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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: MikeP996 on October 20, 2025, 04:53:24 AM
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Or, at least it seems so to me. A few days ago I noticed the right-side cylinder was a bit more "clattery" than the left side.
The bike was serviced by a shop last year (previous owner) but I don't know what they actually did and I've run it pretty hard since I bought it a couple of months ago - regularly running it to the red line to see what the bike can really do as opposed to riding in a "gentlemanly" manner as many internet sites seem to catagorize the bike (incorrectly, IMO). I like to let my internal hooligan out occasionally and I find the bike can do that quite well! OR, it can trundle along very comfortably as an "old guy's motorcycle. ;)
Anyway, I'll check/adjust the valves and hope I don't find a broken rocker arm bridge like one of the influencer sites did on their V7 850 some months ago!!!
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Pop the covers and have at it.
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Walked to the garage to do the valve adjustment. Our garage (actually a parking slot in an apartment building underground garage is about 3/4 mile from our house. So I have to carry whatever I need to do maintenance back/forth. SO...I arrived at the garage, set my (HEAVY) tool backpack down and my folding stool and started work. Pulled the right side valve cover and then discovered that I did not have the correct spark plug socket!!! So put the valve cover back on, loaded up my stuff and walked home! :( Oh well, at least I found that the right side rocker arm bridge was perfectly OK! So the valve adjustment is delayed until I get the correct socket!! :(
The Guzzi is the only bike I own that takes the smaller hex sparkplugs. It didn't occur to me that it might be different than the others. Well, you know what they say about "ASSumptions!" ;)
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Valves all had excessive clearance with the right side more than the left. Since, per receipt, a service was done by a shop at 6200 miles (it had 6800 when I bought it from the previous owner), it makes me wonder about the shop! Oh well, just verifies the old saying - "If you want something done right, do it yourself!"
Much quieter now with valves at spec clearance! :)
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Service to many is change oil, nothing done on what you can't see.
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Pulled the right side valve cover and then discovered that I did not have the correct spark plug socket!!! So put the valve cover back on, loaded up my stuff and walked home! The Guzzi is the only bike I own that takes the smaller hex sparkplugs.
These days I don't even walk the trash dumpster down to the street on collection day, I hook the can to to an old atv to do the 700' round trip twice. Also, my Travel is my only ice with small spark plugs too. And, I plan on doing the valve clearance check on that in the next month or so, it will be my first experience with popping off the valve covers on that bike. I don't anticipate any surprises. Good luck with yours!
10/24/25 Update: I did my Travel today, no surprises, left intake valve was tight, the others were to spec.
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I adjusted the valves a few days ago on my new '26 V7. I checked the manual to see what was recommended. .04 and .06. MY older V73 was .06 and .08. Guys here always said do 4 & 6, did the factory listen to them? :wink: The right side exhaust was a tickle tight, 500 miles.
kk