Hi,
Yesterday, took my ‘06 Connie out. Changing oil and final gear drive oil. Ran into a couple problems.
First, torquing the final drive drain bolt, the head literally twisted off. In the manual, instructions state torque 13ft/lbs. Now half the bolt is still lodged in that drain hole. Do I just get an extractor and try that? I certainly don’t want the remaining bolt to go back in that drive oil bay… So far, it’s holding - it isn’t leaking.
Second, changing the oil. When I removed the oil filter housing, I noticed there was no washer. (in the book, it goes spring-washer-oil filter). Now it’s just spring-oil filter. That spring is contacting the rubber on the oil filter. My question is this…. not thinking, I just re-assembled and filled the oil. Will that spring-rubber contact (not having that washer in there) do more harm than good?
Any advice here is appreciated. I’m at the point I ride the bike the 3 miles down the road to the shop and have them do it.
Yesterday, took my ‘06 Connie out. Changing oil and final gear drive oil. Ran into a couple problems.
First, torquing the final drive drain bolt, the head literally twisted off. In the manual, instructions state torque 13ft/lbs. Now half the bolt is still lodged in that drain hole. Do I just get an extractor and try that? I certainly don’t want the remaining bolt to go back in that drive oil bay… So far, it’s holding - it isn’t leaking.
Second, changing the oil. When I removed the oil filter housing, I noticed there was no washer. (in the book, it goes spring-washer-oil filter). Now it’s just spring-oil filter. That spring is contacting the rubber on the oil filter. My question is this…. not thinking, I just re-assembled and filled the oil. Will that spring-rubber contact (not having that washer in there) do more harm than good?
Any advice here is appreciated. I’m at the point I ride the bike the 3 miles down the road to the shop and have them do it.