Oil leak from front valve cover

[josephvman]

I noticed a little oil weeping from the valve cover area of my front cylinder a few months back, and just applied a little more torque to those bolts and thought it was fine. I haven't ridden the bike in a number of weeks (I'm in the honeymoon stage with the 1098!) and yesterday I was poking around in the garage and noticed a bit of oil on the floor under the front cylinder. It's not much, so I checked the valve cover bolts again and a couple could be turned a quarter-turn without much effort, so I did that. Anyone else have any seeping from the front valve cover? Does anyone know the torque setting for the valve cover bolts?

[IainMac]

They aren't big bolts so dont over tighten them or they'll likely strip the threads.
Get some thread lock (not the permanent stuff) and take it apart. clean the threads/bolts and refit with the threadlock. Can't recall the torque specs off hand but this chart gives some indicators and they arent high.
http://www.imperialinc.com/pdf/A_Fas...rqueCharts.pdf

[sick50ford]

Hyper torque specs

[NYSport]

Here is a link to all Hypermotard torque settings. They are in NM and need conversion, second url.

http://www.ctarna.com/Ducati/HyperMo...20Settings.pdf

http://www.pitt.edu/~rsup/touqueconv.html

[bullet3z]

I would contact the dealer and has this fixed under warranty. It might be a bad gasket.

[Monstaman]

Mine have done the same, quick re-torque sorts it out, I had to do the cam end O ring as Luigi nipped a bit off when he installed it hence it leaked.