Thanks for watching guys, I hope this helps you out!

When you’ve made your adjustments of the tappets why not just hold them in place every time with an Allen wrench as you tighten the locknut. That way you will not risk the tappet tightening and losing your adjustment. You won’t have to do the adjustment twice!

French guy here. I have this ticking noise on my 1200 RT from 07. Got valve maintenance last November. Gonna pay a visit to my BMW dealer and tell him i am noooot franckly happy with his work. Thank you for this so well made vid.

You bring me back to my youth, where I set the valve lash on every oil change. I knew immediately if I was having cam issues and always had the right amount of valve lift (and thus the last available HP). Funny how important that last HP was, grin.

new spark plugs from dealer looking awesome, Thanks for great video!

@TheBMWGuy

6 ай бұрын

You bet!

I use your video for R1200c valves, engines are very similar.

Thanks for your time, and information on getting us more in tune of how to maintain our machines..

@TheBMWGuy

5 ай бұрын

You bet!

Always a good reminder of what good/bad valvetrain noise is. Thank you!

@TheBMWGuy

7 ай бұрын

You bet!

Thank you, looking at a 2005 1150 GS. Will watch more.

And this is a cold engine adjustment. Another tip is t pay attention to torque on those valve cover bolts. It seems a lot of people over torque them and then need to rethread the cylinder head. Those bolts are around 6 nm only.

Excellent video!

THX for another great upload!

@TheBMWGuy

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Excellent presentation

Thank you, very clear info.

@TheBMWGuy

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Maybe it was the same stealership that did the valves that changed the plugs. I’ve seen a few videos on this and going to do mine soon. The other vids I have watched, when one valve is adjusted it changes the others so it was a back n forth adjustment until all four valves had the correct settings. Also, a lot of folks leave the gauge in, that’s why when I ordered a feeler gauge set from Motor Works (here in UK) it comes with a set of 4 gauges, not two.

verry good grts danny from belgium i drive bmw r 1150 rt bwj 2003

lookout! she's gonna blow!

Great job educating thank you.

@TheBMWGuy

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I am going thru a bike I picked up - I am suspecting my intakes might be too tight (maybe). I am getting blowback into the throttle body - and I can see/feel it pulsing/ticking on the flap (can stop most of the noise by holding that side where the cable connects. I hope it has not been doing this for too long and wore out the TB!!!! I planned on doing a valve adjustment tomorrow (I have been doing it on my other BMW for years). Thanks for your videos!

Moral of this story is to check both sides... .& Never hamdle the bike / throttle with filthy hands on a customer's bike ..😮 or even your own . Treat evey job as if you own it .. thats how our workshop runs . Ride safe . 😊

(Cries in inline-four, shimmed, DOHC...) And a moment of silence please for the poor bastards who bought Ducatis.

You made a few errors when performing this task. You only partially addressed the problem. The rocker arm end play should have been adjusted. You should have adjusted the valve lash (as well as the rocker arm end play) on the right side. You should have used a torque wrench to tighten down the valve covers, and the throttle sync should have been adjusted.

@danielemurgia3098

Ай бұрын

si tante cose devono essere fatte diversamente usare guanti, occhiali, brugola e chiave insieme, dinamometrica, ma va bene anche cosi

Thanks for the video - great for a simple fix.. ;)

@TheBMWGuy

5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

Awesome

Great job.💪

@TheBMWGuy

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙌

Good job 👍

@TheBMWGuy

7 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Would check the right side too. Just because the left was 'fixed' doesn't mean the right was actually adjusted correctly. Might even be too tight...

Degreasing the valve cover seal prevents is from leaking. Always remove/clean it.

Very interesting. How can you tell you are a TDC? Do you have any videos showing how to repair the speedometer on a R-1200C? Great video. Thanks

This makes me really miss my Rockster.

It purrs like a kitten now 👍

3:32 NO WAY are those new plugs.if the dealer did charge for new plugs, that is a dishonest or incompetent dealership.

I always thought this was normal sound lol wow

Was mir bei BMW besonders gefällt, ist der simple Aufbau. Im Prinzip kann jeder der ein wenig Interesse zeigt daran schrauben. Kleine Fehler werden verzeihen. Bei Ducati sieht das schon ganz anders aus. Das hasse ich das Ventil einstellen. Dort ist das richtig Arbeit. Es kann den ganzen Tag dauern. allerdings braucht man bei den modernen auch gute Software.

Tambien esta o se revisa la holgura vertical de las levas en sus ejes..saludos....

Those bikes look very appealing for home mechanics.

@jawoo0326

24 күн бұрын

They definitely are! Easy and fun to work on, unless you have a clutch replacement, and have to completely disassemble the entire bike!

Surprised it would start with those valve clearances, some times it feels like you can have 0,2 intake and exhaust like 0.4 and it may have problems to start and having bad idle or high rpm power loss.

I haven't seen you putting the spark plugs back in.

wonder why they moved from easy screws adjustments to shim on newer models....

Which filler gauge did you use? 0.15 mm?

i hear that starter is poor. i just removed and lubed the starter on my r1150r and the noise at the start was gone.

They also had faulty push rods and cam chain tensioners... Soft tensioner- and rods made of aluminum with pressed chrome molly tips that tend to looses up from the rod. There are up grades for both...

@TheBMWGuy

7 ай бұрын

i did a video on this, check it out.

@dvdh4937

7 ай бұрын

Only the leftside tensioner, the right never causes problems. Some pushrods had problems, not every 1150 made these irritating pushrod noises

@Mike-jv4rz

7 ай бұрын

@@dvdh4937 Agreed - Just mine lol.... Thanks !

Hi there viewers! I need your help with this problem. I have a r1150r 2001 with approx 100K kilometers When running it revs and performs fine until 4500 rpm and then stalls, sometimes when I do full throotle in first gear it manages to surpass this stallment range and continues to accelerate with normal torque. Inmediatly after this, as long as the rpm's dont go below 4500 I'm able to shift to the next gears and continue accelerating to top speed. This can only be done with first gear due to its torque and rapid acceleration to surpass this gap, second gear and above don't manage to do it. In neutral it revs just fine. Anyone have had this same problem? Thank you in advance

Now do the right side.

@TheBMWGuy

7 ай бұрын

it was done, at the same time i was doing the left.

What could have possibly caused all of that corrosion on the plugs?

@davebarrowcliffe1289

6 ай бұрын

Washing them, then putting them away before the water has a chance to evaporate.

@AaaaandAction

6 ай бұрын

Water and years combined.

The plugs are old. Yet again, another example of a dealership conn!

They should have hydraulic valve adjustment. One less thing to do.