Great work, but you’ve just confirmed to me that I’ll be taking my ‘09 to the shop for this service. It’s way beyond my abilities…

Excellent video, thanks for making it

It’s hard to weld that rusty junk so even more reason to put a grinder to it when you’re done I hope your grind before you weld it

As an 80 percent’er, taking the headers off for cleaning would be item number 999999 for me. :-)

This was very helpful..

1:53 thanks for the rivnut idea, i didn't know what I was going to do

Have you done a throttle body sync on your 1400? Looking to do mine. Thanks

Hey Gary, does the rear pan go all the way under the roll bar mount?

Hot cams I meant.

im mentally preparing myself to do this soon, i did my versys 650 forever ago and this is just 2 more cylinders to work on

also to download pdf manual ;D mototh.com/files/kawasaki/1400GTR/Kawasaki-1400GTR-Service-Manual.pdf

thx for the video very usefully. because this : kzbin.info/www/bejne/iomkgoSkl6tqha8

Good video. Was this the first valve adjustment at 17000 miles.

Looks good man. Good info on the leaking door mine does the same thing

Thanks a lot for infos about timing chain, it was great to see under the valve cover! I need to change timing chain and tensioner but I m not sure that I can do or not. Is that easy to see marks on gears for correct timing? And is there any special work on intake cam with varieble timing system gear? Thank you very much in advance

Update?

Just got myself a 1400 GTR, I like to do all maintenance on my motorbikes. Thank you for your time & efforts on explaining the valve check process very useful for us DIYers.

Yeah you just totally convinced me to get the FJR instead.

Good vid, all I can add is get a good tongue wrench

Further to my comment below, my 09 Concours developed an oil leak at about 30,000km. It was out of warrant by then so I fixed it myself. The leak was coming from the front side of the rocker cover and it seeped down onto the exhaust creating a burning smell and even a bit of smoke at times. The leak was in the centre and didn't appear to be the exhaust sensor. I managed to replace the gasket myself and used some RTV along the front and after a while it leaked again which really annoyed me! This time I'll do both to cover my bases. Taking on this job isn't for the faint hearted. Although you say getting to the rocker cover isn't that hard just time consuming, my view is - it is both time consuming and reasonably difficult due to the numerous pipes and wires and tight space. Still - as you say, it probably saves me $1000 - $1500, so its worth the effort I guess. I'm currently half way through the job. Here's hoping the valve clearances are OK - I don't want to have to mess around removing the cams as well!

While I'm used to winding a car engine over manually using the front pulley crankshaft nut to get it to TDC, I wasn't sure how to do it on a bike. From what you say, the nut on the timing shaft is the equivalent so that's good to know.

Seven months now I have been waiting for the next part in this subject. The engine is getting some rust due to missing valve cover. Please proceed...

I see nobody has commented, I’d just like to say a big thank you to people like yourself who go out of their way to help make motorcycle maintenance easier for the DIY mechanic. As yet I do not own a Concours but I am looking into the possibility of buying a used one.

Thanks for taking the time to post..

No problem, it's not much but was hoping someone would find it useful.

Excellent video Gary. I have my 08 concours disassembled almost to the point where you have yours here; and then coincidentally and conveniently, I found your two vids on the subject. You included a few tips in the vid that I found really helpful. Thank you for sharing.