| Author | Message | ||
     Slickshoes19 |
I changed my oil yesterday and now the right plug seems to me leaking significantly. However, it isn't leaking where it seals to the engine case but instead out of the hole where you put the hex head in to tighten and loosen it when changing the oil. Is this possible? Did I tighten it too much? I've never had a bike with 2 oil plugs before. thanks for any help. | ||
| Sparky |
Is it leaking from the drain plug that takes the copper ring gasket? Make sure it has a gasket. Mine was leaking from the left drain plug, the one that takes an aluminum ring gasket. It seems the bike left the factory without a gasket there and it would seep an oil leak very slowly. As bad as that seems, the dealer changed oil on its first service and didn't install the prescribed aluminum gasket at the time, saying afterwards that it didn't need one. Hard to believe, eh? | ||
| Slickshoes19 |
Yeah, it has a copper washer and it'snot leaking from there. I've taken a towel and wiped around the copper ring and there isn't any oil on the towel but when I put the towel onto the the top of the screw head there is quite a bit of oil. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. If it leaks it seems like It would leak around the copper gasket, not inside the screw head. I looked in the screw head to see if it was possible to leak there or if i punctured a hole in it and it's not solid. it's like a mesh of 5 metal triangles so it seems like it could leak , maybe as a protection against over-torquing. That could be completely false but I can't figure out why this oil continues to leak. Makes me feel a little better that even bringing it to a dealer isn't always flawless. | ||
| Spectrum |
Can you post a picture? | ||
| Slickshoes19 |
I'll try to post a pic later but I don't have a computer with Internet (I just use an iPhone). Does that make sense that oil would leak from the groove/hole (that I actually stripped when I torques it back on after the oil change) in the oil plug screw or is that impossible? |
