Bandit 1200 Valve Clearance Inspection - Addendum

After a week of commuting I noticed a couple of things. First, while the carb sync smoothed out the idle, it also reduced the idle speed about 100RPM which caused stalls during warmup. Not a big deal although getting the idle speed just right on the old air-cooled Bandit is fiddly.

Second, and more seriously, I noticed some oil seeping from the oil banjo bolts on the valve cover.

Not a lot of oil as the level in the sight glass was still Ok. Still, something that needed to be taken care of and monitored. I cleaned off the oil and torqued down the bolts another 6 inch-pounds, to 83 in-lbs from 77 (about a quarter turn for each bolt, still well under official torque spec of 12 ft-lbs). They were noticeably a bit loose.

I'll ride it for another week and see if there is still any oil leaking.