Valve check question

Joined
May 6, 2011
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517
Location
Vancouver, WA
Bike
2007 GL1800
STOC #
8714
I'm reassembling the camshaft covers, after adjusting the valves. The service manual says to replace the sealing washers and flange bolts. Am I reading that correctly? It makes sense to replace the washers, but is everyone really replacing ALL 12 flange bolts (camshaft holders A & B) per head?
 

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Oct 12, 2005
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1,779
Location
Germantown, WI
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2019 BMW R1250RT
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5929
Don't bother changing the flange bolts. You are only torqueing them to 9ft-lbs which is nothing to those threads. I've never replaced the bolts in the several times that I've gone in and adjusted the valves in both my ST and several others that I have done...
 
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