Fishwishin
Active member
Ok, so this situation is entirely on me- I screwed up!
I installed a gold plug when my '23 bike had 17 miles on it. I think what happened is I seated the plug right near 18lb with my regular socket and then I put the torque wrench to it. I remember the torque wrench clicking almost immediately as soon as I put some pressure to it. I expected however to get some more rotation into the drain plug before the wrench would give me the audible indication so I did not recognize the click right away and kept going. I got to a point of realizing I was putting too much pressure on everything and stopped and backed off hoping I was not too late and had not gone too far.
I backed the plug out until I saw some free threads and started over again. This time I just brought the plug into light contact with the case and hoped it would seat to 18lb without any issues. To my surprise it did seem to seat just fine at the specified 18lbs. Since that time I have been dreading the first oil change for fear of what I would find. My concerns have only been reaffirmed by the fact I was getting very small drips coming from the plug area since the gold plug was over torqued/installed.
Today was oil change day and I knew something was wrong as soon as I started to take the plug out. It was "draggy" all the way out until the last couple of threads, I never reached a point of being finger loose. When I took the plug all the way out it was full of thread material from the case. I knew it was ruined but I tried to seat the plug again anyways- nothing, almost a free spin.
What is the fix in a situation like this and provided I do not overdo it again in the future (lesson learned!) how durable/reliable is the fix?
Thank you
I installed a gold plug when my '23 bike had 17 miles on it. I think what happened is I seated the plug right near 18lb with my regular socket and then I put the torque wrench to it. I remember the torque wrench clicking almost immediately as soon as I put some pressure to it. I expected however to get some more rotation into the drain plug before the wrench would give me the audible indication so I did not recognize the click right away and kept going. I got to a point of realizing I was putting too much pressure on everything and stopped and backed off hoping I was not too late and had not gone too far.
I backed the plug out until I saw some free threads and started over again. This time I just brought the plug into light contact with the case and hoped it would seat to 18lb without any issues. To my surprise it did seem to seat just fine at the specified 18lbs. Since that time I have been dreading the first oil change for fear of what I would find. My concerns have only been reaffirmed by the fact I was getting very small drips coming from the plug area since the gold plug was over torqued/installed.
Today was oil change day and I knew something was wrong as soon as I started to take the plug out. It was "draggy" all the way out until the last couple of threads, I never reached a point of being finger loose. When I took the plug all the way out it was full of thread material from the case. I knew it was ruined but I tried to seat the plug again anyways- nothing, almost a free spin.
What is the fix in a situation like this and provided I do not overdo it again in the future (lesson learned!) how durable/reliable is the fix?
Thank you