Newrider08
03-11-2009, 08:27 PM
any of you ever break your oil tank drain tube?
I will tell you what NOT to do because the guy I got the 2002 400ex from did just this.
If you lose your rubber washer that is between the drain bolt and tank DONT USE JB WELD
Yeah seems obvious right lol, the jerk did this and I went to change the oil and the whole drain neck broke off of the oil tank.
I was lucky enough to find a good used tank on ebay for 60 bucks with the lines still attached.
It actually got me motivated to do a couple other things though like a new air filter, polishing some aluminum parts and doing a deep engine cleaning, adjusting my valves, new spark plug, touching up some frame paint, and OH YEAH changed out my painted black plastics for a nice set of OEM Honda Yellow Plastics with Carbon Fiber Graphics.
A friend put some kind of 2 stage epoxy on my broken oil tank to fix it so now I think I will grind that crap off and get a new neck welded back on ( got a neck from a smashed junkyard 400ex oil tank. SO that way I have a spare in case something happens to my new tank.
All in all it was a good lesson and a good reason to do alot of maintenance things that should hold me over for a while.
I will tell you what NOT to do because the guy I got the 2002 400ex from did just this.
If you lose your rubber washer that is between the drain bolt and tank DONT USE JB WELD
Yeah seems obvious right lol, the jerk did this and I went to change the oil and the whole drain neck broke off of the oil tank.
I was lucky enough to find a good used tank on ebay for 60 bucks with the lines still attached.
It actually got me motivated to do a couple other things though like a new air filter, polishing some aluminum parts and doing a deep engine cleaning, adjusting my valves, new spark plug, touching up some frame paint, and OH YEAH changed out my painted black plastics for a nice set of OEM Honda Yellow Plastics with Carbon Fiber Graphics.
A friend put some kind of 2 stage epoxy on my broken oil tank to fix it so now I think I will grind that crap off and get a new neck welded back on ( got a neck from a smashed junkyard 400ex oil tank. SO that way I have a spare in case something happens to my new tank.
All in all it was a good lesson and a good reason to do alot of maintenance things that should hold me over for a while.