Right, I'm really pissed off at myself, I've just snapped/over tighten a bolt on the rocker cover after doing my tappets.

I don't suppose anyone has got one spare? I will be going to the local dealers on monday morning to order one, but i've got a track day booked on friday and would like to get it asap.

Here is the bolt:



This is where is from:




The bolt above has a threaded hole at the top of it. This is where a smaller bolt screws into. This is the one that has snapped. So now I need to replace the one shown above.

Thanks

James

 

Wohoo! Just managed to remove the remains of the bolt!
So now I don't need the item above.

Thanks anyway

 

The bolt fairy has been kind to both of us today then

 

Well-extracted, both of you!

 

I've done that.

I dashed down to my local halfords to buy a set of stud extractors, and then found that even though the head had sheared the bolt hadn't bottomed out and was free to turn and wind out with the tip of a sharp scriber!

 

What happened to you gaspode?

I still need a small M6 bolt which holds the rocker cover down, but thats no big deal. I can't believe it snapped, after being so careful doing the tappets.

Nick

 

ISTR its a M6 not an M12. (even though you use a 12mm socket on it)

You can always borrow one of the ones that holds the control box to the wing next to the brake master cylinder as a temporary stop gap.

 

Ah well, sometimes if it can go wrong,it will. But "alls well that ends well".

 

Yes your right, it is an M6 not M12. I don't know why I wrote that.

Thats what happend to me lower. The bolt hadn't even hit the bottom? It's the rubber washers, they take away all the feeling.

Thanks for the tip, I'll go nick a bolt from the brake cylinder.

 

Mine was nowhere near as drastic.
Just fitting the rear upper brace.

There is one bolt that is a ruddy pig to remove without removing the fuel line.
( or it is with my El Cheapo Hellfrauds