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Gort Ex Member	Re: Cylinder head covers Reply #15 - 07/29/09 at 20:42:45 Removing the covers gives the engine an old school look. Suzukis are easy to ID with their chrome head covers on, from a distance.
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Re: Cylinder head covers
Reply #16 - 07/30/09 at 05:13:04

verslagen1 wrote on 07/29/09 at 20:01:01:

Digger, the bolt we are talking about is to the left of #13, but it is the forward most bolt hole above #8. It is inserted from the underside of the head cover and is loose when the head cover is installed and remains that way untill the chrome head cover is in place.
This bolt only holds the chrome head cover in place.

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voldigicam Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 327	Re: Cylinder head covers Reply #17 - 07/30/09 at 15:55:37 I am going to pull the !@#$(% things off. All I want to do is check the #$#%* sparkplug to see how the mix is working. Who thought up the $%$*%& things, anyway!!!! I imagine real mochanics have priceless things to say about them, too. Just ranting.
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Skid Mark Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 1216 Calgary, Alberta Gender:	Re: Cylinder head covers Reply #18 - 07/30/09 at 17:00:13 Engineers had a good laugh when they designed these chrome covers
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Re: Cylinder head covers
Reply #19 - 07/30/09 at 18:45:22

... I'm an engineer...

Funny how you can take any item found in everyday life that is hard to use and kind of think that some engineer must have been frustrated as hell when he (or she, though you don't see many female engineers) designed the thing.

I'm guessing some engineer designed the engine, then some jerk-off industrial designer said he had to add a cover to make it look a certain way, so the engineer made it a pain in the ass.

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Skid Mark Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 1216 Calgary, Alberta Gender:	Re: Cylinder head covers Reply #20 - 07/30/09 at 20:18:37 I stand corrected! Darn Industrial Designer must have has a good laugh
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Re: Cylinder head covers
Reply #21 - 07/30/09 at 20:46:46

verslagen1 wrote on 07/29/09 at 20:01:01:

Digger, the bolt we are talking about is to the left of #13, but it is the forward most bolt hole above #8. It is inserted from the underside of the head cover and is loose when the head cover is installed and remains that way untill the chrome head cover is in place.
This bolt only holds the chrome head cover in place.

Ver,

We may be talking about different bolts. I'm talking about this one:

The bolt shown is a bolt that serves double-duty as a head cover bolt AND a decorative chrome head cover bolt. The FSM calls for it to be torqued the same as the rest of the numerous head cover bolts.

If you look closely, you can see that this bolt is situated right at the area where sealant is applied when replacing the head cover. You can clearly see that the bolt passes through a hole in the edge of the head cover.

Of the four bolts that hold on the two decorative chrome head covers, the bolt in question is the only one that actually serves as a head cover bolt.

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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: Cylinder head covers Reply #22 - 07/30/09 at 22:20:16 Nope, that's it. Terrible waste of thread.
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Digger Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Ya gotta be tough to ride singles! Posts: 1604 Colorado Springs, CO Gender:	Re: Cylinder head covers Reply #23 - 07/31/09 at 20:27:45 verslagen1 wrote on 07/30/09 at 22:20:16: Nope, that's it. Terrible waste of thread. Well, if you remove it altogether, you'll be missing one of your head cover bolts....and possibly be flirting with an oil leak.
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Re: Cylinder head covers
Reply #25 - 08/03/09 at 06:58:01

well, both chrome covers are off. BurnPgh graciously helped me remove my tank and rejet my carb, during which we removed the chrome head covers.

I'm inclined to say digger is right on this one. Burn and I noticed several subtle differences between his '95 and my '02, one of them is that his cylinder head is different from mine.

The cover will stay off for the time being, although it leaves with that bolt rattling around there... no way to get it out without cutting it apart... now way to easily get it out that is.

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Reply #26 - 08/03/09 at 20:07:37

spacepirates wrote on 08/03/09 at 06:58:01:

....The cover will stay off for the time being, although it leaves with that bolt rattling around there... no way to get it out without cutting it apart... now way to easily get it out that is.

Space,

Maybe you could find yourself a section of small diameter steel tube or pipe and cut it to the correct size to "replace" the decorative head cover.

It would look strange, but you'd be able to torque the nut down and perhaps prevent an oil leak in that area.

Just thinkin' out loud.

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Re: Cylinder head covers
Reply #27 - 08/03/09 at 20:56:50

Shoot, why not just cut the bolt off at the head with a dremel tool, and replace it with a shorter one with the nut on the bottom? That's what I'd do if I removed the whole cover.

I got in there to do a valve adjustment last weekend and decided not to remove the covers. The bolt does put some downforce on the (important) head cover through the decorative cover.

Instead I did the plug door mod, replacing the unimportant bolt with a rounded stub. But it doesn't seem like you'd be able to move the "door" much at all with the other bolt at its original torque. So I left it as a half-mod. The door will open after the front bolt is loosened a tad, and doesn't move at all with the bolt re-tightened.

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Re: Cylinder head covers
Reply #28 - 08/03/09 at 21:18:53

i don't have a dremel tool, and even if i did i think it would be wicked hard to cut off that bolt... it is maybe 3/4 of an inch into the fins.

I will try the steel tube idea... maybe a short section of 1/2 pipe with a washer and nut up top would do the trick.

now, the leak isn't bad of course, and you can really only tell because my bike is dirty as sin (i ride in the rain too much...), but it is there.

anyone know if the actual cylinder head has changed much between say a '95 and an '02? BurnPgh had his bike over here to help me with my carb, and his didn't have a spark plug access or another random hole drilled in it. could it be that in an older savage that bolt isn't needed to actually hold the head cover on?

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