02-25-2024, 01:58 AM
It's not so much the inspection which is fairly straight forward, it's the adjustment which is difficult should any valve be out of spec. For one just the valve cover has to come off, for the other the cams have to come out and different size shims inserted to bring it back into spec using special tools.Also on I-4s there is not a lot of space under the back bone frame to work.
Then again, some people have natural mechanical aptitude and are handy at things like that, while others are not. My younger brother has always had a knack with mechanical things and can work on and fix anything, but he can barely draw stick figures and can't properly diagram a sentence. I'm terrible with tools, but am a fairly talented artist and have co-written a book, been published in 7 national and International magazines and was an associate editor for a magazine for a couple of decades (although it was mostly a figure head title as I didn't have to do any actual editing lol).
He had dark hair, dark eyes and is left-handed, I had blond hair, blue eyes and am right-handed (both gray now). We are completely different, but we both love riding motorcycles, and worked in the same motorcycle shop for years. He as a mechanic, and me as a parts/service manager. Different skill sets put to different uses on the same product.
Then again, some people have natural mechanical aptitude and are handy at things like that, while others are not. My younger brother has always had a knack with mechanical things and can work on and fix anything, but he can barely draw stick figures and can't properly diagram a sentence. I'm terrible with tools, but am a fairly talented artist and have co-written a book, been published in 7 national and International magazines and was an associate editor for a magazine for a couple of decades (although it was mostly a figure head title as I didn't have to do any actual editing lol).
He had dark hair, dark eyes and is left-handed, I had blond hair, blue eyes and am right-handed (both gray now). We are completely different, but we both love riding motorcycles, and worked in the same motorcycle shop for years. He as a mechanic, and me as a parts/service manager. Different skill sets put to different uses on the same product.