[mecscc]

My Haynes says at 6000 mile intervals, starting at 6000. The "Owner's Manual" says at 4000 and 8000 and then contradicts itself with a confusing "4/6000" and "8/12000" etc. page towards the back where the dealer is to stamp that the service was done.

Which is it?

Monte :???:

 

[sweatmachine]

My understanding is every 12,000 miles.

It's very easy to check though, and takes about an hour.

Pull the seat, tank, and valve cover and check with feeler gauges. The engine has to be cold though.

 

[whoa]

On 2007-01-02 10:52, mecscc wrote:
then contradicts itself with a confusing "4/6000" and "8/12000"

Don't different models have different schedules?

Service Interval Charts

 

[kliff]

My haynes says 12K, M.O.M. says 12K, I'm doing it at 12K

 

[mecscc]

Well, isn't this all confusing. The official Triumph UK maintenance chart that whoa has the link to says that the FIRST check/adjust is at 12000 miles. The maintenance chart that is available here on this site says 8000 miles for the first check/adjust.

12000 sounds fine to me.

Thanks for the imput.

Monte

[ This message was edited by: mecscc on 2007-01-02 12:52 ]

 

[RedBird]

Monte,

Originally, the manuals for the bonneville listed the valve clearance check/adjust maintenance as every 8000 miles or 2 years whichever comes first. Sometime in '04 or early '05, Triumph "increased" the mileage intervals (time intervals remained the same) for all the twins engine maintenance schedules. The valve maintenance is now at 12000 mile intervals or 2 years whichever comes first.

For those of you with the older Triumph service manuals, just mark out the miles and change the note so the Kms readings (in parenthesis) are now the mile readings and the scheduled maintenance chart will be up to date. :-D :-D

I haven't seen a Haynes manual; however, it should have been developed after the change was made and should have the later mileage intervals.

Larry

 

[mecscc]

Thanks, guys.

And, Larry, you are right about the Haynes. I misread it. It says 12000. Thanks for clearing up the change in the interval. Come to think of it they did the same thing on the Tbird once they found out that it could go a lot longer without a check.

12000 it is. I shouldn't hit that before late summer since I do most of my commuting and local riding on the Hawk.

Hope things are well down there in the state of my birth.

"Oklahoma, where the wind comes whistling o'er the plains! -- and the dust, and the bugs, and the snow, and the rain..................................." Seriously, for some weird reason we are having your kind of winter weather back here. Supposed to be in the low 50s, again, starting tomorrow for the next three days. Normally, the ground is covered with some white stuff by now. We had exactly one "snowfall" of less than one inch so far, back in mid November. If this be the result of "global warming" then bring it on!

Monte :-D

 

[Normandy]

Monte, I reached the 12000 mark this summer and had the bike in for the winter, seat and tank off and wrench in hand.
I could not make my brain rip into a perfectly running and sounding engine, disturbing a non-leaking gasket and looking for a problem that isn't there. When I hear a ticking sound, feel a vibration or some symptom takes place, THEN I will check for a problem. :-D

 

[kliff]

If you're NOT going to check the clearances, at least run a compression test, and record those numbers. That reference can help in determining the existance of tight valves in the future.
It may be anal, but I'll be recording a hot and cold compression test at 3K intervals up to the 12K ck/adj. Should be some interesting info.

On 2007-01-03 10:50, Normandy wrote:
Monte, I reached the 12000 mark this summer and had the bike in for the winter, seat and tank off and wrench in hand.
I could not make my brain rip into a perfectly running and sounding engine, disturbing a non-leaking gasket and looking for a problem that isn't there. When I hear a ticking sound, feel a vibration or some symptom takes place, THEN I will check for a problem. :-D

 

[RedBird]

Hey....we had almost two weeks in Nov/Dec without any bugs...but now they are back again...56 F today...55 F tomorrow with a slight chance of rain...60 F on Friday...gotta get out and get more bugs on my Parabellum. :-D

Larry