Not on a Harley but I have the shop manual and I'm paying attention to threads like this and others for tip and tricks.

 

If it helps.....


Access to some of the bolts on the rocker covers can be a bitch. I did my cams last summer and as part of the process swapped out the polished aluminum rocker covers for chromed. MotionPro sells this tool, or you use an allen bit for a screw driver set in conjunction with a ratcheting wrench of the same size. Put the bit through the ratcheting head of wrench and go to town. If you don't have a ratcheting head wrench, use a standard wrench that fits the bit. IIRC, those bolts take 1/4" allen. Also, I had read about using a piece of wood to push down on the rear cylinder to allow slightly better access to some of the bolts. This compresses the rubber mounts slightly and give a little better access to some of those bolts.

 

I torque those bolts that cannot be reached with a torque wrench by "feel". Use whatever wrench you can get on the unreachable fasteners and tighten it until if "feels" as tight as a properly torqued fastener; never had a leak. I have changed all those fasteners to 12pt ARP fasteners and, like rauchman, use a ratcheting box end wrench to tighten those unreachable fasteners.

These are not critical fasteners. Just need to be tight enough to keep oil inside; no special tools required.

 

It does help, thank you!

 

(Keep torque wrench at 90 to length of extension added, so torque wrench doesn't misread value)

 

Thank you for the tips! Did you bleed/ pump up your lifters before you installed them?

 

No, I've used SE adjustable rods. Adjusting the rods bleeds down the lifters.
Never had to fill new lifters with oil on initial install. Already filled with light grade oil.
Install, adjust and start.

 

I put S&S standards in mine when I did the Rock Outs as well. I did not soak or pre-oil the lifters before I put them in. I had no noise at start up.

 

Awesome guys, thanks so much!

 

What's your opinion on the rock nuts? Are they worth the time doing?