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Tappet covers
Bryanj:
NOT crap design or material just people tightening them up too much on old O rings
bobv7:
Probably done up by the same twats who tighten spark plugs like they're anchoring a aircraft carrier. >:(
matthewmosse:
Definitely a part where it pays to use a 6 point socket and I have bought engines or rocker covers where they were ludicrously tight either gorilla tightening or corrosion. An open jaw spanner or 12 pointer is more likely to round them off. By the time your wrenching them off with a pipe wrench and the top looks like it's been chewed by a large dog, I geuss silvers will be getting a call for new ones- though I have seen them put back in that condition.....
Zoltan:
I have my original engine and a spare engine. All 16 tappet covers are a slightly loose fit on a selection of 17mm spanners/sockets. They will turn the tappet covers but I am very careful and gentle with them. None of my 16mm spanners/sockets will actually fit onto the covers. Incidentally, my Honda ST1300 Pan European uses one of those exact tappet covers on the oil filler hole for the rear shaft drive hub!
Bryanj:
If you want cheaper ones to wreck the c50 has unpolished and un laquered ones that cost less
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