HELP! A small screw MIGHT have fallen into the oil filler hole on my 2010 FLHX Glide
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Thanks all for the advice...
Gonna go out and work the bike over again...pull the battery box and all. Cannot freakin believe the misfortune here especially cause I'm always so careful...apparently not careful enough this time. I did drive the bike about 6 miles to go get some new oil then changed the oil. Didn't see any metal shavings in the oil after the ride to lead me to believe it had been chewed up by any gears. My thought was the worst case scenario being that the screw (if its even in there) somehow blocks the flow of oil through the pump. Of course, if that things gets chewed up in a gear...the damage could be considerably worse as it would make it through the mesh oil pump screen.
Wow...what a way to ruin a few days of me life. I just cant IMAGINE that freakin screw could have made it into that oil filler hole!!! I'll keep ya posted!
Gonna go out and work the bike over again...pull the battery box and all. Cannot freakin believe the misfortune here especially cause I'm always so careful...apparently not careful enough this time. I did drive the bike about 6 miles to go get some new oil then changed the oil. Didn't see any metal shavings in the oil after the ride to lead me to believe it had been chewed up by any gears. My thought was the worst case scenario being that the screw (if its even in there) somehow blocks the flow of oil through the pump. Of course, if that things gets chewed up in a gear...the damage could be considerably worse as it would make it through the mesh oil pump screen.
Wow...what a way to ruin a few days of me life. I just cant IMAGINE that freakin screw could have made it into that oil filler hole!!! I'll keep ya posted!
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Thanks all for the advice...
Gonna go out and work the bike over again...pull the battery box and all. Cannot freakin believe the misfortune here especially cause I'm always so careful...apparently not careful enough this time. I did drive the bike about 6 miles to go get some new oil then changed the oil. Didn't see any metal shavings in the oil after the ride to lead me to believe it had been chewed up by any gears. My thought was the worst case scenario being that the screw (if its even in there) somehow blocks the flow of oil through the pump. Of course, if that things gets chewed up in a gear...the damage could be considerably worse as it would make it through the mesh oil pump screen.
Wow...what a way to ruin a few days of me life. I just cant IMAGINE that freakin screw could have made it into that oil filler hole!!! I'll keep ya posted!
Gonna go out and work the bike over again...pull the battery box and all. Cannot freakin believe the misfortune here especially cause I'm always so careful...apparently not careful enough this time. I did drive the bike about 6 miles to go get some new oil then changed the oil. Didn't see any metal shavings in the oil after the ride to lead me to believe it had been chewed up by any gears. My thought was the worst case scenario being that the screw (if its even in there) somehow blocks the flow of oil through the pump. Of course, if that things gets chewed up in a gear...the damage could be considerably worse as it would make it through the mesh oil pump screen.
Wow...what a way to ruin a few days of me life. I just cant IMAGINE that freakin screw could have made it into that oil filler hole!!! I'll keep ya posted!
You must be like my brother, I swear he'd leave each bottle of oil standing upside down in the fill hole for at least 10 minutes. Wanting to get every drop of oil he paid for. And yes before I get slammed I am talking about his car.
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