My DR had the commonly over tightened crankshaft nut cover issue. Mine was bad enough that I couldn’t get the plug to move at all before the hex head completely stripped out.
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So as you may recall I just bought my DR350S only to immediately tear it down. A previous owner stripped one of the four bolts on the cylinder head cover over the camshaft. These bores are under positive oil pressure so it will produce a sizable oil leak.
Went down to the AAA. $127 later it’s mine and now legal to ride on the road!
A bit of time spent in the garage tonight on busy work.
I started out by cleaning off most of the carbon from the cylinder head and piston. A friend of mine suggested using CLP (gun oil), that worked great even for a lazy bastard like me. After that I removed the clutch to check it out then cleaned the clutch cover mating surfaces.
Top of head is ready to start work on the stripped out bolt hole, I just need to find my M6x1 heli coil kit (I know exactly where it is… Almost).
Time to start tearing into the engine. One of the bolt holes for the cylinder head cover was stripped out by the previous owner. This hole is in a spot that is under positive oil pressure so it generates a sizeable leak. In order to fix it I decided to completely remove the head so that I could get an easy out in squarely and eliminate the chance of aluminum shavings being unfriendly to my engine.
As with most fun evenings you have to start by getting naked.
Okay I finally got a bit of time to complete teardown of the KLR engine.
As expected the bearing on the right hand side of the output shaft is damaged.
