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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	refilling oil through valves 08/29/08 at 12:04:55 Can I put oil into the engine via the valve covers? I am currently separated from my pair of pliers and I think the oil is borderline critical.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 29042 L.A. California Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #1 - 08/29/08 at 12:08:12 Yes you can.
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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #2 - 08/29/08 at 12:58:52 alright, turns out I dont need a pliers for the fill cap. I AM having trouble breaking the drain bolt. How do you get enough leverage underneath the bike without having it on a stand?
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Re: refilling oil through valves
Reply #3 - 08/29/08 at 12:59:39

Now that you have an answer to your question, I have to know. If you can get the valve cover off, can't you get the filler cap loose? Just use the wrench you were going to open the valve cover with as one side of a plier and your thumb as the other? You work hard enough that you must have a decent grip. I know you do. I saw the video.

Edit: Oops. Posted too late. A 24 oz. pounder works well as a persuasion device for that drain plug.

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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #4 - 08/29/08 at 13:04:57 I thought the fill cap would be tough because I heard about it chipping but it was easy. I just cant get nearly enough leverage with the 17mm wrench at the bottom of the engine.
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barry68v10 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 955 Maryland Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #5 - 08/29/08 at 13:07:33 I hate to bring this up but...are you using "righty tighty, lefty loosie"?
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barry68v10 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 955 Maryland Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #6 - 08/29/08 at 13:08:25 In your defense, I have noticed some people like to put that plug in like they hate it!
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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #7 - 08/29/08 at 13:13:39 yea, put the wrench so the end comes out in front, then try to push down. I was tempted to try stomping it...but that would require me to hold onto the bike, keep the wrench on the bolt, and stomp down on the wrench all at once. Its like Twister
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #8 - 08/29/08 at 13:25:49 Can you put a little pressure on it and tap it with a wrench,finger pressure
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #9 - 08/29/08 at 13:25:59 Astated, point wrench toward front tire, then Spank down on it, a wrench, extension, anything. Its hard to get enough "PUSH" from a prone position. I wrapped a bootlace arouind the drainplug & ran it iout in a matter of seconds, instead of all that twisting with fingertips & avoided getting oil on me, too.
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thumperclone Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline PGR rider riding with respect Posts: 7288 Grand Junction Colorado Gender:	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #10 - 08/29/08 at 16:40:51 DONT let the gorilla put the drain plug back in for you!!! ;
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Re: refilling oil through valves
Reply #11 - 08/29/08 at 16:50:53

Why didn't you ask this first?

box end on drain plug, open end towards front, as high as you can get it.

Do you ever play with those wire puzzles? This is similar. get another wrench, big as you got. take the box end and slip it over the open end of the wrench, one way it'll just hang there, the other will add to the leverage of the 1st.

And BTW, the threads are a tight fit, and it won't leak, just torque it down enough so it don't fall out, OK?

Got it?

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Foxman Ex Member	Re: refilling oil through valves Reply #12 - 08/29/08 at 18:59:22 Mine was also hard to remove. I used my 17mm wrench and used a hammer, and lightly-mediumly tapped the wrench. I worked like a impact wrench. I dunno if this will help you or not, but its worth a try. Good Luck
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Re: refilling oil through valves
Reply #13 - 08/29/08 at 20:08:36

Once you get it off.... do like I did, while the oil is draining, run down to the auto parts store (have someone take you??) and buy a metric replacement oil drain plug. The AutoZone had one that fit perfct and it has a rubber washer verse the compression ring, so it seals nicer and it is easier to get back off. I think it was on 3 or 4 dollars.

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Re: refilling oil through valves
Reply #14 - 08/30/08 at 05:02:04

I got tired of rasslin with the fill plug & found a piece of wood, about 7/8ths X 1/2, & cut a groove in it that the fill plug fits in. I keep it with my little 3 oz oil container. When its tiome for a dose, I pop the cap & squirt 3 Oz in., refill the oil container & its ready for next time.
My cap isnt real hard to get off, its just a bit more than my fingers will do. Now, when I repaint the cap, I wont scrape it up with pliers. It was a hassle with the pliers, because the pipe was right in the way. The stick works great.

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