I have now suffered the same fate of some of you in here. I have been trying to do my own work to learn more and last week when changing the oil with a friends help i stripped the thread on the oil pan. I specifically asked "do i tighten this a much as i can" and it went pear shaped after that. I tried using teflon tape on the sump bolt which worked for 48 hours or so but it's leaking worse than ever now. Anyone know where i could get a helicoil from? Are they complicated to install? Thanks all
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Sorry to hear mate. I have done many sump helicoil jobs. You can buy a helicoil kit from Repco. That should come with around 6 helicoils and the tool to install them. Take in the sump plug and they should be able to match a kit up with the thread from the sump plug. You will also need a tap to suit the helicoil and also the correct drill bit to drill out the old thread in the sump. Some kits come with the correct drill bit and tap in the kit too. That makes life easy. They have instructions in the helicoil kit telling you how to install. Very easy to do. Just make sure when you drill, you hold the drill realitively straight. After the job is done, you may want to pour a little engine oil, with the plug removed to try and get rid of some of the metal shavings around the plug hole. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Heres a link with a few pics to give you the gist of how its done. Very easy. http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.britishfasteners.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000003/permacoil.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.britishfasteners.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc%3FScreen%3DCTGY%26Category_Code%3D340&h=277&w=393&sz=22&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=1F3OlkFNNLJsNM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhelicoils%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
Pap your a champ thanks for the suggestions This is the leaky bastard. Apparently the sump is too thin to be helicoiled, and the quote to fix it would be $1000 with a new pan and labour. Ive already wasted 7 litres of fully syn oil. Costly mistake by myself http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e349/al9999/latestk2.jpg
Ouch, a GSXR? Nice bike, sorry about your problem. Them sumps may be a little too thin on them mate. Im not sure sorry. You probably should just drop the sump and get it fixed. Take it to a good fabrication shop, maybe even head/engine machine shop and get them to weld a nut on the inside of the pan, to suit a new sump plug to wind in. Have done that a few times also. Not on road bikes though sorry. That involves taking off the sump, yes, but it may save you alot of money mate?
