OK, how about someone anywhere in the country who can do head work (valve stems and gas flowing) ?
There must be folk on here who do this stuff properly ?

Can anyone recommend someone nearish to the West Midlands?

Thanks, it's good to know that it can be done if you're careful. Can anyone recommend somebody to do the head work, preferably not too far from North Birmingham. I need the valve tips skimmed and was thinking about some porting to improve gas flow, although not sure whether it's worth it if everythi...

Thanks for that.
So it's a bit of a gamble then but not out of the question !

1981 Z1000J I will shortly need to get my valves stems skimmed to enable me to get adequate clearance as a couple are on the smallest shims already and the others are getting there. Back in the day I would strip this engine and remove barrels etc without much fuss, but I'm wondering whether I would ...

Bump !
Last chance as this is going on carandclassic tomorrow.

Before I put this out to the wider world, the very least I would take from a fellow enthusiast would be £4500

Hi all,
Not a Z but a 2-stroke triple is surely a worthy addition to any garage
For more info and photos, I've advertised it here

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/kawasak ... 11960.html

Looking for £4950ono

Rick

Can you not get the fuel tap fully serviced ? Especially if only one outlet is blocked ? There's a guy on the triples forum who refurbishes things like this. I could send you his details if interested ? There may well be someone on here who does this too, but you might need to ask in the Technical s...

That's worth remembering.
At Silverstone a bid of £10k on a bike will end up costing you £11.5k

Great looking paella

Smallest standard shim available is 2.00mm
If you find a source of good quality smaller ones then I’d be interested.

Anyway rant over .... I will buy 2.15mm shims which should give me top tolerance 0.15, prefer it to rattle a bit than all the clearances disappear on start up Thanks for the help Unless I've misread, don't you need a 2.00mm shim to give you the correct clearance? 2.15 will leave you with nothing if...

It was also a common practice to run a colder grade plug in the middle 2 x cylinders on older air cooled fours back in the day, as the middle ones will naturally tend to run a bit hotter. Am I correct is saying that some of the old air cooled fours had larger main jets in the middle carbs than the ...

Is that all on standard valves and springs etc?