I’m in the middle of doing the belts on my 2011 Monster 696 and I’ve hit an annoying issue with the plastic timing belt covers. The horizontal cover is held on by two hex bolts (Part No. 3 in the diagram) that screw into those brass threaded inserts melted into the plastic housing. Front bolt (right hand yellow arrow) came out fine Rear bolt (just forwards of the exhaust) had seized into the brass insert and just spun In the end, the only way I could remove the seized one was to spin it in a driver for a while to generate heat, which softened the plastic around the insert and let the insert pull out. I replaced the insert and reassembled — all sorted. Now I’m trying to remove the vertical cover and I’ve got the same problem… but worse. The troublesome bolt: sits directly behind the upper trellis frame tube (just behind where the upper left yellow arrow points) only allows a short Allen key in there no room for a driver/ratchet can’t put it in a drill to spin it fast enough to heat the insert and even if I did melt it out, there’s no space to get a soldering iron or insert tool in to fit a replacement So I’m basically stuck with a spinning insert and zero access. Has anyone dealt with this before and found a smart way to do it. Thanks!
