{"id":84011,"date":"2007-04-04T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84011"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:08","slug":"cam-lift-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20070404\/everyday-events\/cam-lift-story","title":{"rendered":"Cam lift story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1905721078\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_47475179_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_47475179_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It&#8217;s a Kawasaki! A Z1000 Mk2!<br \/>\nAir-cooled two-valve\u2014it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve seen one of these! \u2606<br \/>\nThe transmission won&#8217;t engage, so let me take a look\u2026<br \/>\nTransmissions don&#8217;t break that easily, so let me check it out.<br \/>\nAh, there it is\u2014the return spring is broken!<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the culprit! While I&#8217;m at it, they also asked me to check the valve clearance, so let me see\u2026<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a Yoshimura ST-2 in there, and the cam head has taken on quite a harsh color.<br \/>\nLet me check\u2026 The intake side is completely shot! And there&#8217;s even 0 mm valve clearance! Yikes!<br \/>\nWith air-cooled bikes, you really want to check the valve clearance regularly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;It&#8217;s a Kawasaki! A Z1000 Mk2! Air-cooled two-valve\u2014it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve seen one of these! \u2606 The transmission won&#8217;t engage, so let me take a look\u2026 Transmissions don&#8217;t break that easily, so let me check it out. Ah, there it is\u2014the return spring is broken! That&#8217;s the culprit! While I&#8217;m at it, they also asked me to check the valve clearance, so let me see\u2026 There&#8217;s a Yoshimura ST-2 in there, and the cam head has taken on quite a harsh color. Let me check\u2026 The intake side is completely shot! And there&#8217;s even 0 mm valve clearance! Yikes! With air-cooled bikes, you really want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-84011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}