As to sanding, 5 minutes per shim maximum, measure several times, you can always continue sanding, when too much comes off there is no turning back. I have sanded shims on my 07 and on my 2015. Understanding that they are case hardened so the carbide sand paper, however you will never get through the hardening EVER-well if you sanded for a hour or two maybe, but then the shim would be way off spec.One thing many misunderstand, the shim is a spacer, the bucket gets all the wear, a ordinary piece of steel would work as a shim, although eventually you would get cold flow {In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is
the tendency of a solid material to move slowly or deform permanently under the influence of persistent mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress that are still below the yield strength of the material. }
Several of us V650 owners have done this multiple times, also some V1000 owners, just not much in the way of V1000 posts.
Here is a recent one;
I just did the first valve check on my 2016 V1000 at ~17k miles. Many thanks to all who posted instructions and hints on the procedure. I was a bit surprised to find that 7 of the 8 exhaust valves were under spec and all the intakes were at the low end of spec. This is my first Kawi, but I...
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