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Gasket pieces in cam chain tunnel

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So after doing all of my valve clearnace checks and changind every shim twice, to go down two sizes on every single shim, I ended up having to scrape the living hell out of the old gasket. Well I thought I had the cam chain tunnel completely blocked off and would have no issues but when I removed the rags I watched a few paper gasket pieces go down in the tunnel. Yup it was a sickening feeling. Now what do I do?
 
If that doesn't work, I would dump some oil down the cam chain tunnel. The pieces will end up on the sump screen in the oil pan. If they're huge then try to vacuum out as much as possible.
 
Turn the bike upside down and shake those nasty bits out....


just kidding......


:D
 
Toasty said:
If that doesn't work, I would dump some oil down the cam chain tunnel. The pieces will end up on the sump screen in the oil pan. If they're huge then try to vacuum out as much as possible.
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then remove the oil pan right?
 
So I imagine it wouldn't be enough to cover it. Will it eventually dissolve?
 
stoy75 said:
So I imagine it wouldn't be enough to cover it. Will it eventually dissolve?
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no it wont dissolve and a few pieces about an inch long could stick to the strainer and starve the pump of oil.
either way you do it, you need to get out as much as possible.....
 
Ok. I'm just lost as to what pouring oil into the cam tunnel would do. Not being smart just curious
 
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