So....
I'm not sure how I missed this before, but as I cleaned the grime off of the valve cover to do an initial valve clearance check, I found a weld across a major portion of the valve cover over the #4 exhaust cam.
What the fduck could have caused that? My guess is some kind of major overtorquing of the bolts, but even that seems a stretch... Any ideas?
While it seems more plausible that that somehow happened while the cover was off of the bike, due to the positioning, there are cracks at the #4 intake, and #3 intake bolt locations as well(no welding there). Whoever did this welded both inside and out apparently, as there is excess material on the inside of the cover too, yet they also sealed the cracks with some kind of hard coating, and coated the aforementioned cracks as well. It looks like it is the indian head shellac like you'd use on a freeze plug. I have no evidence of it leaking, but I feel I need to do something about this now that I know about it. Any thoughts?
Oh, and I'm not rushing to put if back on just yet, 4 out of 8 shims were unmarked, and
like a fool I left both my digital caliper and my micrometer sitting on my desk at work...35miles away. >-(
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