It's giving me delusions of adequacy

Oh yes, and I'm seeing Ruprecht with a hammer and chisel in his mitts

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What?!?




What?!?



You mean that 1 and 4 were actually correct?



Wow - that's nearly 40% right.



From my point of view, that's a result!!!



Dave

Update:

Bike put back together this afternoon. I learnt that you have to be fairly quick with gasket sealant

The shop didn't helicoil in the end; just drilled a larger hole and i've now got a suzuki bolt in there. No leaks, no wobbles and it remained firmly in situ after a quick 60 mile blat.

What did you use the sealant on?

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FFS.......NEVER, EVER use gasket shite on a Buell


Latest gaskets are laminated aluminium and should be fitted dry to clean surfaces

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92 MB
96 S2T
98 S1W
00 M2
01 X1
03 P3
10 CR

The sealant was used on the derby cover gasket and the large primary case gasket.

I missed the memo about not using sealant. No leaks, and I hope then that the most lasting damage will be replacement of the gaskets. If needed.

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92 MB
96 S2T
98 S1W
00 M2
01 X1
03 P3
10 CR

A friend of mine just stripped his drain plug thread by following the torque settings in the manual. I directed him to this thread. It didn't really help his predicament, but it cheered him up immensely

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Wise words from , well here is another one for you, as some of you know I purchased my XT from 1203 who is/was a member on here, and I have to say I love it.

Anyhow 10,000 miles has just come up and with it of course a service due, to which I have always done my own without any problems, and in this case is the more or less the other end of the country so I shit out there, and besides I don't trust main dealers, not even a little bit.

Basically I have been in engineering in one form or another for almost 50-years, anyhow back to the subject in hand, yesterday I went for a ride for 10/15mins to warm her up before I started to drain the fluids, placed the drain can underneath the swingarm drain plug and proceeded to undo the plug, I smelled a rat almost immediately it was tight to come out, all the way, which can only mean one thing the last tosser to do it up overtightened it and stretched the aluminium thread which meant on the way out the magnetic steel drain plug took some aluminium thread with it, the oil filter was also bloody tight so much so it distorted quite a bit before eventually leaving go and unscrewing, maybe due the "o"-ring not being lubed prior to fitting or just some ape again overtightening it, tightening by hand is quite sufficient, the primary/gearbox drain plug was fortunately o.k.

Well I have got around this, this time by using some special fibre tape with a liberal coating of thread-lock, it was fairly tight to go in and it did actually tighten up very well, but the next time I will need to see about getting it helicoiled.
Would you beleive that the culprit who signed the service book is a Master Tech, no-names mentioned, and works for Oxford Harley Davidson, hence the reason why I don't trust main dealers.

Yes I would (He obviously missed that part of the video that emphasised using common sense )

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