Hey Guys,
Hoping to get some insight here as to what I did wrong exactly. I was outside last night changing my oil for the first time on my 250. Everything was going great. I drained all the oil out of the drain plug, then removed the oil filter. The problem came when it was time to torque the various bolts back into place. I set the torque wrench to 14.5 ft.lbs, and started tightening it. I had a feeling in the back of my head that it was tightening way too tight, but I didn't pay any attention to it until the wrench gave its customary click to let me know the torque had reached its specification. So I go to turn on the bike, and all of the oil spills out from beneath the bike. Upon removing the oil filter, it appeared that there was a huge crack on the metal oil filter cap that the large O-ring sits on. I had overtighetened the thing so damn much that I cracked the cap
Looking back, I can't see what I did wrong at all and it's really frustrating me. I know I had the proper setting on the torque wrench, so why did the thing tighten so damn hard, could the wrench be defective? Also, am I supposed to be torquing the filter on the filter cap before I put it up into the bike? For example, what I did was I assembled the filter, and then without tightening the mounting bolt, I put the filter, cap, and screw up into the engine, and tightened it from there instead of on the ground outside of the bike, could that have been my problem? Am I supposed to tighten the filter and cap together outside of the bike and then gently twist it into the slot in the bike?
I'll be out of a bike until monday until the new cap comes in, hopefully someone can shed some light on this. Thanks!
Hoping to get some insight here as to what I did wrong exactly. I was outside last night changing my oil for the first time on my 250. Everything was going great. I drained all the oil out of the drain plug, then removed the oil filter. The problem came when it was time to torque the various bolts back into place. I set the torque wrench to 14.5 ft.lbs, and started tightening it. I had a feeling in the back of my head that it was tightening way too tight, but I didn't pay any attention to it until the wrench gave its customary click to let me know the torque had reached its specification. So I go to turn on the bike, and all of the oil spills out from beneath the bike. Upon removing the oil filter, it appeared that there was a huge crack on the metal oil filter cap that the large O-ring sits on. I had overtighetened the thing so damn much that I cracked the cap
Looking back, I can't see what I did wrong at all and it's really frustrating me. I know I had the proper setting on the torque wrench, so why did the thing tighten so damn hard, could the wrench be defective? Also, am I supposed to be torquing the filter on the filter cap before I put it up into the bike? For example, what I did was I assembled the filter, and then without tightening the mounting bolt, I put the filter, cap, and screw up into the engine, and tightened it from there instead of on the ground outside of the bike, could that have been my problem? Am I supposed to tighten the filter and cap together outside of the bike and then gently twist it into the slot in the bike?
I'll be out of a bike until monday until the new cap comes in, hopefully someone can shed some light on this. Thanks!