Completed Overhaul: WONT START

[Call Me Ahab]

Confirmed: On my bike, before I lost them... they were all copper on the top end. Leaking oil out from the serrations in my flange nuts.

Compression after most recent timing is in the 120's.

Do indeed own a torque wrench, but I kept tightening them after they started squirting oil. Not going to do me any good though, those copper washers are made to "crush" to an extent to create a gasket. Stainless steel and zinc plated hardware won't yield enough, especially when I'm using the serrated flange nuts =[

Will be replacing all the nuts and washers with the correct ones as soon as I can locate them, until then I'll busy myself with stopping my oil pan leak and finishing the paint on the exhaust headers.

[Starion007]

I took a look at a head I have in storage and it is the four outside and four next to the cam tower that are brass. If you cant find yours PM me and I will send you some to use. I have plenty of extras in my stash.
Mark

[Call Me Ahab]

I took a look at a head I have in storage and it is the four outside and four next to the cam tower that are brass. If you cant find yours PM me and I will send you some to use. I have plenty of extras in my stash.
Mark

All good, I found some copper washers local - fixed it right up!

Now to synch carbs, set fuel mixture screws correctly and fine tune cable settings.

Then the bodywork on the tank, side covers and fenders. Going to go with white metal flake for now, when I have the time and money I'll do the blue-and-white Wes Cooley style paint.