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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Blown headgasket? Reply #15 - 07/17/13 at 12:34:10 Id fix the oil leak & leave it alone,
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Re: Blown headgasket?
Reply #16 - 07/17/13 at 12:54:44

swedishbiker wrote on 07/17/13 at 12:25:42:

Dave wrote on 07/17/13 at 11:59:23:

swedishbiker wrote on 07/17/13 at 09:51:37:

Do you open the head bolt a little first and then torque or torque without that?

The proper way to torque the head is labor intensive, and usuallly occurs when the head plug leak is fixed. Two of the head studs are not accessible with the head cover attached, and it takes a lot of work to get the head cover off, cleaned up, resealed and bolted back on.

The cylinder nuts get stuck with the heat cycles and washing and drying and corroding and they can only be torqued properly if you take them off, clean them and apply new anti-sieze....then put them back on and torque them.

I'm use to loosen before redraw. So for me it makes sens to loosen them up first. Have read posts of broken bolts

here.

The problem with our head bolts....is they are studs with nuts and 3 of them are out in the environment and they corrode. They get incredibly stuck together and getting any kind of accurate torque reading from them is not likely if they are not cleaned and lubed. (It might be better to just leave them alone). When I took the nuts off my bike I could feel the studs twisting when I pulled on the wrench....then they snapped loose as the corrosion let go. The previous owner had always stored the bike indoors and it only had 1,200 miles on it when I took the head off.....I can't imagine how stuck they would be on an older and more used bike.

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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Blown headgasket? Reply #17 - 07/17/13 at 13:29:07 The nut should come of easy, if not heat it. The studs may may be harder. But I have not work with this engine yet. Have done few VW air cooled engines, similary
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Re: Blown headgasket?
Reply #18 - 07/17/13 at 13:39:41

swedishbiker wrote on 07/17/13 at 13:29:07:

The nut should come of easy, if not heat it. The studs may may be harder. But I have not work with this engine yet.
Have done few VW air cooled engines, similary

The broken bolts on these engines are usually the exhaust header bolts, which should be snug....but not really tight. And these bolts should also receive anti-sieze when they are installed.

The other prolblem area is the head cover bolts that people tend to overtighten and strip the threads out of the head or cylinder. These bolts are only 6mm and require a low torque.

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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Blown headgasket? Reply #19 - 07/18/13 at 08:43:22 Is this cam chain noise?
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Re: Blown headgasket?
Reply #20 - 07/19/13 at 08:24:08

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Is this cam chain noise?

I was hoping that someone with better hearing than mine would chime in, but since no one did. . . I don't hear anything in that clip that I'd be concerned about - sounds normal to me.

Cam chain is on the other side BTW.

If you are close to 10,00 miles - 16,000KM - You might want to take a look at the adjuster though.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Blown headgasket? Reply #21 - 07/19/13 at 08:47:31 now would be a great time to see how its doing,,
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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	Re: Blown headgasket? Reply #22 - 07/19/13 at 10:40:12 Well, the noise is louder then what it is on the movie. I got the gasket today so I will remove the cover tomorrow and have a look.
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swedishbiker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 119 Växjö Sweden Gender:	solved Reply #23 - 07/20/13 at 05:41:47 Done and it sounds as a new one. Thanks to verslagen1 for it. To do, sew a cover for driver seat, put on a new drive belt. And fix the oil leak from cam cover.
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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: Blown headgasket? Reply #24 - 08/15/13 at 19:28:15 swedishbiker wrote on 07/18/13 at 08:43:22: Is this cam chain noise? If that's idle on a warmed-up engine, then it sounds a little fast to me....
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