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As reported earlier, there was no point trying to save these heavily corroded spring loaded exh bolts and nuts. Ideally, I wanted to break them at different position but the corrosion was so deep that they all snapped off in the middle. Will cut them off later. ...
As expected, lots and lots of oil seepage from many places. It’s going to take some time washing these off properly. The leakage around the rear bank TB back cover/plate. Some of the dirt was caused by the drive shaft grease being splashed around the area. Interesting bolts and washers used for ...
Started to remove the valve cover. I was hoping that the leakage was from the corner of the valve cover gasket above the #1 cam holder so that I don’t need to remove the cam shaft. Unfortunately, it was not the case and the valve cover gasket was really stuck on the cyl head and cam holder surfaces that I had to pull it off ...