2008 valve tdc

[Hodge]

I am about to do a valve check/adjust and have watched a couple of vids but....


I have seen the straw method. just stick it in the plug hole and  advice such as use the lug.  it does seem a bit heath robinson, when i,m actually measuring 1000ths of an inch in clearance but using a guesstimate to set TDC




Does anyone have any pics of this or is there a more scientific way

[David.]

2009 BMW R1200RT Valve clearances, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3lSfZWJ3s

Around 5 mins in to this video, it suggests there is a TDC mark.



http://www.r1200gs.info/howto/valve-adj.html