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Doms CB550F1 project
DomP:
Thanks Bryan, the o rings are pretty much level with the gasket, will it crush that much?
I'll put a picture up with a steel rule so I can demonstrate how shallow the Vesrah o rings are
DomP:
I got home from work a bit early today, nothing to do with having a half built engine honest! Bryan was correct, the new oil jet o rings were plenty proud of the gasket prior to torquing the head down which I have now done (I went middle of the specified range) following the Honda shop manual, an excellent resource on here thanks to the great forum members. Should I retorque them tomorrow or will it be fine as is?
Getting the camshaft, sprocket and chain all on was a right b#####d, I knew I'd read Ted suggesting his method so trawled back through his build thread until I found his method. All I can say is get the chain on the righthand side of the sprocket not the left then it's easy.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Glad you remembered my struggle with the cam chain - hard to put into words though.
Pleased it helped.👍👍👍
Bryanj:
Honda dont specify retorque but might be an idea to take to the max setting after a 24 hour wait, in workshops we never did as time taken was always against us
DomP:
It really did help Ted, what didn't help was reading Ken mention to check and check again the tensioner is sat in its pocket in the crankcases...I'm panicking now even though I'm sure it was, any way of checking now its all torqued up?
I might do that Bryan but I felt uncomfortable torquing the two m6 flange bolts, makes me cringe doing them up in alloy to specified torque.
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