Chain slack for Gen 6

Yeah, no argument from me on that score, jokes on me though, I paid good money for his screw up!

 

I have not adjusted my own chain yet, but my inabilities aside: That question must be universal because it was the very first thing that clobbered my mind when I bought the bike and was testing the chain movement. In the dead middle of the chain I would presume that tension up = tension down. Thus, adjusting the chain so that pushing it down just over one-half of an inch would mean the upward movement would match this, and overall movement would be just over an inch, matching the recommendations here.

 

I'm sorry and I don't mean to offend, but what sympathy I had for you in this is gone. You keep going back to this fuckwad turdish mechanic. I have to ask why?

I used to buy nothing but Sony electronics for my home, Then had some difficulty with them on a computer purchase for my son. Now there is not a Sony product in my house. I used to get my truck serviced at the dealership where I bought it. There had been a couple instances of going back a few time to correct what should be a simple matter for a mechanic. But that and some minor damage resulted in me finding another shop for repairs and service to the truck.

I don't want some idiot who seems to think he knows better than the engineers who design these bikes and their parts, or someone who bastardizes what should be proper parts on my truck, my lawn mower, my router or my bike. But hey! Its you bike and your money. A mechanic who claims a chain stretches for gawd sake, then adds an improper link to a proper chain and takes a grinder to it to make it fit should be disemboweled. What does he race? Piggies on a mud track?

 

Randy, honestly, if you keep mincing words, if you keep dancing around the issue to be as polite as possible, if you keep standing on ceremony and being so darn formal, no one here is ever going to understand a thing that you are trying to say. Please stop holding back. For once in your (extra) long life, just throw caution to the wind and tell us your real feelings, I beg of you.

 

I respect your opinion!!!!!

 

going to a mechanic to adjust chain slack? :doh:

are you fookin' kidding me? do you take your bike in to get the tires inflated as well? there's a reason Honda tossed in that adjuster spanner into the tool kit...

 

Which poster are you talking to, me? I bought the bike and had a mechanic refresh it, all fluids, charging system, bearings, chain, sprockets. The tension has not changed and I have not had the need to adjust it. I did buy a toolkit and am prepared for when that one fateful day, the day I actually have to adjust something, comes. But I only ride a couple thousand miles per year, and adjustments are going to typically fall with the fluid changes and such. So it could be that I never touch the bike, which would be just fine with me.

I reject your notion that the spanner is for inflating the tires. That's ridiculous.

 

wasn' t talking to you. also, the schrader can be depressed with end of the spanner

 

Randy, I hear you and to some degree I agree, but,,,,, the guy fitted the chain in the first place, way back in September, it was down to him to put it right, which he did, by getting the right part, when I saw what he was doing I basically tore him a new ahole and he did the job correctly. Naturally I went to other places where the bike has been serviced before and they told me to tell him to put it right they would not touch the bike!
He has lost me as a customer and a friend, perhaps he will learn from his mistake, I know I have!

 

Ya Randy, don't hold back-HOW DO YOU really feel-just be nice!

 

I was just kdding then. But I can honestly say now, your opinion means a lot to me. I feel so much ricber today.

Here. Have a fucking cookie.

 

OK, so back to the topic. What is The correct procedure for checking the chain slack on a 6th gen? The chain will travel about a half inch when you push it down but will travel over an inch when pushed up, which also results in it's knocking into the plastic chain guard so there is no real way of telling how far up it is really traveling. So how/where do we measure the chain's up and down movement to determine the slack and adjust as needed? I have seen a lot of different methods but no real consensus.

 

The service manual is pretty good for this stuff... Put the bike on it's center stand with trans in neutral. Measure total play (down + up) in the center of the span from the front to the rear sprocket. If you measured .5" down and 1" up then the total is 1.5". The play should be between 1.0 and 1.375". Yours is a bit too loose, but most go to the loose side of this range so you likely don't need to tighten it up much. Move the chain around and check in several places. This adjustment is really pretty easy...
I hope this helps.
Mark

 

The measurement pushing up is an inch but that is because it is stopped by the plastic chain guard. It would probably measure a bit more if the guard was not there. If I tighten it more I would decrease the downside slack and have most of the measurement come from pushing up. Seems like the goal is then to have most of the 1.3" coming from the pushing up measurement. Is this correct? Note the 2 conflicting illustrations from the Honda vtec owner's and service manuals. One shows measure up only, the other measures up and down.

 

No... You are interested in total slack. The balance of up to down is not important. (As an example - If you were to put the bike in gear and rotate the rear tire (while the bike is up on the center stand) the slack would move around from the "down side" to the "up side" - depending on the rotation direction. But you can look at this if you want to see how loose the chain really is.)
If you pull the chain down all the way as the starting point then measure from that point up all the way you may get more logical results...

 

shut up sow...

 

I've been wondering something. When we grew up, you checked your slack when sitting on the bike. Honda says centerstand?