Dropped the sump today

[vindex1963]

I was doing an oil change and decided to drop the pan and clean the screens. I've had a gasket for a while and today I opened it up. I'm not the original owner so I didn't know if this had ever been done. The screens look pretty good with no metal and what looked like thread locker, hopefully this is a one and done and I won't need to do it again.

 

[RockOn]

Good idea but one I have thus far been too lazy to do. I have put 8K on my '06 Classic (30K miles now)since I bought it a few years ago and like you have no real clue what maintenance has been done other than what I have done. Recently removed my rear wheel for a tire change. Thanks to videos produced by members that went very well and local tire changer only charged 45 bucks to swap to a new Bridgestone. Recently bought an '08 Touring model and it too will be due for a rear tire in a couple thousand miles. That can't be any harder than the Classic......I hope.

 

[vindex1963]

Good idea but one I have thus far been too lazy to do. I have put 8K on my '06 Classic (30K miles now)since I bought it a few years ago and like you have no real clue what maintenance has been done other than what I have done. Recently removed my rear wheel for a tire change. Thanks to videos produced by members that went very well and local tire changer only charged 45 bucks to swap to a new Bridgestone. Recently bought an '08 Touring model and it too will be due for a rear tire in a couple thousand miles. That can't be any harder than the Classic......I hope.

I thought changing the rear tire on mine was a total b!tch.

I won't drop the pan again unless there's a failure inside the motor like bearings.

 

[RockOn]

Well, at my age, 73, I have to research the hell out of every move I make. The crucial key for me was using my floor jack under the rear tire in addition to my bike lift.
Because I worry about everything, like the bike losing balance and falling off the lift, I installed 4 eyebolts in my garage ceiling and connected 4 ratchet straps to them and to the bike, just to be sure my wife would not discover my rotting corpse squashed flat under the bike.

 

[vindex1963]

I ratchet strapped mine to the ceiling also for the same reason, my wife wouldn't notice me gone for hours.....

 

[scot in exile]

Well, at my age, 73, I have to research the hell out of every move I make. The crucial key for me was using my floor jack under the rear tire in addition to my bike lift.
Because I worry about everything, like the bike losing balance and falling off the lift, I installed 4 eyebolts in my garage ceiling and connected 4 ratchet straps to them and to the bike, just to be sure my wife would not discover my rotting corpse squashed flat under the bike.

If she does can I have the bike

 

[vindex1963]

I also pulled the crankshaft position sensor and cleaned the crud off the end. Tiny bit of stuff.

 

[Mike Rocket]

I was doing an oil change and decided to drop the pan and clean the screens. I've had a gasket for a while and today I opened it up. I'm not the original owner so I didn't know if this had ever been done. The screens look pretty good with no metal and what looked like thread locker, hopefully this is a one and done and I won't need to do it again.

I dropped my sump last year on my 2014 roadster just to look in the sump and clean it and there was only what looked like small bits of rubber on the screens, no metal swarf.
Good news on that bike i am thinking. I am assuming it was in there from when it was built in the factory . I also changed the oil tank check valve as the oil tank drains to the sump in 4 days but it made no difference. It still drains down that quickly. annoying really but it seems fairly common to drain down when parked up.

 

[vindex1963]

"no metal swarf. Good news on that bike i am thinking. I am assuming it was in there from when it was built in the factory . ."

I was thinking the same thing, happy there were no metal pieces.