I am a full believer in using Permatex gasket sealent for the nuts. If you get the header to frame clamps available at MG Cycle and MG Classics they hold the headers nice and tight too.
I think that if you want a decent wrench for the nuts you need to make one. A friend did that by cutting the pattern out of bar steel. Looks like hell but it works great. By the way...the old style nuts have a different tab pattern than the newer ones that come with the locking nut.
Regards...Ian
p.s. you are right...after looking at it it was a faciscious barb.
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Lamberts <ew-@unr.edu> To: Loopfram-@topica.com <Loopfram-@topica.com> Date: April 6, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: Re: separatist government
<< Mon cher Ian, Pourqois vous n'aimez pas les Quebecois, et pourqois vous ecrivez ici en Anglais? Vous pensez que vous mangez de la merde parce que vous vivez dans la belle province? Est-ce que vous ne voulez payer beaucoup de la TAX et parler seulement en Francais? Sacre bleu! Chalice! Tabernac! Je pense que vous etes un Cochon Anglais! Brian M '78 T3 '74 Eldo >> I do not speak french - but somehow this has got be about Quebec??
I do speak French, and this is more of a tongue in cheek barb on living in Quebec, where they force you to speak French and tax the hell out of you.
Some smileys would have helped.
But.
Speaking of Moto Guzzis, any big secrets on getting the exhaust header nut to stay on???