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 Adjusting your ATV valves is important in maintaining peak performance and reliability. Though adjusting your valves is not difficult, is does require some patience and accuracy. On a single cylinder engine you have one set of intake valves and one set of exhaust valves. This will make for easy adjusting. When you’re adjusting a twin cylinder engine, there are two sets of exhaust and intake valves. The adjusting will be the same, just work on one cylinder at a time.


Before you start I recommend cleaning your ATV. Where we are going dirt is not allowed! Make sure you have a manual or know what your settings are. Take off your seat and remove any plastic needed to reach your valve covers. Once you reach your valve covers you will have to know which cover is your exhaust and intake. The easiest way of knowing the difference is that the exhaust valves will be located close to your exhaust pipe. Hints: The name exhaust. The intake valves will be located close to the carburetor or fuel injector. Again, hint the name intake because the motor must intake gas to run. Setting your valves sets the proper length of time to be open and closed while running.

The big question out there is if synthetic motor oil is better than standard motor oil. Well the answer is yes it is. There are a couple of simple reasons. One is that synthetic oil protects your engine better at lower temperatures and at higher temperatures than standard oil. This is a big plus to your engine when you go to start it up in very cold weather conditions. Standard motor oil tends to thicken at cold temperatures making it hard for the pump to do its job, where synthetic oil is still thin and easily pumped through the motor. A lot of damage to your engine can be caused during the start up if your oil pressure is to low. On the other side you have heat. Synthetic oil is designed to protect your oil from thermal breakdown due to high temperatures. Standard oil protects your engine at normal operating ranges. However,when standard motor oil is introduced to high temperatures it tends to break down the structure of the oil and creates sludge.