and make sure the FI and FE are on the outside of the cam gears level with the head surface? now for the rears i do the same thing but to make sure im on the right stroke should the front cam marks be on the inside of the cam gears?

IN valve clearance: .16
EX valve clearance: .31 ===== hundredths? really? seems kinda....big

 

Seems like you got it right by the description... this stuff is really kinda confusing in words as the front and rear have the same procedure, but the alignment is slightly off.

The easiest way for me to tell is that the cam lobes are pointing out and upward when you're at TDC for the front, and up and indward when you're at TDC for the rear...

This is the front:


Rear (image was jacked from another thread):

 

ok, im gonna get that socket tomorrow and set TDC.