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The good fellas at KTM Newcastle were kind enough to lend me a spark plug tool since they didn’t have one they could sell to me so I went at it tonight. If you guys got to see my current work shed you’d laugh your arses off but its what I’ve got at the moment so I have to laugh. Its wide enough to get the bike in and just close the door but you couldn’t switch sides then and theres enough room to squat down on either side of the bike but that’s really tight.
Anyway so I pulled the plug and had already pulled the carby drain out then I drained the oil. I gave the starter button a hit and my arm was reached across the bike to get to the button so when the spray of water came out the spark plug hole it gave me a fair surprise
I kicked it a couple of times letting the water spray out then topped the oil back up and kicked it a few more but could here some swishing so I decided to pull the exhaust off. I’ve taken the exhaust off before so there wasn’t too much trouble there and when I got it off the header had about a cup of water in it still. With that off I gave the button a press for a while and used some tissue paper to absorb any water misting out still.
I figured it was time to give it a go since I wanted to take the spark plug tool back tomorrow so I put the plug back in and put the exhaust and rear shock back on and attached the fuel. It took a few kicks but it turned over then konked when I turned the choke off. I was still paranoid so I pulled the plug back out and took a look at it then sprayed some wd40 on it and into the hole. Since the air filter was off I decided to leave the choke on and after a lot more kicks I got it going and it sounded good so I shut it down. I took a look at the oil sight window and it was milky so I packed everything up then dropped the oil again and now I’ve left it to drain over night.
I took a look at the oil from the first dump and it had a bit of shit in it and when I first got the bolt off it pissed out water. I’ll try and find some cheaper oil tomorrow so I can do a few changes without it costing me a fortune throwing away the good motul stuff.
Has anyone heard of “cleaning oil”?
Austblue wrote:
Quote:I changed my oil yesterday and had a “moment” tightening it back up as it seemed to get tight and then too easy and I thought I’d stripped it! I backed it out cleaned the thread and then gently tightened it again without drama but I did notice a few goosebumps and had to wipe the sweaty palms!It turns out that I did strip the thread. After the ride on the weekend I noticed that there was a little oil leaking and thought I hadn’t tightened it enough but it wasn’t the case. I was very cautious so I think maybe it was damaged previously. Either way I think I’m going to have to get myself a torque wrench because I’ll be too paranoid now.
If anyone would like to recommend one it’d be appreciated otherwise I’ll just take a look around.
FWIW mine is playing up already
I’ll have to give them an email but on the weekend it only filmed 2-5s at a time and now the photo button doesn’t seem to work.Ok not off to a good start – I just googled to find out what size spark plug socket I’d need and it seems that you need to have KTM hard parts thin walled socket to get to it
