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Originally Posted by Douglass
The exhaust is fine, I would only remove it to get rid of the emission stuff. If I were to do it I would I would want to be able to put all the stock stuff back on if/when I sell it. What's your suggestion on checking the valve lash?
Megadan, thank you for the link to the hawk resource/maintenance guide. I didn't see it earlier, im going to go through the bike more after seeing the suggestions.
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Suggesting for checking the valve lash depends on if you have an OHC motor or OHV, but the basic principles apply. Set the engine to TDC on the compression stroke. Adjust the lash adjusters to the desired specs. You can find quite a few posts on this topic. The OHV motors like the hawk, you remove the valve cover to do so. On the OHC engines there are two hex head caps, one front, one rear, that you remove to gain access to the lash adjusters on the rocker arms. As far as the proper lash spec for the OHC engines, I do not know for certain. Hopefully an owner with one of those engines can chime in.
I still need to add more to my resource guides from the Hawk, but a lot of the setup and maintenance stuff is good to follow. Things like the fork oil level will obviously not apply, but the generic advice on setup works across all of the bikes and is worth taking the time to do.