Subject: RE: Confession
Author: Chris Berry
Date: Jan 30, 2001, 3:39 PM
Post ID: 1705190363
I was retorquing my heads for the first time and discovered this oddity too.
Gave my 10mm allen wrench to my machine shop buddy and had the angle cut
off. Put it in a 10mm socket and torqued away!
Learn something new about these bikes every day.
Cheers!
Chris in NC
'74 Eldo civ.
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