Is there more to removing the right-side crankcase cover than is shown in the Haynes manual? I have removed the ignition rotor and the 13 bolts shown but the front of the cover does not move at all. The rear edge will move slightly when pried on but only just enough to say that it is not stuck. The front edge has had an oil leak for some time so you would think it was ready to just fall off. Not so. HEEELLLLP! Thanks!
Did you say 13 bolts? Just wondering, because my '89-to-'02 version of the Haynes manual mentions 15:
(http://bbburma.net/Scans/Haynes_CrankcaseCoverBolts.jpg)
There are a couple of bolts under the signal generator plate.
:mad: I don't remember reading anything about taking the timing plate off. So today after work it should just fall off then. Cool! Thanks little bro and Dguyver. I'm trying to get ready for a little trip from central Arkansas over to Barber's for the AHRMA weekend the 18th to the 21st. Took my oldest daughter last year on my dad's ST 1300 pulling a tent trailer. It will be a little different this year with just me, the trusty GS and a pup tent. And I have so much to do to get ready!!
Thanks for the help. It did just come right off. I double checked my Haynes that only goes up to 97. It has the same photo but says thirteen bolts and has no arrows to the two behind the timing plate. It does show the plate removed but says nothing about taking it off. Anyway, I got to ride it to work this morning. The hardest part was scraping the old gasket off the cover. Like it was bonded on with something but no sign of sealant or adhesive of any kind that I could see. You grab it where it overhangs into the case and it would just break off. It took well over an hour trying not to gouge the mating surface. And where it was leaking it looked like the gasket had just shrunk/receded back into the case away from the mating surface?
Wow - basically a one-day turnaround then, eh? :thumb: You always were quicker at that kind of thing than I was. I would have had to think about it for a couple days, take the cover off, think a couple more days, get the timing plate off, let it sit for another day or two....
Glad to hear it all worked out. (I assume the leak is gone?)