\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1475279_60146514_0.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
\n![](\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1475279_60146514_1.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\n![](\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1475279_60146514_2.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\n![](\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1475279_60146514_3.jpg\")
We took in a Bandit 1200 today.
\nThe engine has cooled down, so let’s get started on the oil-cooled maintenance quick and easy \u2606
\nThis is our first time running into this particular pattern.
\nWhen removing the head cover, we clean it up and remove surrounding parts as much as possible.
\nThe head cover has a gasket at the spark plug hole.
\nThen there are two dowel pins.
\nWe remove the cover carefully so we don’t drop any of these.
\nWhen we removed the head cover, we heard a small sound\u2014”clinkety-clank”\u2026
\nHuh? What was that?
\nThe gasket is there and the dowel pins are there.
\nNothing around it fell out.
\nThinking it might be my imagination, I slowly tried to crank it, and\u2014”oh, it won’t turn.”
\nIf we force it, we’ll break something.
\nWhat’s going on? That’s strange.
\nAll the parts are there\u2026 hmm? Looking closely at the removed head cover\u2026
\nThe steel gasket part had completely popped out!
\nUgh\u2026 okay. We removed both cams, took off the H-plate, shined a light in there, and rescued it \u2606
\nPhew, glad we found it.
\nNow let’s reassemble the cams.
\nIf you’re removing the head cover yourself, be careful.
\nThis is the first time we’ve seen this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We took in a Bandit 1200 today. The engine has cooled down, so let’s get started on the oil-cooled maintenance quick and easy \u2606 This is our first time running into this particular pattern. When removing the head cover, we clean it up and remove surrounding parts as much as possible. The head cover has a gasket at the spark plug hole. Then there are two dowel pins. We remove the cover carefully so we don’t drop any of these. When we removed the head cover, we heard a small sound\u2014”clinkety-clank”\u2026 Huh? What was that? The gasket is there and the dowel pins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[1922,1919,55],"class_list":["post-79304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-bandit","tag-oil-cooled-maintenance","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79304","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=79304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}