Fuck fuck fuck - stripped sump plug

[The Lone Rider]

I have had this happen recently... the fix I used (and it's still working well) is to simply tap the sump to the next size up. Which for me was going to an imperial size. Once tapped and fitted with a new bolt (with plumbers tape around the thread) and filled the sump with oil, and then drained it. Then put the bolt back in with a crush washer and filled all up again with oil.

Places like repco stock crush washers.. I believe they are different than just "normal washers"


Learnt most of this with the help of TWR and a bit of research online.


Further solution is not to strip it again...

Really bad damage you will either have to replace the sump, or remove it and see if you can weld up the hold, then drill and tap it.

[OutForADuck]

dude sorry to hear that...

Vifferman is onto it... you need a helicoil and someone that knows what they are doing. The leak you have had up until now is probably related to a cross thread anyway, so you might find that a new washer and helicoil will fix that along the way.

If you go down the fix in place and flush route, just make sure you also change the oil after a very short run, the Kero is hard to completely remove first time and will thin the first oil you put through.

Sorry to hear your off the road dude.... but not a big one to fix in the great scheme of things.

[crazyhorse]

Striped my sump plug today.

......Decide to change oil filter and oil.

I had this happen to me - decided to do it myself under the guidance of my personal instructor (yeah right), and someone had already had a problem with it in the past. So here I was, no way to fix it at home, so had to trailer it to the bike shop next available working day and had a helicoil installed. So yip, I know all about it going wrong

[Katman]

And when you helicoil the sump make sure you drill it at precisely the right angle. (If you do it in place you will most likely need the bike lying right over on it's side).

Get the drilling process even a few degrees out and you will end up with a constantly leaking plug.

[Danae]

Next time lie down next to the bike when removing the plug. It gets your orientations right so you can more easily see which way to turn the spanner

[vindy500]

Or use a socket set on the L setting

[crazyhorse]

Next time lie down next to the bike when removing the plug. It gets your orientations right so you can more easily see which way to turn the spanner

Why not turn the bike upside down - make it much easier to work on

[p.dath]

And when you helicoil the sump make sure you drill it at precisely the right angle. (If you do it in place you will most likely need the bike lying right over on it's side).

Get the drilling process even a few degrees out and you will end up with a constantly leaking plug.

I think your comments have convinced me not to do the Helicoil myself. I suspect that each time it isn't done right it will get much harder to fix properly next time.

[Pussy]

Why not turn the bike upside down - make it much easier to work on

If you do that, you won't even have to remove the sump plug... just drain the oil from the filler cap... sorted!

[YellowDog]

Hey Dath Vader, I think you got away very cheaply from your blonde moment.

[crazyhorse]

If you do that, you won't even have to remove the sump plug... just drain the oil from the filler cap... sorted!

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking too LOL.............

[FROSTY:Me]

Dude hangon DONT panic.The sump plug has a lot of threads as does the sump. loss of say half a thread isn't the end of the world. You MAY get a replacement sump plug. from waitamata hydraulics, supersheep auto's or Ripco. or action wreckers may have one.bring the darn thing over here I might have one in one of my boxs of bits.
I'm not saying you WON"T need to do ahelicoil Im saying you may not. Bring the plug over here and let me have a looksee for ya.

[p.dath]

Dude hangon DONT panic.The sump plug has a lot of threads as does the sump. loss of say half a thread isn't the end of the world. You MAY get a replacement sump plug. from waitamata hydraulics, supersheep auto's or Ripco. or action wreckers may have one.bring the darn thing over here I might have one in one of my boxs of bits.
I'm not saying you WON"T need to do ahelicoil Im saying you may not. Bring the plug over here and let me have a looksee for ya.

I'll take a pictuire later on. I'd say a small number of the threads on the plug are completely gone, and I'd say a chunk of them a sheared off (not as "high" you might say above the bottom of the thread that they used to be).

[dipshit]

Or use a socket set on the L setting

That's what I always do for sump bungs. A ratchet set to loosen so you can't go wrong. And a torque wrench for doing it up again.

[Pussy]

And a torque wrench for doing it up again.

Yep 16.5 ft/lbs (or 23nm) for Suzuki ones....