Well, yesterday I painted my VC and as I was re-installing it one of the thread housings for the VC studs on the cam girdle split into 3 pieces. Funny thing was the bolt was just starting to thread into it when it happened, so it wasn't because I overtorqued it.

No oil leaks at the VC-Head meeting point so I'm not worried about fixing it really....
The problem is the bolt. I Used some make-a-gasket between the bolt and VC and that is just a temporary fix...only 3 small drops of oil have come out since. What should I do with the bolt to keep it in the hole?

 

anyone?

Need an answer quick!

 

the stud is split or the girdle?

 

The part where you put the stud into the girdle is split....

 

bump

 

Depends on how bad the split is .... but you may be able to put in a helicoil.

This happened to me on my old Y7. I never fixed it, because the chunk sheered right off. There wasn't anything for me to even put on. I used liquid gasket to hold the bolt down, and that was that.

 

Yeah two chunks split off so mor than 60% of the piece is gone. Liquid gasket FTW.

 

ill third the liquid gasket.

ive done it

it works