SS bolts - loose

[BruKen]

That's an even better idea. The copperslip is going to be a sod to remove now tho..... the irony ... LOL

[JetdocX]

I'll second the blue loctite suggestion.  Put enough in there and the galvanic corrosion might not be too much of a problem.

PS.  I know what OCD is.  What is AR? :P

[Mustang]

PS.  I know what OCD is.  What is AR? :P

Anal Retentive

[BruKen]

You just can't slip one past Mustang  :lol:  :lol:

[Bixxer Bob]

That is not without some merit I'd suppose. Afterall the torque of a bolt is there to define its torsion isn't it?. And different alloys will stretch differently. Kind of reminds me of my sea days. Some of the engine mounting nuts were larger than me. To tighten them we would hydraulicly stretch the bolt and then wind the nut on. Release hydraulic tension and the bolt contracted pulling the nut tight. Thermal expansion could ultimately do the same thing. Though it must be said, the crank covers never get particularly hot.

Honest, I just don't know.

Torque settings do much the same. When calculating the torque setting for a bolt the engineer is working out how much it can be stretched before it's elastic limit is reached less a safety factor thus using tension (the stretching of the bolt) to hold whatever it's fixing in place.

[Bixxer Bob]

The oem bolts are flanged head hex bolts

 which have far superior holding power to covers and such

I can't see from the photo but I'm guessing the flanges have serrations on the underside thus acting as a mechanical fixing ie lockwasher?

[Mustang]

some do some don't , can't remember if the tigger ones do or not , but they certainly stay tight on all the covers .

[BruKen]

Do they do them in SS so I can do an empirical test though?  
 :lol:

Not to worry, I am going to try spring washers. The standard fit washer doesn't fit all the recesses  aesthetically.

[JetdocX]

Maybe it's TMI, but everything in my anus is moving through at a high rate of speed in the out direction. :lol:

RETENTIVE, NO.

[BruKen]

Nothing personal.  :lol:  On last year's tiger camp and ride out it was quite an education on the demographic of tiger ownership. When I go to Beemer camp outs the demographic is IT, marketing, sales etc. The personality follows suit. With tigers, the demographic was engineers, architects and the like.
I'm a science major myself. But from way back since Uni days, there has always been a joshing rivalry between the two faculties. Engineers, like to work with hard sciences like mathematics, where as the pure sciences are mostly theoretical. In this question above, I have plenty theories, but I need (would like) a hard answer. The mathematical brain of a good engineer is by nature is a bit OCD and AR, yes?   :lol:

[BruKen]

Let me help you out, conversely, you'd say the scientist is fickle and whimsical ( to the latest convenience / fad theory that joins the dots......)

My bad, I forgot, good engineers lack a sense of humour  

[JetdocX]

I am currently stumped. So I deflect with humor. :lol:

[rf9rider]

I am currently stumped. So I deflect with humor. :lol:

I think we all are  :lol:

[Colonel Nikolai]

Steamer owners are either old enough to have bought them new or strange enough to keep a 16 year old bike on the road. I am both old and strange. And in I.T. And although I was born in Bavaria, and went to university there, you will not see any Bavarian Motor Werk thing in my garage anytime soon.

On rebuilding a dead Buell XB9S last winter I decided that blue (and sometimes even red) Loctite was the answer to most problems having to do with correct torque settings. The Buell factory manual even says so. Mind you this has a lot to do with the fact that the engine is a 45º V-twin that vibrates like a jackhammer. There is no bolt, not kidding; not one single bolt on that engine that doesn't get some amount of goo suggested in the manual on reassembly.

So a little bit of blue will not hurt the steamer, I think.

[Sin_Tiger]

I am currently stumped. So I deflect with humor. :lol:

With you there but it sometimes backfires on me