Like Dynoking said, confirm pushrod adjustment.

Personally I would pull both sets, put your fingers down on top of a set of lifters and rotate the rear tire until you feel one lifter going up while the other is going down (at the same time) the you’re on the base cycle of the other cylinder. Now move to the other cylinder and install/adjust pushrods, after you fallow the proper adjustment for your pushrod spin the rear tire until you see the pushrods move one up and one down at the same time. Now move back to the first cylinder (the one you had your fingers in) and install those pushrods.

 

It’s a 22 Low Rider S with the 117CI engine. I made sure I was on TDC before I started adjusting the pushrods but I might’ve messed it up somehow. I’ll have to redo that process and see if it helps.

 

TDC on the compression stroke?

 

Remember its lifters on rear cylinder rock; i.e. exhaust lifter at bottom of down stroke, intake lifter just starting to raise up. Then adjust the pushrods on the front cylinder. Let the lifters rest twenty minutes, check for easy rotation of the pushrods and no clearance. Rotate engine to obtain lifter rock on forward cylinder. Repeat adjustment on rear cylinder.
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I put the bike in 6th gear and rolled the rear wheel until the rear lifters were moving up and down simultaneously then adjusted the pushrods. Then I let them bleed down for around 25 minutes and was able to spin them freely. Then I rolled the rear wheel again and felt the other set of lifters moving up and down simultaneously and did the pushrod adjustment.

 

This is were you went wrong. Roll the rear wheel. Watch the lifters go up and on one cylinder BUT* you adjust the valves on THE OTHER CYLINDER.*.
*Not shouting only emphasizing the mistake and correct procedure. You'er going to go back and hit this right!

 

You adjusted the wrong cylinder, check my previous post. If the lifters are moving simultaneously then the other lifters are on the base circle and are in the correct position to be adjusted.

 

I am old school and want to hear the piston pushing air out the spark plug hole and I know the piston is at, or near TDC and I adjust the pushrods on that cylinder. Not saying anything against other ways of doing it, but that's the way I do it and it has never failed me.

 

yep...i also do it this way. i put a straw in the spark plug hole and watch it fly across the garage when that cylinder is on the compression stroke.

 

Easiest for me is just watch the intake pushrod close, then the next TDC for that cylinder is compression.