Hey nice video! Just the other day I installed the same tensioner in my 2023. I ended up acquiring the service manual, and if you wanted to add tension to the tensioner before you button everything back up all you have to do is pour oil into the cavity with the tensioner piece that goes up and down. Then you pump it it up and down to bleed the air out if it and it will eventually be unable to move.
I don´t recommend changing the stock cam chain tensionar with a metal one, because it will wear out or/and eventually brake and those small metal pieces will damage the engine. There are reports of Groms where that happen. The stock cam chain is fine and it´s made of rubber for a good reason, to not hurt the engine in case of wearing out.
Thanks for the video, ive got a bone stock grom with DHM/TST/K&N modified intake with a tune and amazon exhaust and im overwhelmed at how many mods can be done. Whats on my primary list of things is a yoshimura rs9-t exhaust, gear shift stabilizer, aftermarket headlight cover, tst chain adjusters and hopefully that will be it.
Consider taking one tooth off the front sprocket and adding a speed healer to that list at some point too. I’ll have a video of that out soon with my results
@0to60eventually_youtube definitely want to do the sprocket for sure in the future. Honestly my grom is the nicest thing I own and at the current moment I am saving up for a house and a car in the future. I got my grom with zero credit and $500 down through the honda first time buyer program. I still owe a little bit on it and when it's all said and done I will have payed almost 6 grand for the stock bike alone but it's given me a hell of a credit score and it can maintain the speed limit up any hill with my current setup and I'm 250lbs and carry around 30-40lbs on my daily commute. No S1 cam or anything. I do run royal purple 10w40 motorcycle oil with a k&n oil filter optimized for full synthetic oil. I can't seem to find much on if that's ok outside of the obvious mpg loss with a slightly thicker oil. Most people seem to not really care and I totally get that but I always want to care for what I own and give it the best chance for longevity. I didn't want to run stock oil given how much more stress I'm putting on the stock engine components and clutch.
what are these bikes at the 9:01 time stamp and 8:55 time stamp? great video by the way, its the ONLY one on the internet aside from that one YT short showing the insides for a few seconds.
its an ohvale not street legal track version of a grom people learn how to lean properly on small tracks with them hand built in italy they are like 10k
