Motorcycle Repair: Valve clearance size, honda cbx1000, valve clearance


Question
i need the valve clearnace size for a Honda CBX1000 6 cylinder
Thanks

Answer
I always set mine a little roomy; the inlets at 0.08.

Official specs are:

Valve Clearance Cold - Inlet : 0.06-0.13  
Valve Clearance Cold - Exhaust : 0.06-0.13  

A site where a lot of the specs are displayed:

http://www.motorbikespecs.net/index.dyn?flag=2&model_id=25292&make=Honda

If you've rebuilt the engine, make sure you rotated the ccrank between putting the two sides of the cams in.  if #1 is on compression (lobes away from the plug) then #6 is on the rock (lobes both facing the plug) and vice versa.  Early manuals had an error, resulting in some people building essentially a big triple, which breaks the camchain after around 20 miles...

Good luck,  Jan