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I had my Kawi running last summer, so far so good. I found (and fixed) a few oil leaks, no problems. Then I found a leak at the base gasket - ugh. So earlier this spring, I disassembled the engine (again) to replace the gasket and use a little evil permatex to seal things up.

The snag comes in when I torqued my cylinder head down...yep its bad...The 18 ft-lb sequence no problem, when I tightened it to final torque, #9 in sequence went soft!

This engine has APE studs and nuts holding it together. However, I'm guessing that I pulled the stud out of its hole! Anyone have experience with a Timesert?

I was tempted to ignore it and see if it leaks at the head but thats asking for trouble.

that sucks,its connected to one of the oil passages! time to pull it back off and do an autopsy,when you installed the new studs did you run a botteming tap through the holes to clean out the threads?

PLUMMEN wrote:

that sucks,its connected to one of the oil passages! time to pull it back off and do an autopsy,when you installed the new studs did you run a botteming tap through the holes to clean out the threads?

I'd thought I'd followed the rules and cleaned out the threads and installed the studs by APE's directions.

Guess I'm just lucky!

I'm hoping that a Timesert will be all I need. I'll post again with the findings.