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I understand what you are saying but working in a few machine shops over the years it's hard for me to believe that a 5/16 bolt torqued to 200 inch pounds / 17 ft pounds actually stretch's the bolts. Your thoughts, I actually torqued a 5/16 old crankcase bolt to 40 ft pounds in an old case and...

Question, why do you have to replace the crankcase bolts on a V-Twin when you open the engine? Why can't you just wire brush them and use tread locker on the old ones? From what I see is that if the treads are good and clean you should be able to just use a good tread locker and torque them are...

I took the valve cover off and then hand turned the engine until the rocker arm was at it's max travel and then tryed to push the valve open even wider and I can by hand. I did this on all of the valves and they all traveled further by pushing with my fingers. So I believe the valve caps are not...

Can you tell if the valve guides are in the block correctly without pulling the head? I just bought a used 25 V-Twin engine that had to badly bent push rods (2) in which I replaced. After reading some, I read that overheating can cause the valve guides to move in the head. I didn't pull the...

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