Now it's gushing oil

[Neville Lush]

Clean all the silicon and crap off of everything, head, valve cover and gasket. Get all the tubes of silicon and give them to a plumber, thats what it is for , plumbing. Put a thin smear of three bond 1211 in the D's of the head, a smear about .005" thick. Then place the clean dry rubber valve cover gasket into the valve cover. Hold it in place with a SMALL drop of superglue every couple of inches around the gasket, and two or three little drops around the spark plug rings. Carefully lower the cover with gasket attatched onto the head, locate the D's as you lower it down. Let it sit and look all around with a torch and see if the edges are all inplace. Then do up the bolts. Maybe to a practise install without the gasket a couple of times, so you get the hang of which way to put the cover on. See how you go with that. Good luck.

 

[Wrecka]

Clean all the silicon and crap off of everything, head, valve cover and gasket. Get all the tubes of silicon and give them to a plumber, thats what it is for , plumbing. Put a thin smear of three bond 1211 in the D's of the head, a smear about .005" thick. Then place the clean dry rubber valve cover gasket into the valve cover. Hold it in place with a SMALL drop of superglue every couple of inches around the gasket, and two or three little drops around the spark plug rings. Carefully lower the cover with gasket attatched onto the head, locate the D's as you lower it down. Let it sit and look all around with a torch and see if the edges are all inplace. Then do up the bolts. Maybe to a practise install without the gasket a couple of times, so you get the hang of which way to put the cover on. See how you go with that. Good luck.

Mate that is the most helpful thing i have heard so far , thank you i'll buy another gasket just incase i buggered the last new one and ill follow your instructions to a t , cheers

 

[Jag]

Mate that is the most helpful thing i have heard so far , thank you i'll buy another gasket just incase i buggered the last new one and ill follow your instructions to a t , cheers

How you making out with the head gasket, did you get it all straighten out.

 

[ScottishR3T]

Hey Wrecka, I've just done the valve cover on my touring in the last week. I'm assuming it's the same design as other models.

I found it easiest to put the gasket onto the head the lay the valve cover on top.

I put a very thin smear of liquid gasket silicone onto the D's of the gasket and a little between the D's and each corner and just around the corners too. I let it cure for 5 minutes the got everything carefully settled ono the head and pushed down. Checked and double checked to make sure it was well seated, paying extra attention to the plug holes and D's.

Then got the valve cover carefully placed and checked all round to make sure I hadn't moved it. I shone a light down the plug holes to make sure all was still seated down there.

After that I slowly hand tightened all the bolts working in an opposing pattern. Checked the gasket again then half torqued the bolts in a opposing pattern, checked again then fully torqued the bolts.

I took my time and made sure I didn't over torque the bolts. This area of the engine shouldn't be under any oil pressure so the bolts are fine at 12 nm as per the manual. I think it'd be very easy to over tighten the bolts and distort the rubber gasket.

Mine seems to be ok since I done it, no weeping at all. I hope you get it sorted mate

 

[warp9.9]

Clean all the silicon and crap off of everything, head, valve cover and gasket. Get all the tubes of silicon and give them to a plumber, thats what it is for , plumbing. Put a thin smear of three bond 1211 in the D's of the head, a smear about .005" thick. Then place the clean dry rubber valve cover gasket into the valve cover. Hold it in place with a SMALL drop of superglue every couple of inches around the gasket, and two or three little drops around the spark plug rings. Carefully lower the cover with gasket attatched onto the head, locate the D's as you lower it down. Let it sit and look all around with a torch and see if the edges are all inplace. Then do up the bolts. Maybe to a practise install without the gasket a couple of times, so you get the hang of which way to put the cover on. See how you go with that. Good luck.

Nice trick with the superglue Nev I have not had a problem with min but that could definitely help especially if the gasket comes folded and mucked up from the dealer.

 

[Wrecka]

How you making out with the head gasket, did you get it all straighten out.

Wasnt the head gasket i was working on.

 

[Wrecka]

Nice trick with the superglue Nev I have not had a problem with min but that could definitely help especially if the gasket comes folded and mucked up from the dealer.

Nev's way of doing it worked sucessfully for me. Finished it last night around 10pm and took it for a 40 klm ride this morning not one leak I was quite suprised how much 10nm is with the torque wrench , i wasnt game to take them up to 10 so i did them all up to 7.5 , will retighten after ive put another 1000 klm on her.

 

[CanberraR3]

Nev's way of doing it worked sucessfully for me. Finished it last night around 10pm and took it for a 40 klm ride this morning not one leak I was quite suprised how much 10nm is with the torque wrench , i wasnt game to take them up to 10 so i did them all up to 7.5 , will retighten after ive put another 1000 klm on her.

Why would you do that? The Service Manual says 12Nm.

 

[Wrecka]

Why would you do that? The Service Manual says 12Nm.

1) Paranoid about snapping bolt or stripping thread
2) My PDF Manual says 10NM
3) Same reason i have a car tire on the back , it's my bike and i'll do what ever the *** i want with it

 

[CanberraR3]

1) Paranoid about snapping bolt or stripping thread
2) My PDF Manual says 10NM
3) Same reason i have a car tire on the back , it's my bike and i'll do what ever the *** i want with it

That all makes perfect sense.
Thought you'd come on here seeking help. My mistake, sorry.
Knock yourself out bro.