Time-serts for cam cap bolts

RonKZ650 wrote:

Also 12ft/lb is way too much for any 6mm bolt. I don't care what the manuals say, you'll strip them all at 12ft/lb. Isn't it like 5.5ft/lb on your basic 6mm bolt otherwise? I stay there and they will strip at 5.5 even sometimes. Oops I forget, don't use ft/lb, tighten to 66in/lb. Much better.

What surprised me is that all the J-motored 1000/1100 Kawasaki manuals say 12 ftlbs for the cam cap bolts...even through all the various revisions.

we should make a thread regarding mistakes in manuals so that people like me following the manual cause I'm a bike vrigin don't mess up anymore..