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I did use the washers under the head nuts, but those would not account for the amount of shortage there is. And the head was fly cut, making it shorter (only a marginal amount for clean up).
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Skidmark wrote: Hindsight being 20/20, I probably should have measured and recorded the OEM stud heights prior to removing them... oops.
Shrug it off. Just keep looking at that beautiful bike begging to be finished. You will have an awesome bike once it’s done...
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Good luck
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Skidmark wrote: APE has great customer service. They researched it and called back in the less than 15 minutes. I have the correct studs and head nuts. Apparently when I cleaned up the cases and ran a tap in the case holes to clean them up, it opened the threads slightly, enough to wear they will thread in too deep. They recommend using a ball bearing in the case holes to prevent the stud from going in too deep. That won't work on all locations as some are tapped through into the case interior. I guess it's time to buy a new base and head gasket as it's going back down to the block.
because not all the holes are blind the stud bottoms out where the stud threads end not on the bottom of the hole. You could tap the hole to china and the stud would assemble the same way, as long as you didn't counter bore the hole nothing should change. Either APE formed their threads too long, you have the wrong studs, or (what i assume is likely) you installed the studs in the wrong locations, they do not all assemble at the same height.
as long as you don't tear or deform your gaskets i personally would reuse them if they haven't been through a heat cycle.
we've all been there. it took me like 5 trys to assemble my first kz1000 engine. a litany of stupid mistakes.
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