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Posted by chief
 - April 23, 2019, 10:51:30 AM

Have you looked in the Mods and Accessories section? This might be what you need.

https://www.vulcandrifterriders.com/plugrepair.html

Posted by Pete
 - April 21, 2019, 03:23:56 AM

OK people, my turn to ask for some help.

I've noticed a witness of oil has started to appear around the blanking plug in the cylinder head. The blanking plug is in line with the camshaft, so I'm guessing that its purpose is machining access during manufacture, probably the cam bearing cap and the head machined together.

The cap certainly doesn't get a mention in the Kawasaki or Haynes workshop manuals. That nice Mr. Google hasn't helped either.

In the parts list it is a bung with two grooves, one with an O-ring (which must need replacing) and one groove without an O-ring. I suspect that this second groove is something to do with how the plug is secured in the cylinder head. As the parts list doesn't appear to show any fixing details, all I can think of ist that the dowel pin that locates the rocker-box cover is long enough to engage with the second groove in the plug.

Does anybody know how to remove it? how is it secured in place - is it the same dowel pin that locates the cover?

If you see this post twice it's because I tried to post yesterday, but it seems to have disappeared and this is my second try.

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