XBR500 Clutch Cover & Oil Tank Gasket

[guest1591]

Hello,
Am new to this so hope I am posting in the right place?

I have an '86 XBR500 with a '85 engine in it which ran Ok but was 'tatty' so I removed the engine to paint it and tidy up the frame. On re-fitting the engine, I have run into a problem of having great difficulty putting back on the clutch cover. This sems to be to do with a location peg, on the actual cover, just under where the kick-start shaft passes. The peg is slightly damaged but I can see no place where it is intended to fit as there is nothing around the k/s shaft inside the cases. Any ideas please?

Also, I would like to split the oil tank but gaskets for same appear to be long unavailable. Does anyone know of a pattern gasket or will one from another honda dry-sump model fit.

Thanks a million if anyone can help me here.

JL666

[500 T C]

                    Did you push down the cam follower lever down , when installing the clutch cover?
                Is the starter cam punch mark aligned with the kickstart spindle punch mark?
                I had the same problem, hope this helps.
                Why split the oil tank, just swill it out with some white spirit,if you must.   

[Nell]

There is a metal screen filter in the oil tank. I had to split the tank and clean it after carrying out an oil and filter change some time ago. I always check the oil flow to the cambox afterwards and it looked less than normal. There was quite a bit of sludge and fluffy material on top of the screen although I change the oil and filter every 1000 to 1200 miles but the bike had done nearly 50000 miles at that time.
David Silver had gaskets then. (about four years ago)

[500 T C]

Well, did you did you fix the problem?

[Nell]

Well, yes I did.
You said you would like to split the oil tank so I was just pointing out that there is a metal screen filter inside which can get blocked and gaskets may still be available from David Silver.