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To seal or not to seal L/H CCC
04/10/07 at 15:57:28

About to button up the Left Hand (L/H) CrankCase Cover (CCC), from doing a magneto and pickup coil remove and replace. The Clymer's manual doesn't mention using any sealant on the gasket; but I'm considering wiping on a thin layer of RTV (heat resistant silicone sealant) on both sides of the gasket, and also sealing around the rubber grommett where the ignition and charging wires run in/out.

I know not to use anything that sets up hard, as the old gasket was hard enough to scrape off without fighting a hard sealer (the factory didn't appear to use any.

The amount of oil left in the side case after draining caught me by surprise, and made a pretty good mess when I pulled it! Oh well, that's what they make oil dry for... Lucky I had half a bag on hand. Wink

I'd really appreciate any experienced advice/opinions on this before I button it up.

TIA,
John

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Rockin_John Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Posts: 1562 +36° 10' , -95° 48' Gender:	Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC Reply #1 - 04/10/07 at 17:19:20 Oh, BTW... Here was the problem: Note the meter reading the connector to the ignition pickup coil at 1.619M ohm. Normal reading should be more like 200-240 ohms like this one from the salvage: Which is reading 213.2 ohms. Hope that's all it takes to fix the bike. I'm anxious to take it for a test ride!!! 8)
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Reelthing Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Fish or ride that is the question Posts: 5397 Houston,Tx Gender:	Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC Reply #2 - 04/10/07 at 18:22:39 you may have already applied some stick'um to the gasket - but I sure don't think I would -
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Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC
Reply #3 - 04/10/07 at 22:52:44

Reelthing wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:

you may have already applied some stick'um to the gasket - but I sure don't think I would -

Nope, nothing applied to it yet. I discovered my old supply of Loctite is dried out. So I can't continue re-assembly tonight anyways. The Loctite was the wrong type for the stator capscrews anyways. We used the stuff that was far too strong for light materials in Japanese motorcycles. Made for permanent assembly. I need to buy some of the weak stuff that you can get back apart later. So... I'm quickly reaching the point where I can do no more until the auto parts stores open tomorrow.

However, I do think I'll apply something around the rubber grommett that the wires go through. Maybe not the rest of the gasket, as it has a good clean surface and should be okay.

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Reelthing Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Fish or ride that is the question Posts: 5397 Houston,Tx Gender:	Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC Reply #4 - 04/11/07 at 00:04:15 need to use the blue loctite - man that red stuff takes a torch to get lose
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC Reply #5 - 04/11/07 at 06:47:38 No need for sticky stuff if there's a gasket. You may off-course put some around the rubber grommet, just to make sure.
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC Reply #6 - 04/11/07 at 07:38:33 The new Loctite sticks are great; a lot less mess.
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Max_Morley Serious Thumper Offline LT650 Luxury Touring & sidecar rig Posts: 1490 Moses Lake. WA Gender:	Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC Reply #7 - 04/11/07 at 09:05:11 And the new gel version is better yet as it allows just the needed drop. FYI there is a green version that you can put on after assembly that uses capillary action to go in the threads, handy when you have an oops. Max
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Re: To seal or not to seal L/H CCC
Reply #8 - 04/12/07 at 00:24:17

No real progress today on re-assembly. By the time I stopped at the auto parts store for thread lock, and shopped me a new inch/pound torque wrench, I only had a bit of time to actually work on the bike. I did pick up a dandy little roll-around work seat while crusing the tool stores.

My butt was getting real tired of that 5 gallon bucket and piece of foam rubber.

Then what little time I did have was taken up by having to remove the battery box and route wires. When I disassembled I pulled 'fishing' wires through with the old wires I pulled out; in hopes of pulling the new wires back through with the 'fish' wires. The white 'fish' wires can be seen in the picture above. It didn't work. The gap between the battery box and air box was too narrow to pull the molex connectors back through.

So... out comes the battery box. Now the wires are back in place, I can start re-assembly tomorrow (If I get the time). Takes me forever on a couple hour project because of constant interuptions, and breaks Wink

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