kz1000J3 broken camchaft cap

Hi

I hate to admit that I really broke one of the camchaft caps when putting it on. I quess those are machined with the cylinder head and now I need the whole thing. Please tell me what year models have the same cylinder head.!!

HELP...

Oskari

Show a picture of the cap. Depending on how it's broken it may not matter much at all. Ed

There was another one here a few months ago. It was glued together. BAD IDEA. It should have been welded. They are a matched set to the head. You could get another one, take it to a machine shop and have it fitted or have the one you have welded and put it on.
Steve

If you find a replacement it will need to be line bored to the head before you try and use it

if you can get some other caps some
www.plastigaugeusa.com/how.html
will tell you if you can use em or not without having them machined.

leon

Yup, years ago I had too many 550 engines in bits, some cam caps got mixed between a couple of heads. as they are numbered, by removing the valves and putting one cap on at a time I could feel the difference. Not ideal, now I dot punch mark them .

Rebuilding my 67 Pontiac Le Mans 326 motor, I had a guy washing parts for me. I told him not to mix up the rod bearing caps. He did. I sent him home. I wanted to murder him! Putting it together I had to go with the witness marks from when they were machined. Fired it up, nice and smooth, then it slowed down and froze. I was so disgusted, that car sat for ten years until I scrapped it. Wish I would have kept it. :pinch:
Old saying "You pay peanuts, you get monkeys". :whistle:
Steve

swest wrote: Old saying "You pay peanuts, you get monkeys". :whistle:
Steve

I like it.

When I was wrenching on bikes, I'd get machines that some expert had worked on. I'd take it in depending on how bad it was. Sometimes I'd send them away. :dry:
I went back to pounding nails when I got my kids, then after a while I started my handyman service. One of my competitors had a slogan; We fix what your husband broke. :lol:
Wish I had though of it. :whistle:
Steve

I guess I went a little off topic. What is the decision on the cam cap?
Steve

swest wrote: I guess I went a little off topic. What is the decision on the cam cap?
Steve

I also want to see how it is broken first....

I'm not sure about KZ's but with Suzuki GS's, which also have line bored cam caps, you can replace lost/damaged caps with another one without issue (typically). I'd try a new cap before scrapping the head. It might help to have a couple to choose from.