Contact Breaker Cover Hole

[KitKat]

Hey,

So my GS300L has no emblems on the crankcase cover or contact breaker cover. However, there is a plastic hollow bolt in the contact breaker cover with a 2-sided ruber thing (one piece, goes through both sides). After doing some reasearch, i realized that the hole is supposed to be there.

Now i don't know what to do. I am planning on buying the emblems but this is where i need your guys's help. What is that hole for? once i buy the emblems do i just take out the bolt in the contactbreaker and put the emblem over it?

Thanks--

[Nessism]

Sounds like someone stuck a bolt in the hole after the emblem went missing.

[twiggy2cents]

remove the stud/bolt whatever. put some silicone on it and let it dry. when you get the emblem you can poke the silicone out, it wont get hard and should release from it easily.


P.S. that hole is probably the alignment hole for when you stick the emblem on there

[Hovmod]

I love it when a quick search comes up with the exact answer. I was wondering whether or not to take the rubber plug out before sticking the emblem on, and as I thought the answer was YES!

Thanks!

[sharpy]

Not sure what bolt you are talking about but from memory the emblems have a notch on the bottom that lines up with it corrisponding "V" on the cover. Hole in the contact cover is there on all the covers as standard.

[Hovmod]

Yes, but missing the emblem the PO had stuffed the hole with a rubber plug, which I assumed (correctly) I could remove before sticking the emblem on. I just wanted to check, and against odds there was a thread about it.

[chuck hahn]

He plugged the hole with the bolt to stop sand and road debris from getting in and tearingb up everything in there.

[Hovmod]

He plugged the hole with the bolt to stop sand and road debris from getting in and tearingb up everything in there.

Exactly. And I didn't know if it belonged because it's my first GS and the Haynes manual doesn't have a really good description or picture. It's just not one of those things you find described - "Take out any third party plugs before replacing emblem"...

Looks nice with the emblem. Now I need the other one for the opposite side.

[Topman]

My '81 GS 750 L has a hole in the contact breaker cover, towards the bottom, not covered by the emblem. I hadn't noticed it until I had the cover off and was cleaning off the old gasket, so I'm not sure if there was anything ever in it. From this post I gather that this hole is supposed to be there, but I can't figure how leaving it uncovered I should expect oil not to leak out (it being at the bottom and all)...?