Ticking / Slapping Noise Coming From Engine

CDsDontBurn · May 6, 2013

Yea, I got it now. The EGR valve I ordered with everything also came with a gasket.

And I'll take pictures of the gaskets. Oh, and the 4 gaskets are also metal. In fact, they're all metal except for the throttle body ones.

RichBinAZ · May 7, 2013

I have not got the spare engine back into my bike. At 180 lbs it's quite the bear to wrestle in and out, so i don't know for sure if the black RTV method is a winner or not. I did do it to the find 2 gasket in those pictures - but who knows if that works or not.

Leave the multi-piece metal gaskets in one piece! they are meant to be that way. The head gasket on my bandit is that way and works fine. At the cylinder hole, they roll one of the gaskets around and over the other 2 making a gas tight seal.

That bolt on the crankshaft for the timing belt is somewhere around 180 ft-lbs. I think you need the special restraining tool and a few others to get that off and on.

CDsDontBurn · May 7, 2013

RichBinAZ said:
I have not got the spare engine back into my bike. At 180 lbs it's quite the bear to wrestle in and out, so i don't know for sure if the black RTV method is a winner or not. I did do it to the find 2 gasket in those pictures - but who knows if that works or not.

Leave the multi-piece metal gaskets in one piece! they are meant to be that way. The head gasket on my bandit is that way and works fine. At the cylinder hole, they roll one of the gaskets around and over the other 2 making a gas tight seal.

I wasn't going to take apart the gaskets, lol. It just made me feel uncomfortable that there is a rivet type deal holding the three gaskets together and the OEM one is just a single thick piece of metal. The fact that there are two rivets holding all three metal pieces together makes me wonder if the IM will make a flush fit like it does with the OEM gasket.

RichBinAZ said:
That bolt on the crankshaft for the timing belt is somewhere around 180 ft-lbs. I think you need the special restraining tool and a few others to get that off and on.

And, that's whole reason why I ended up taking my car to a shop instead of doing it myself. I don't have the tools I need to get the job done properly myself like I originally wanted to.