Oil Change and Filter problem.

[New GZ250]

Suggest you don't work on your bike in the future, get a professional.
:lol:

[Water Warrior 2]

Your best and safest route might be having a qualified tech remove the right side crank case cover. It has to be in there somewhere. Could a cheap investment in the long run. Any small foreign object can trash moving parts. 2 objects can not exist in the same place at the same time.

[alantf]

Originally Posted by potter3438

I couldn't get the oil screen out because the screws are stripped,

Do you mean that "the threads" are stripped? If so, what's holding the screen onto the bike? Might be an idea to let him look at that, at the same time. :??:

[bonehead]

Can't figure that one out. Just looked at how my screen housing is attached to the engine and it has hex head bolts. Maybe he meant rounded off instead of stripped?

[potter3438]

However had my bike before me must have put different screws in then. They are two phillips screws, and the ends of the screws are stripped. I will get it looked at when I bring it back out in the spring.

[alantf]

Originally Posted by potter3438

They are two phillips screws, and the ends of the screws are stripped.

I still don't get it! Perhaps you could explain what you mean by STRIPPED. Stripped is a technical term - usually applied to the threads. I'm not condemming you for not using the correct term (all of us have to start learning sometime ) but you're confusing me. Do you mean that someone has buggered up the ends of the screws by using the wrong screwdriver, or do you mean something completely different? Not being picky, just trying to find what EXACTLY you mean. :2tup:

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by alantf

.....just trying to find what EXACTLY you mean. :2tup:

Even stranger than that is the fact that THREE fasteners (bolts) hold the strainer plate in place.
I fear that if he has damaged only TWO Phillips heads.......he is trying to get the wrong thing loose !! :??:

Or......considering your response in the other thread.....maybe you would prefer that I stop posting here altogether ???

[alantf]

Originally Posted by Easy Rider

maybe you would prefer that I stop posting here altogether ???

NO - This is a perfectly polite reply to a question. You chipped in with valuable information that others (including myself) hadn't realised.

It's just when you start ranting, in reply to some genuine question from somebody with little mechanical knowledge, that you get people's backs up. Stay chilled out, & everybody's happy with you. Your knowledge is really helpful - it's just the way you put it across sometimes.

C'mon easy - don't think that your attitude is 100% right, & everyone else is wrong. CHILL OUT MAN! :2tup:

[5th_bike]

Just to clear things up, the oil sump filter where your nut is supposed to be, is at the bottom of the engine, and the oil drain plug is in the middle of its cover. You can access the oil sump filter it by loosening the three bolts of its cover. Be careful.

[potter3438]

On my bike there are two Phillips head screws that hold my oil screen in place. The top part of the screws where you put the screwdriever head onto is stripped. I cannot even turn the screw to make it loose. I did not do this but whomever had my bike last.