Hiii! I'm baaaack! Fell behind with another project so had to step away from this for a minute to play life catch up.
I've got today and tomorrow to research and (hopefully, my ability to figure it out fast enough withstanding) get started on this retorque. Tearing into research as fast as I can at the moment as I'm hoping I can at least get the tank off before dark today. As bad as I want to just pull that damn tank off--which I've been dying to do so I can explore what's going on under there--and just start tearing into things, forcing myself to figure out all the steps first, see if there's tools I need I don't have blah blah, especially since I can't really leave many things sitting out overnight where I'm working. So, so far, just to get to the bolts, I need to:
--pull the gas tank. To do that I need to disconnect fuel pipes and vacuum pipes from petcock, and loosen bolt by the seat. How to do this, I'm hoping you tube will show me shortly, not seeing it in manual so far
--pull the top motor mount (found
this video, time 8.12 removes mount)...I do see that the manual says to only remove 4... Looks straight forward now that I see what the motor mount actually is haha
Having done those things, I'm hoping then I see these bolts. Still debating whether or not to lube (some say anti-seize, other oil) the bolts or not. Will look into torque details after I have the above complete
A few quick questions that have popped up as I've been reading:
--Loosening bolts before tightening to get an accurate reading? Seen both yes and no advised. If loosening, loosen all at once and then follow pattern, or loosen one, do full torque to spec, then onto the next, the pattern not really mattering as much in that context. Cleaning each bolt has been advised so I need to loosen to do that...
--The measurements for these bolts (and for these types of measurements in general)...is it the measurement for the head of the bolt or the thread? I can't measure the thread with it in the hole obviously so if it's the thread, hopefully there's a way to know you're dealing with the right one (I know there are diagrams for the head, I'm just wondering for this and general purposes as well)
--Oh and I saw a few people advising to change out the washers.. I don't want to cuz I don't want to wait on things to be delivered but if you guys say it's important for now, then I'll shut up and do it. Last thing I need is another problem due to half doing something so I guess I just answered my own question.
It's only been two weeks, but still, good to be back.