Chacked the valve clearness yesterday on my F650ST. all seemed ok. at .005 rear and .006 front, I aligned the marks on the two camshaft to get the free position on the cams from the sprocket marks. -they both do not line up horizontal at the same rotation> they are one tooth out! .er umm...

HI i am new to the forum and the Bmw biking community and already need advice on how to set the timing for my bike its a 1998 F650 twin spark plug engine , i have had to change the cylinder head on it because one of my exhaust bolts got stuck and snapped off inside the head so was wondering...

I'm trying to find out some info - for my Pegaso actually on what the spark timing is with the standard ECU - or even a remapped bike? This info would be many years old now bit does anyone know if it has ever been done? This would need to be for the 5 valve single spark (Funduro) Thanks.

Question for the techies... Recently, and for the first time, I checked and swapped out a couple of valve shims on my ST. I did the job by the book, locating the crankshaft notch by feeling with a screwdriver and locking the crankshaft in place with a TDC bolt (with the cam lobes outwards at...

Hi All, In a previous post I said I'd seviced my bike for the first time and it runs like a dog. Well I fixed that by putting the plug leads on the right way round :doh:. As it's apart, I am double checking everything. The timing went out when I put the camshafts back in (the 5th time !). I...

A mate of mine has a Tuareg with Rotax 562cc motor. He has removed the cam belt to renew it and then found he had not checked the pulley marks. His young lad was seen to be playing with the cam pulley, so now he needs to know if the pulley marks go together or away from each other or even...