Adventures in oil changes ...

I have *never* in my life had as hard a time changing the oil ...

To start with, the bolt for the oil filter was stuck, an I meand stuck. I used a wrench, a socket wrench, heat, etc, nothing worked. Then I tried using an impact wrench. I sqw the head on the impact wrench turn - in the wrong direction! Somehow it had switched direction and *tightened* the bloody thing and then rounded the bolt!

To get this off, I followed the advice given here, except that I didin't have a way to weld a nut on top .... Nothing would get it off. I even tried to use a pipe wrench over the filter housing - just ended up breaking some fins off the housing. At this point, I have even removed the header pipes on one side of the bike so I have better access. Still no success. So I went back to trying the hammer and chisel method suggested, only this time, instead of using a hand held chisel and hammer, I used an air hammer with chisel!. Finally, I can get the bolt off ...

Fortunately, I have a spare filter cover and bolt from my 750 parts bike and can swap those over.

Now, having gotten the filter off, I can actually drain the oil out of the case. While this is happening, I go to remount the header pipes - should be nothing to it, right? Wrong! For the life of me I cannot get the top pipe to seat properly. AFter much swearing and stress, I finally get those things attached.

Now its time to put the new oil filter on - and hear comes another 15 min or so of very intense gang-banger vocab as this stupid thing just will not catch the threads and the rubber parts of the filter just will not let the bolt turn by itself. Finally get that on and for some reason the drain bolt doesn't want to go back in the hole. I've cleaned it, I have cleaned out the drain port to make certain nothing is blocking the threads, some 10 min of gang banger talk later, if finally screws into the hole.

Any moron can do an oil change, right? There's one job I just may seriously leave to the professionals in the future. Give me a set of dirty carbs any day!

 

We have ALL had our vocabulary devolve when working on older bikes just be glad you got the job done with out any major breakage .

S!

 

Anti-seize, anti-seize, and more anti-seize will assure that they will come off next time. I went thru the exact same problem last year, new used housing and bolt.