Check valves
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:44 am
I have bought a pair of new check valves off the UK Ebay seller. I have run my bike with them for the last 3000 miles so far. I have experienced excessive wear in the little end on the side I fitted the check valves to. However, prior to fitting the valves, I was constantly getting bubbles in air lines on that side, after fitting the new valves these have now gone.
Maybe the wear was caused by the bubbles in the line, maybe by the new check valves required too high an opening pressure or maybe I shouldn't have been so mean and bought four instead of the two for my T500.
Anyway, I have bought new little end bearing for that cylinder and time will tell.
My point is that there seems to be a fair bit of bad mouthing about these new check valves without any backup evidence of their quality. They clearly spent time and money getting these valves, in their opinion, to correct spec. for sale.
I've done 3000 miles with a possible self induced problem, but in my opinion it was a previous fault. Has anyone else bought them and what are/were their experiences.
Last time I checked they had sold 77 sets in the last 12 months so how about some feed back?
Maybe the wear was caused by the bubbles in the line, maybe by the new check valves required too high an opening pressure or maybe I shouldn't have been so mean and bought four instead of the two for my T500.
Anyway, I have bought new little end bearing for that cylinder and time will tell.
My point is that there seems to be a fair bit of bad mouthing about these new check valves without any backup evidence of their quality. They clearly spent time and money getting these valves, in their opinion, to correct spec. for sale.
I've done 3000 miles with a possible self induced problem, but in my opinion it was a previous fault. Has anyone else bought them and what are/were their experiences.
Last time I checked they had sold 77 sets in the last 12 months so how about some feed back?