Quote Originally Posted by zadam123 View Post
ok i an a novice so before i go crazy trying to figure out if this is the problem is there any way this could be the problem if all winter long i never overheated?

and also this pdf manual dont tell how to take off the valve cover is this hard to do? any writeups on it?

thanks
I'd rather let one of the other members who have actually had those head bolts break weigh in as to whether it affected their VX's during the winter. However, if it was a broken head bolt causing the problems you're having, I'd personally imagine that kind of thing would probably cause problems regardless of ambient temps. Not sure about that though.

[Edited to add] - How was that for timing?

If you're looking at the .pdf file that's available from this site, try searching for "cylinder head cover LH" rather than "valve cover". It appears the "LH" side is the one for the passenger side, and as (good) luck would have it, that side doesn't seem to be as difficult as the driver side.