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Mortation Full Member Offline Posts: 205	Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover OFF?? 03/07/09 at 12:41:01 I can't get this thing to turn for the life of me and the biggest screwdriver I have is just screwing up the cover. Is there a trick to this???
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Moofed Full Member Alliance Member Offline ...and the engine just gleams... Posts: 148 Bloomington, Indiana Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #1 - 03/07/09 at 13:32:08 Vise grips and a used brake pad.
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Reply #2 - 03/07/09 at 13:43:44

Moofed wrote on 03/07/09 at 13:32:08:

Vise grips and a used brake pad.

Too late. I got it off and not in a good way. Busted it. Took a chunk out of the middle. No damage to the engine case and it unscrewed after that. But now I have to pull the cover off and change the gasket because I saw a couple small pieces of metal fall inside Sad

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28653 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #3 - 03/07/09 at 14:29:08 Don'cha wish somebody would make one of those out of metal with an allen head in the middle.....Sheesh!.....
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Serowbot wrote on 03/07/09 at 14:29:08:

Don'cha wish somebody would make one of those out of metal with an allen head in the middle.....Sheesh!.....

They are plastic? I was thinking so when my magnetic grabber wasnt pulling the little pieces out of the hole. What a PITA. Now I have to pull the crankcase cpver off to make sure the little plastic parts dont end up someplace in the engine. ARGH! At least all the parts were only $20.

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #5 - 03/07/09 at 14:45:06 I don't know about yours, but mine's aluminum.
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Mortation Full Member Offline Posts: 205	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #6 - 03/07/09 at 14:54:25 verslagen1 wrote on 03/07/09 at 14:45:06: I don't know about yours, but mine's aluminum. I don't think mine was. Maybe. It broke awefully easy. Snapped a hole right in the middle from spinning a screw driver. And my little magnet didnt get the parts. Oh well
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Yonuh Adisi FSO Serious Thumper Offline Savage Jedi (Knight) Posts: 3622 Pilot Valley NV, aka Tatooine Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #7 - 03/07/09 at 16:04:20 Magnets don't work with aluminum anyway.
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Moofed Full Member Alliance Member Offline ...and the engine just gleams... Posts: 148 Bloomington, Indiana Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #8 - 03/07/09 at 16:10:50 Argh, sorry i was slow to reply. As it was I typed that on my cell phone waiting for the laundry to finish. Atleast the side cover isn't damaged. I dinged the threads on mine and only barely got it back on after careful cleaning and plenty of oil. Someone on here said it is some odd pipe thread too.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28884 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #9 - 03/07/09 at 17:42:51 Sorry, I can't sit here all day, got to polish the bike sometime. Next time post your querry, then have a beer. Do something else, have another and an answer should appear.
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Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O
Reply #10 - 03/07/09 at 19:37:13

I still wonder if there isn't an iron pipe plug that would work in there. I suppose that would crack the case instead, huh?

I haven't tried the old brake pad trick. I ground a one-inch spade bit to a slight curve that matched the groove on the plug and popped it right out. I carry the bit right along with my other tools now.

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Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O
Reply #11 - 03/07/09 at 21:35:21

I took a washer & sammiched it 'atween 2 others a bit smaller & ground the radius shorter in one area, to make it fit the groove. The threaded rod they are all mounted on is the handle. If I needed to pull it & all I had handy was a brake pad, tho, Id use it. You can spring for a "Spayshull Tewll" but I hate doing that.

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Educatedredneck Senior Member Alliance Member Offline Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. Posts: 458 Hampstead, Maryland Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #12 - 03/07/09 at 22:43:12 Hey! This is what I made to do the job. http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1232437043
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Savage_Amusement Serious Thumper Offline On this steel horse I ride. Posts: 1004 Omaha, NE Gender:	Re: Anyone get the Valve Timing Inspection Cover O Reply #13 - 03/07/09 at 23:34:55 My tool box has those stupid pieces that slide down in front of the drawers to keep them from falling open when you move it. That fit PERFECTLY into the groove and then I used a pair of pliers to twist it.
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Reply #14 - 03/08/09 at 00:11:46

Educatedredneck wrote on 03/07/09 at 22:43:12:

Hey! This is what I made to do the job. http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1232437043

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Reply #1 - Today at 08:10:32 & if it gets outta the slot its gonna make a very large scratch...Id shorten the blade down to about an inch & grind the edge to a radius ti fit into the bottom of the slot. But it looks like a Low Buck idea thatll do the job.

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