Valve Adjustment Help

[Fe Man]

I have an 06 Tiger w/19K miles and it needs a valve adjustment! I would take it to the local dealer but I just lost my job and can't spend the money.

I need advice and a valve shim tool and advice; can anyone offer some help?

[Bixxer Bob]

Without wishing to sound unhelpful,  use the search facility,  there's loads of info on here already.

[Fe Man]

Let me rephrase:

Anyone have a valve tool I can borrow?

[EvilBetty]

http://tigertriple.com/forum/index.php/msg,34259

[zombie]

P.M. sent

[blacktiger]

Let me rephrase:

Anyone have a valve tool I can borrow?

You don't need a valve tool. You can just get the shims out by removing all the cam bearing caps and lifting the cams slightly. This doesn't disturb the cam chain or mess up the cam timing. All you're doing is raising the cam enough to extrct the shim which, on my '02, is on top of the bucket................I know the '06 had certain differences so it could be different on the '06.

[Fe Man]

so its got 19K miles and I need to make a trip from Atlanta to Nashville and back, probably a little over 500 miles. The tiger seems to be running great it's a bit hard to start sometimes during hot weather...
I hear no strange noises but I'm new to the whole Triumph thing, maybe I wouldn't recognize valve noise.

What should I do; ride the Tiger or my wife's KLR? (no KLR cracks please)

[Mustang]

ride the tiger
, I seriously doubt the valves are out of adjustment  :D