04-22-2021, 02:38 AM
(04-22-2021, 02:26 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Well the pic on the swingarm for one and YouTube vids of course. If you pull down it takes out slack along the upper run and if you push up it takes out slack of the upper run. Seems to me, you'd only need to take the slack out once by pushing up, but I'm old and sometimes what we learned 60 years ago isn't necessarily what is thought of as proper procedure today. Just trying to learn.
I've seen Yamaha owner's manuals that called for a measurement where you pulled down and then measured up. I assumed Honda's were the same and used that strategy on Jennifer's first CBR500R. The chain didn't even last 10K miles. It was *way* too tight when measured that way. I'm pretty sure Honda's are a push-up only measurement. That's what I've been doing.