Oil leak

[bjcnz]

Hey guys, my day just went from fairly okayish to absolutely crap.

Took my ZXR250A to get the warrant of fitness done, sprung a slight oil leak when I pulled in so I shot back home to see if I could sort it. Was coming out of the sump plug so I tightened it up but it just got worse and worse and worse :-( I'm sure you can see where i'm going with this, the casing that the sump plug screws into was basically non existent, had split in half.

What can I do? Does this mean a new engine? - Which i'm sure would be near impossible to come by one these days.

Any help would be appreciated, and if it can't be easily fixed, I guess I should just sell it for parts?

[Owl]

I had my FZR sump repaired, as it was cracked and threads were munted. Aluminium engineer welded crack and fitted a heli-coil. New gasket and all was mint.

May depend how bad yours is, but there's always replacement parts new or used.

[NinjaNanna]

don't fear, as the wise Owl has said an aluminium welder should be able to sort it.

Or I'm sure there are plenty of belly pans lying around the wreckers - the bikes/motors are usually written off for many other things - not usually stripped sump plugs.

FWIW radiator places usually do good jobs welding alloys.

[bjcnz]

Thanks guys I'll give that a go! I think they may have to actually weld a new screw part in as I hadn't realised what was happening when I was tightening it up (pushed the bolt through and spit it, but we shall see)

Thanks guys!