{"id":68635,"date":"2013-03-11T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=68635"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:13","slug":"gsf1200-carburettor-maintenance-oil-leak-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20130311\/everyday-events\/gsf1200-carburettor-maintenance-oil-leak-4","title":{"rendered":"GSF1200 Carburettor Maintenance &#038; Oil Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this time <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_8589840_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> it&#8217;s just an oil leak, so we don&#8217;t need to remove the valves\u2014all good.<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t do engine work here, so sorry about that \u2605<br \/>\nIf you remove them, worm damage means all sixteen bolts are shot \u2605<br \/>\nIn severe cases, it&#8217;s actually cheaper to buy a new head.<br \/>\nValve lapping (if reusing)<br \/>\n\u2022 Seat cutting<br \/>\n\u2022 Valve protrusion matching and lapping<br \/>\n\u2022 Guide replacement<br \/>\nand so on\u2026 <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/492584_8589840_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> none of that either, so we just clean it up, set the head back on, and crank it down with a torque wrench<br \/>\nGetting the bolt tension right is honestly something I always find really tricky.<br \/>\nThe old blog is here \u2605<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this time &nbsp; &nbsp; it&#8217;s just an oil leak, so we don&#8217;t need to remove the valves\u2014all good. We can&#8217;t do engine work here, so sorry about that \u2605 If you remove them, worm damage means all sixteen bolts are shot \u2605 In severe cases, it&#8217;s actually cheaper to buy a new head. Valve lapping (if reusing) \u2022 Seat cutting \u2022 Valve protrusion matching and lapping \u2022 Guide replacement and so on\u2026 &nbsp; &nbsp; none of that either, so we just clean it up, set the head back on, and crank it down with a torque wrench Getting the bolt tension right is honestly something I always find really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[156,55],"class_list":["post-68635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gsf","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}