1997 Honda XR250r Valve Adjustment Job

the tools are going to need to use for this valve job on this 97x are 250 you're going to need 17 millimeter socket 10 millimeter socket 12 millimeter socket 5000 shim or feeler gauge 4000 spiller gage Tilton 10 millimeter wrench 12 millimeter wrench I use the fifteen sixteenths wrench to get the valve Bob covers off is that I don't have a big enough metric size wrench to use you need a flathead screwdriver six millimeter allen wrench and the ten millimeter allen wrench those are the tools you need to complete this job and it's pretty easy today we're doing a valve adjustment job on a 1997 Honda XR 250 this video can be used for probably just about every XR model there is I mean they're all under pretty much built on the same know considering the sizes and stuff but they're all basically the same I would imagine and first things you need to do is take your seat and tank off I'm not going to elaborate and how to do that I think if you're watching this video you're somewhat mechanically inclined to do that yourself you can also you need to loosen your decompression cable right there loosen these little nuts here that's fine it's loose then you need to come down here and use a 10 millimeter allen wrench to get this cover off a six millimeter allen wrench get that cover off then up the bolt inside here you need a 17 millimeter to turn your engine over to set your top dead center and you want to turn it counterclockwise to do that and then as you're turning it you want to look up inside here and you try to get a good view of it you can see that there's see that little T just to the right of that line on the flywheel well that's top dead center and you want that line to line up with this little notch on the side of your case right there you can see it that little notch right there you want that line top dead center line lined up with that and that will be your top dead center and once you got that completed you come up here and use a fifteen sixteenths wrench take off your valve covers you got four of them once you got them taken off you take your flat-head screwdriver and in the back here you got you need a ten millimeter wrench to take your jamb nut off loosen your jam nut in feed your exhaust up in front here you need your you need a 12 millimeter to loosen your jam nut so to clarify exhaust valve intake valve the intake valve takes four feeler gauge and the exhaust five thousandths feeler gauge and I can't really show you but it's not that hard you just take your flat-head screwdriver hold your adjustment screw and loosen up the jam nut you can see the jam nut right there you'll see it when you take your engine apart then once you got that loose you what I did was I cut my feeler gauge to fit just enough in there to where I'm not hitting no my throttle cables or anything and I bent it at a 90 degree angle and see that to get underneath which I get a good picture of it to get underneath your valve adjustment screw and once you get it under you want to you don't want the valve adjustment screw to clamp down on the feeler gauge you want it snug enough to where you can pull the filler cage out without any major resistance sleeve your feeler gauge in there and once you feel the bolt kind of hit the filler gauge kind of move your filler gauge around see if it's loose then if it is and you think you're good hold your flat-head screwdriver and tighten and don't try not to make any movements with the adjustment screw hold it hold the screwdriver and tighten down the jam nut it's about a I think it's around 17 foot-pounds of torque or you know just still snug you don't want to break it or anything and just repeat that process on all four your valves I don't think I need to go through every one of them to show you I think ones enough then once you got that done put your engine gas tank and seat all back together and should be good to go that's it

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Keywords: valve, adjustment, xr250

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Length: 6min 19sec (379 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 04 2012