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What year is Bargoyle? I forgot. Anyway, Ijust did this job a month ago on my 78 GL1000.My advice;
1. Take off as much stuff as possible (faring, brackets, timing belt covers, engine case savers, etc). You'll need the room.
2.Assuming you have philips head casescrews, get an impact driver.
3.Many new impact drivers have too stiff a spring. When you hit it, it just bounces and does not turn the screw. Take it apart and shorten thespring. Cut off the first spiral.
4. Get a Dremel tool, an arbor and a cutoff wheel to cut slots in the screw heads of the most stubborn screws so you can use a standard screwdriver bit in the impact tool.
5. Get a couple different lengths of extensions to fit the impact driver's socket head.
6. Buy one of those stainless steelallen head screw kits onEbay to replace all thephilips head screws when you button her back up. You are going to ruin a couple screws in the process and the allen head screws are a so much easier to work with.
7. Usesome anti-sieze compound on the screws. You never can tell when you'll need to tear it down again.
8. Patience. It's a must. You need to "worry" those screws out.
9. I had to fashion a gasket scraper out of a stick of wood and a razor blade mounted to the end to get into some of the hard-to-reach spots on the engine case.
I was able to get 4 of the 9 screws loose with the philips head bit. Thehead stripped out of the other 5. I cut slots in these with the dremel tool, then used the standard screwdriver bit. The final screwhead split in half and I ended up cutting a slot in what was left of it. Luckily it finally came loose.
Good luck to you. In retrospect the job wasn't that hard and the challanging bits were kind of fun. It was just a little scary thinking that I was going to bust something off in the engine case.
