Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Andrewaust" data-source="post: 86458" data-attributes="member: 936">No them springs suppose to be in one piece, for such a well engineered bike they certainly went to sleep in the power valve department, especially with the reputation of the older RMX's breaking power valves, looks like a very half assed attempt to fix a problem that failed miserably.&nbsp;There is no need for the spring with the mod I done, one bonus with my mod, if the valve fails it will never hit the piston which can then sometimes damage the bore, bad thing is it now has a RM type power band that hits harder, so just have to be careful doing hill stuff, although the stuff I've done has been OK.&nbsp;I was lucky, when the valve went it did clip the piston which knocked the valve back into the slide and was only running slow when it went, so instantly stopped the engine. Even thought the piston wasn't badly damaged I replaced all the top end parts and checked the bore which thankfully was in great condition.&nbsp;Just wish Suzuki paid more attention to that fault, wouldn't be good if you were fare away from nowhere and the bike croaked it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrewaust, post: 86458, member: 936"] No them springs suppose to be in one piece, for such a well engineered bike they certainly went to sleep in the power valve department, especially with the reputation of the older RMX's breaking power valves, looks like a very half assed attempt to fix a problem that failed miserably. There is no need for the spring with the mod I done, one bonus with my mod, if the valve fails it will never hit the piston which can then sometimes damage the bore, bad thing is it now has a RM type power band that hits harder, so just have to be careful doing hill stuff, although the stuff I've done has been OK. I was lucky, when the valve went it did clip the piston which knocked the valve back into the slide and was only running slow when it went, so instantly stopped the engine. Even thought the piston wasn't badly damaged I replaced all the top end parts and checked the bore which thankfully was in great condition. Just wish Suzuki paid more attention to that fault, wouldn't be good if you were fare away from nowhere and the bike croaked it. [/QUOTE]

Verification