2006 Honda Aero 750 Valve Adjustment Tutorial
2006 Honda Aero 750 Valve Adjustment Tutorial
Aero 750 Valve Adjustment Intro
This tutorial is created to help others with their valve adjustment. I would first suggest that you do not do this. Shadow 750 valve adjustment just sucks. Plain and simple, this job sucks unless really enjoy working on motorcycles. I do not like working on them, however, there’s nothing much better than riding them. I don’t enjoy paying a mechanic the rates that they are asking for either. That leaves me with a wrench in my hand, a shop manual, and a head full of hopeful dreams that this will work out ok.
Please do not try this from my reference alone. Get the Honda shop manual for the Aero 750. I simply posting this as a supplement to fill in some of the vague instructions that are there.
The recommended intervals for the valve adjustment are crazy. I think it’s every 4,000 miles, I will check and fix this post when I find out. I paid for the first one at 600 miles and vowed to never pay that type of robbery again. Imagine buying a car and they tell you to come in and spend well over $400 on maintenance after 600 miles!
You will not get the full appreciation of how badly designed the Honda Shadow 750 is until you actually do this job. It is quite possibly the most difficult engine I have ever worked on. It took me over 2 hours to figure out how to slide the valve covers out of the motorcycle! The Aero 750 is an enjoyable bike to ride, but the maintenance is ridiculous.
I can’t help but being sarcastic throughout this, but I will try to be informative.
As a forewarning, keep track of every single bolt carefully. Most are special one-off bolts that you must order through Honda. Lose or break one and you’re going to be waiting a long time for the bolt to arrive.
