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Mille
Bikes: ST4S
Posts: 364
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Hertfordshire.
Mood: Finally gotten over the 748R getting stolen thing. Actually, no i haven't !
Hi Nigel
I don't think the tolerances are tighter, an expert might know better than me. I think the girls on that shift in Bologna that day just shimmed it loose. Perhaps my dealer likes to shim them tighter than modern service spec's expect. They do race a lot themselves.
I don't understand why the modern engines can't be shimmed with a zero closing clearance like the good old days. Thats a large part of the benefit of a positive closing mechanism anyway.
09-Feb-2004, 09:54 
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