Subject: RE: Confession
Author: Rich Zink
Date: Jan 30, 2001, 10:19 AM
Post ID: 1705184889
Thanks,
Richard Zink
ITD Tech Services
510-271-5134
LOL, Bruce, I have all of the gaskets sitting waiting to pull the
cylinders and check the chrome on my Ambo. It has a visible leak (weep) in
the left cylinder head gasket but it has been ridable weather here in Ca
(yea I know rub it in!) so I have been hesitant to tear into it. My wife
went to the movie with a friend last Friday night so I got brave and decided
just to pull the rockers and re-torque the left cylinder for the time being.
So I get the torque specs and sequence from the manual and have at it. The
whole time I am wondering why this one top bolt is like a 26mm when the rest
of the nuts are 17mm. And why is it that the rest of the nuts were 3-5 ft
lbs loose and this big bolt is over torqued if anything. There is no 10 mm
hex hole on mine. So I must confess also that it went right by me ;-O.
But now I see the light,
Confession is good.
Rich
From: Bruce Giller [SMTP:bgil-@mitre.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:53 AM
To: loopframe
Subject: Confession
When I replaced all the gaskets on my Eldo, much to my
chagrin, I
discovered that the real cylinder head nut is under the big cover
bolt.
It sure looked like the big bolt was being torqued down in the
owners
manual. It wasn't until I read the blurb from Moto Int. that came
with
the gasket set: use a 10 mm hex wrench to remove the nut. "Huh?"
was
all I could say/think. Next was, "Damn, that's weird!".
So all this time I've been torquing down the cover nut to 30
ft lbs!
Bruce