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Anyone had the chance to replace rocker arm assembly or at least an adjustment tappet? Seems easy enough - I need to pull one to investigate a stripped tappet screw. Thoughts, suggestions? Anyone have an extra tappet screw laying around? Update - 02/15/09 Very easy to do, just remove lower carrier a...

meromorph - if you don't pass it along, I'll return the postage to get manual for the 1100... previous owner misplaced it.

I have never done a compression test with wide open throttle - never seen it as part of the procedure, I'll give it a try when I get back to the bike...

Thanks for the input.

Just picked up a 1999 Roadster (non-ABS), fairly clean bike with 69,XXX on the clock. Initial start ups have been pretty smoky, the gray/white kind that hangs around. Started to clean and go through stuff and thought "what the heck, do a compression test." Got bike up to what appear to be ...