different exhaust temps

[the chef]

I had the pipes off the machine yesterday and dicided to crank her up and see how loud it really was , i only ran it a minute or two and when I put my hand down to feel the exhaust I noticed the front cylinder s exhaust was much hotter than the one in back, whats up with this? the chef

[RebelRouser]

Hey Chef;
Sounds Like You Need To Do One Of 4 Things, Sychronize Your Carbs, Adjust Your Valves, Check Your Sparkplugs Gap And Fireing, Or Check Your Compression....
And Theres Probibly Other Thing I'm Not Thinking Of Right Now....

[the chef]

Hey Chef;
Sounds Like You Need To Do One Of 4 Things, Sychronize Your Carbs, Adjust Your Valves, Check Your Sparkplugs Gap And Fireing, Or Check Your Compression....
And Theres Probibly Other Thing I'm Not Thinking Of Right Now....

hmmmmmmmmm....this bike only has 14,000 miles on it, had only 8,500 on it when i bought it , im thinking its not ready for valve adjustment or has any compression problems, but I could check. has new plugs gapped them myself at .022. where are you from reb? are you a southern man? i mean you dont like cornbread!!!??? thanks come back, the chef

[RebelRouser]

Southern In Heart, But Western In Location.... Reno, Nv...
I Would Still Sudjest You Check The Above Listed Items... Any Thing And Everything Can Have A Adverse Efect On The True Performance Of A Machiene.... But Like I Said Before I'm Probibly forgeting Something That Could Be The Culperate....

[quakeholio]

Valve clearance shouldn't be put off for too long, and I would say that it's time you check your clearances. The clymer manual for my GS1100 said check them every 600 miles, that is insane or wrong, I don't know wich it is. At any rate I would look at the valves every 5k myself.

My bike was having a problem like that two, but I would say that #1 was cold and the rest were the right temp. Turned out when I did the carb rebuild a piece of brass got into one of the jets. Haven't had a problem like that sence then.

[the chef]

Valve clearance shouldn't be put off for too long, and I would say that it's time you check your clearances. The clymer manual for my GS1100 said check them every 600 miles, that is insane or wrong, I don't know wich it is. At any rate I would look at the valves every 5k myself.

My bike was having a problem like that two, but I would say that #1 was cold and the rest were the right temp. Turned out when I did the carb rebuild a piece of brass got into one of the jets. Haven't had a problem like that sence then.

this bike sat out in the yard uncovered for a year all i had yo do was charge the battery and she cranked right up, so there may be some varnish buildup in that carb, i hate to rebuild a carb i have 4 of them dissasembled in a box already (got them that way) but i will check into a valve adjustment rightaway first thanks the chef

[quakeholio]

You probably wouldn't have to rebuild the carbs, just give them a good cleaning. Good luck on it all though.

By the way, what type of valves do the GL's have, I know the 1200 is hydrolic, but are the 1000 and 1100 the shim underbucket, or a setscrew?

[Whiskerfish]

Valves are setscrew adjustment type. Very easy to do.
WF

[quakeholio]

Cool, the DOHC honda's of the same era as the 1100 use shims. I don't like messing with them so I let a shop do them for me.

[octane]

Hi Quake

Here you go:

GL1000 valve adjustment:



Octane

[quakeholio]

This pic is taunting me on how much work has to be done to get at the valves for my GS1100. Oh well, the next bike I get will not have any such things or problems. Hello GS1200 (at least I hope).

[Whiskerfish]

Yea on the Wing it is about as easy as they come. Some bikes I have wrenched on you have to be part contortionist to get to the valves.