It wouldn't require too-too much heat to remove them, but it is nice to be assured that the Loctite is doing its job of preventing lo-torque fasteners from undoing, or in the case following, engine vibration. Nature of a Diesel to be a shaker at idle. The worst experience I endured of removing a bolt with threadlocker was the 24mm (bold dia,, not head dia.) crank bolt on an Audi Diesel engine, to change the crank seal, timing belt, and camshaft seal. I had a 1" breaker bar with a jackstand under the extension going in to the bolt, and a schedule 40 piece of oilfield cheater pipe six feet long. I had to jump up and down on the pipe; the bolt finally gave up and loosened. Of course, with all that force, I couldn't put something down #1 glow plug hole to hold it in place, so someone held the brakes; that didn't work, so I had to take a front wheel off, put two lug bolts back on, and put a 1" long extension in between the lug bolts, anchored on the ground. I had to clean it and the hole threads, and re-apply 242 on the threads with some ungodly amount of ft-lbs of torque.
________________________________ From: oldschoolgwin <[email protected]> To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers! <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:00:11 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: CAM sprocket bolts - reinstall with Loctite???? Correction - I stand in error. The manual does call out a thread locker for these bolts in 1) the general information under torque values for engine - cam sprocket "apply a locking agent to the threads" and 2) in chpt 6 (cyl head valves) general information under torque values "apply a locking agent to the threads". The interesting part is both referenced above call for 13-16 ft*lbs WHILE the detailed installation instructions n chapter 6 call for 16-19 ft*lbs so the specs are in conflict with each other. I guess locktite 243 may be the optimum choice. Paul On Sep 10, 5:02 pm, oldschoolgwin <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen a few references to using locktite when installing the CAM > sprocket bolts. I haven't been able to find reference to this in the > Honda manual. > > Is this a reccomended practice. > > Possible scenarios are: > 1. It's not needed to prevent the bolts from loosening (or Honda would > have specified it) > 2. It is needed (Honda just didn't specify it - doesn't seem likely) > 3. If it is used -removing them the next time may be really difficult > or most likely require heating with a torch. Ouch - i don't like this > scenario. > > Any thoughts on this one? > > Thanks, > > Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
