Well, none of the shops in my area will work on the savage until Fall, so like a fool I've started wrecking it myself. The diagram of the cylinder head cover bolts was duly printed out and attached to cardboard as recommended (what a great idea, thanks). The 10mm bolts all came out but on the left hand side, the chart shows one more bolt but I have 2X 14mm bolts, one near the spark plug hole, one further back. Did I misread the chart? (Awaiting response before trying to remove the 14mm. ) idn't touch the 10mm on the right side with the philip heads indentation- hopefully that was the one I wasn't supposed to touch yet. Do I have to remove the front L65 with nut?
The right hand side crankcase cover came off with a little spillage of oil- didn't put the bucket in the right spot by (as agent Smart would say)- missed it by that much.
When cleaning up the oil I found a very thin @3mm thick metal pin that is broken off , maybee 1/2 inch long. Any thoughts what it is/where it might have come from. The bike is an '04 with 3000 miles. Thank you in advance..
OH, yeah, this is being done so I can get a header bolt machined out.