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Hello guys I bought another cam cover for the sporty and cut it all down now it's ready to swap out was wondering do I need to drop the oil to swap it over or can I get away with taking the old one off without having to drop the oil?
Hello guys I bought another cam cover for the sporty and cut it all down now it's ready to swap out was wondering do I need to drop the oil to swap it over or can I get away with taking the old one off without having to drop the oil?
you dont drain the oil and I hope to gawd you have online access to a manual or have a hard copy. A tq wrench too.
you dont drain the oil and I hope to gawd you have online access to a manual or have a hard copy. A tq wrench too.
FYI you DO NOT want to just pop the cam cover off
Yeah I downloaded one and have got all the right bits and replacement gasket as well and have got all screen shots of the right bolt sequence and procedure. Just wasn't sure if I needed to get an oil pan to drop the oil or not.
Yeah man, don't just pop the cam cover off. Get a manual. Definitely drain the oil. Or deal with a bunch of oil coming out of the cam area when you pop that cover off. You want to make sure you are at compression TDC before you remove the cam cover. This takes off all tension off the valve train and cams.
Follow Hammer Perfromance's guide on Cam install to safely get your cam cover off.
I followed this chicks how to guide with mine when I was doing my 1275 conversion this winter. Came out awesome. But she doesn't mention anything about the proper way to take off the cam cover, which leads me to believe she just drained the oil and took the cam cover off. I don't recommend that method.
Yeah man, don't just pop the cam cover off. Get a manual. Definitely drain the oil. Or deal with a bunch of oil coming out of the cam area when you pop that cover off. You want to make sure you are at compression TDC before you remove the cam cover. This takes off all tension off the valve train and cams.
Follow Hammer Perfromance's guide on Cam install to safely get your cam cover off.
I followed this chicks how to guide with mine when I was doing my 1275 conversion this winter. Came out awesome. But she doesn't mention anything about the proper way to take off the cam cover, which leads me to believe she just drained the oil and took the cam cover off. I don't recommend that method.
why drain the oil? Is it going to start dumping out of the oil tank when the cam cover comes off? Please elaborate why you would need to drain the oil.
when you change the oil under normal circumstances does the oil in the cam chest Gravitate upwards to the oil tank?
Yeah man, don't just pop the cam cover off. Get a manual. Definitely drain the oil. Or deal with a bunch of oil coming out of the cam area when you pop that cover off. You want to make sure you are at compression TDC before you remove the cam cover. This takes off all tension off the valve train and cams.
Follow Hammer Perfromance's guide on Cam install to safely get your cam cover off.
I followed this chicks how to guide with mine when I was doing my 1275 conversion this winter. Came out awesome. But she doesn't mention anything about the proper way to take off the cam cover, which leads me to believe she just drained the oil and took the cam cover off. I don't recommend that method.
Looks awesome mate. Thanks for the advice I did see her video and was going to follow it, but it seemed like it was just to easy so thought I'd check on here.
why drain the oil? Is it going to start dumping out of the oil tank when the cam cover comes off? Please elaborate why you would need to drain the oil.
when you change the oil under normal circumstances does the oil in the cam chest Gravitate upwards to the oil tank?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your still going to have a good amount of oil just sitting the cam chest and the lines that supply it. Especially if the bike has been ran recently. I'm sure you can get away with w/o draining the oil to remove the cam cover but that would seem unnecessarily messy to me.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your still going to have a good amount of oil just sitting the cam chest and the lines that supply it. Especially if the bike has been ran recently. I'm sure you can get away with w/o draining the oil to remove the cam cover but that would seem unnecessarily messy to me.
wrong. When you drain the oil tank it doesnt drain the cam chest.
So the oil is not going to **** out all on the floor if I don't drain the oil first ?
correct
Dont get me wrong, there is some oil in there and its a little messy, but oil does not start draining out of the oil tank when you pull the cam cover. And when one changes oil, the oil in the cam chest doesnt leave the cam chest
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