Head REtorque......motor builders???

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feeds@yuku.com (R7Chop) — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:53:14 GMT

thats good advise, I will do that,...thanx

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feeds@yuku.com (rakeNtrail) — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:25:07 GMT

R7, on assembly a little motor oil on the threads and between the nuts and washers really helps.
It reduces any friction so the studs don't "twist" and go snap.

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feeds@yuku.com (R7Chop) — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:12:02 GMT

the one I'm rebuilding now I'm gonna go slightly under the torq spec, to avoud breaking/overstretching...I think it'll be fine

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feeds@yuku.com (71CHOP) — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:44:16 GMT

"self induced paranoia? "

Probably!!!

I think everyone has one of those "did I tighten THAT bolt moments!!!?"

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feeds@yuku.com (rakeNtrail) — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:34:06 GMT

To each his own and sometimes they go back together just fine.
That said I still won't take that chance for an 80 dollar bill.
I've broken too many of them and had too many piss like a Harley
with them old studs.

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feeds@yuku.com (Roadkill Savior) — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:07:59 GMT

self induced paranoia?

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feeds@yuku.com (71CHOP) — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:15:52 GMT

yeah rat, I'm just gonna run it and see what happens......if it leaks again, it'll get torn down and new studs installed.

I see what you're sayin with the stretch.......it'l interesting to see how much it continues to stretch......hate to have one pop on the trip to the WHCM.

When I was doing the retorque, I remembered an article by "the car guys" about 'torque plus stretch' and I though they advocated loosening the bolts then retorqing to...

Re: Head REtorque......motor builders???

feeds@yuku.com (74rat) — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:02:21 GMT

I could be wrong......
but the way I see it when it comes to the stretch factor...the bolts would`nt become soft, and just keep stretching...maybe after years and years of being under torque, they may have stretched a tad.., but it seams as though, if you did a recent torque on um..they`d be just as tight as they should be..

if it does`nt seam to leak 71, I`d call it good and run er..

74rat

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feeds@yuku.com (Roadkill Savior) — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:56:11 GMT

make sure the rubber pucks are in good shape. There are 6 of them......If they leak they will make a mess.

Also make sure the rubber oil rings are under the cam towers..... there are 2 under each one. The 2 inner ones should have the restrictors also. Then there are the 2 rubber o-rings under the jugs in the back. Oh yea and the 2 oil o-rings between the cylinders and head. Those are the passage for oil to the top end.

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feeds@yuku.com (hwc13) — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:40:52 GMT

thankz for the links
my rider leaks like the Valdeez

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feeds@yuku.com (ToeCutter66) — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:18:51 GMT

I used a set on my motor, it is stock displacement. I have run them over 2 seasons, no leaks.

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feeds@yuku.com (rakeNtrail) — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:56:51 GMT

http://www.cbrzone.com/studs.html $79.95

http://www.dynoman.net/bikepages/sohc/studs.html $79.95

http://www.cyclexchange.net/Engine%20Parts%20Page.htm $84.00

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feeds@yuku.com (constriktor) — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:55:04 GMT

these guys.

heavy duty cylinder studs.

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feeds@yuku.com (hwc13) — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:26:09 GMT

what/where/who is this APE
we be needin some studs

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feeds@yuku.com (71CHOP) — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:50:06 GMT

no skin.....I'll check it now.

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feeds@yuku.com (Roadkill Savior) — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:20:53 GMT

I just rebuilt mine with the APE studs too, way better than those skinny pos stock ones. I snapped one of the old ones just torquing to 16 lbs.

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feeds@yuku.com (misterskin) — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:16:10 GMT

71chop, did u get my yookoo mail?

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feeds@yuku.com (ToeCutter66) — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:21:13 GMT

I rebuilt mine with heavy duty studs, I torqued them down to about 16 foot lbs.

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feeds@yuku.com (rakeNtrail) — Sun, 11 May 2008 06:26:38 GMT

Sometimes the old stock studs will just stretch and keep on stretching until they just go "snap"!

I find much better results on leaky head gaskets to replace the gaskets and install a new set of
studs from "APE".

Re: Head REtorque......motor builders???

feeds@yuku.com (71CHOP) — Sun, 11 May 2008 06:21:55 GMT

well, ok.....I might have made them about 1 ftlb. over spec.........those are close to the right specs......16 and 6.

It just concerned me because some of them made at least one complete turn more after the "stiction" broke free.........

Head REtorque......motor builders???

feeds@yuku.com (71CHOP) — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:10:11 GMT

so I thought I had to tear the head off to clean an oil passage, turns out not.......

anyway the motor only has about 2,500 miles on it since the ground up stock rebuild........I thought the head gasket was seeping a little, so I figured I'd just go ahead and retorque the nuts and bolts while I had the cover off.

I'm kinda thinkin what I should have done was loosen the nuts to break the hold on the washers, then retorque to spec.

what I did was use the...