OK, I'm fed up; the sidecover rubber hats/nuts

[spuggy]

Are a very strange idea. Once the thread gets a little corrosion on it, can be pretty tricky to get enough pressure on the rubber to stop it spinning.

Especially jamming your fat sausage fingers into a space that isn't really big enough, and you don't want to put enough pressure on the side cover ear to break the carbon.

How do you guys deal with these? Small long-nose mole grips as good as it gets?

I really don't want to drill the head out, but it took me almost an hour to get one screw out - and the top one next to the tank is resisting my advances. Pretty sure. Might have moved it a little. It's pretty chewed up on the rubber side/someone already saturated it with penetrating oil, so I'm certainly not the first...

Gee, I wish they'd just used a rubber locating jobby and a nyloc...

OK - vent over. But if there's a good way to deal with these that hasn't occurred to me, I'd love to hear it...