great write up man! thanks for this addition to the forum!

 

Doing a 106 BB, Got the TB on, got the rocker housing on. Dropped teh push rods in, put the piston to to top dead center and started putting the rocker arm support plate, got to final bolt and snap. I was using the tq sequence, was able to get the bolt out whole, looks like they are designed to snap, Tqing to 22 ft lbs in quarter turns in tq sequence, what am I doing wrong? Did I damage anything?

the bolt that snapped was the forward valve side on front cyl.

 

Were you using a Dog Bone Adapter and if so did you adjust the torque value for it?

 

This was teh front cyl, using 3/8ts tq wrench direct had teh other 3 tq'd already so I am concerned that it snapped.

 

Did you reuse the old bolts? One thing I have always done is that if I'm working on the top end of and engine I always use new hardware. I guess it is just piece of mind for me but I have never had one snap on me. Bolts do stretch, and they can only stretch so far before they have to give way. Since you are doing a 106 I hope you installed all new hardware. Atleast you were able to get it out without to much of a headache.

 

Yes I reused old bolts, new gaskets though.

 

book marked, saved and tagged for future reference thanks man for the write up i know its an old post but well worth keeping around

 

Great write up!!!

 

I'm glad that people are still finding this post useful. It was the first writeup that I did. Hope it has helped a lot of you, but most of all I hope it has shown that it's not that scary working on your bike yourself...
J.

 

Nice write up. It's something I would like to do myself, but doubt that I have the time available to do it right. That said, does anybody have any idea how many hours a dealer would charge for this?