Greetings all,

About that spring that pops off when you remove the oil filter cover. There was a post about glueing the thing on to the cover itself. My question will black silacone be okay to use or something else?? Please help... im changing it tonight...
thanks

 

Actually, it needs to be "glued" to the back of the compartment so it presses the filter up into the cover. I'd be leary of trying to permently affix it. Bits of silacone might pop off and gum up the works. Just have a bit of grease on hand when you do the change and use a dab of that to stick it in place until you get the filter in. Or, you can do like the KLX300 guys and lay the bike over on its left side.

 

I just stretched/expanded the base of damn thing so it fit nice and snug in the case side.

 

I used grease to hold it. Stupid design.[sm=shootshoot.gif]

 

thanks all... I will try the grease thing.....

 

Thank you all for your advise... So I didnt have any grease on hand so I just went with the lean the bike all away over on the left side trick and that worked wonderfully... thanks all... i will probably do that for the life of the bike.

 

I did the lean too.

 

This is exactly what I did with my spring it avoids getting any glue, RTV or grease gumming anything up and it works extremely well and takes all of 30 seconds (or less).

 

Ahhh, lean. Great idea.

 

If you lean the bike, doesn't gas start to come out of places?

I've already done my oil change for the first time. I agree, stupid design. I used a little bit of greese just to hold the spring in place. I was afraid that gas might pour out of the bike since it had a full tank.