Yamaha R6 sump plug bolt. HELP!

**LBD** · 2nd April 2009, 22:14

Git your vice grip out at wrestle the damn thing out.
Take the plug, a spanner and a measuring device (verniers or such and head for the bikeshops, repco,s Knackers yard and find a similar plug 1 to 2 mm larger diameter.
Take said new plug to engineers supplys shop and buy intermediate tap to suit.
Go home...
Get a block of lard or dripping and start to shove it in the hole,( when cold) it will form a dam to catch the swarf.
Tap the hole with the new tap...or get a fitter to do it if you are not confident.

Hold cigrette lighter to hole with bike upright and butter or dripping will melt and swarf will fall out.

Flush with a little new oil.

Fit new plug and bingo....

**Cr1MiNaL** · 8th April 2009, 21:29

Sooo... last week I fixed the biek !! Got the sump heli coiled by Holeshot. Changed the oil and filter, changed the spark plugs and put it all back together again... She's running sooooo smooooove ! Cheers everyone.

**TOTO** · 8th April 2009, 22:03

lets see you wheelie the harbour bridge now

**DarkLord** · 8th April 2009, 22:28

Yeah... don't be like that jackass who had the R6 in Mike's workshop with the blown engine.... apparently he had been spending so much time on one wheel the oil drained out of his cylinders and the engine blew up :P

**sinfull** · 8th April 2009, 22:36

Originally Posted by YamahaR64Life

Sooo... last week I fixed the biek !! Got the sump heli coiled by Holeshot. Changed the oil and filter, changed the spark plugs and put it all back together again... She's running sooooo smooooove ! Cheers everyone.

Next time ya do an oil change lay on yr back when you undo the sump plug bro !

**rok-the-boat** · 12th April 2009, 22:29

Good luck with sorting it, but seriously, if you don't know which way to undo a bolt, a helicoil is beyond you. Get it done properly.

**Cr1MiNaL** · 12th April 2009, 22:34

Not many people on here like to read the full thread huh? Call me a numbscull but atleast I'm literate :P

**Scouse** · 12th April 2009, 23:02

Originally Posted by YamahaR64Life

Not many people on here like to read the full thread huh? Call me a numbscull but atleast I'm literate :P

And have nice hair

**Scouse** · 12th April 2009, 23:04

Originally Posted by Scouse

And have nice hair

Thats brushed to within an inch of it's life every 5 minutes

**Ixion** · 12th April 2009, 23:05

Priddy white bootees , too. N a priddy mouf, n'all.

**Cr1MiNaL** · 12th April 2009, 23:19

WTF lol LIES I tell you all LIES !!

**Gubb** · 13th April 2009, 10:26

Originally Posted by YamahaR64Life

Call me a numbscull but atleast I'm literate :P

NumbsKull.

**Pixie** · 14th April 2009, 08:42

Originally Posted by DarkLord

Yeah... don't be like that jackass who had the R6 in Mike's workshop with the blown engine.... apparently he had been spending so much time on one wheel the oil drained out of his cylinders and the engine blew up :P

Are you sure the oil drained out of his cylinders ?