cylinder head studs

I removed the head on my 880 for the first time and found the three nuts in the recessed holes at the front came out attached to the studs. Does this matter or should I remove the nuts and loctite the studs into the top of the barrel.

Use a very small amount of red locktite and bottom them lightly in the cylinder head. Jim

Three nuts?? It sounds like you are talking about the two 5/16" studs that come up from the cylinder through the head. If so, the answer is the same as Jim's for the head studs. Remove the nuts from the studs, clean up the threads in both, and put the studs back in the cylinder with some red Loctite. No locking compound on the nut end of the studs.

Ken

Good info. I did it this way.

On 750, I used a small 1/8" bead of red threadlocker on the first threads for the 3 studs in the head. And the same for the two 5/16 center studs in the cylinder.
If I apply to the stud, the threadlocker migrates to the surface when screwing in. So I apply to the threads in the hole.
The red sets almost immediately.

Hopefully I won't need to take the head off too many times. It's a job doing in the frame on Commando, made more difficult with the studs.
That is probably the reason why the factory didn't use any threadlocker on the studs - they knew these bikes would be coming apart at dealerships.

If the locktite comes up when you are tightening it down you might be using too much.

Or when you can, you can put a ball under a stud so its thread is pre-loaded to the receiving thread.