I seem to be the one willing to admit my inabilities so here goes another one. The weather here in Oklahoma is now approaching 100 degrees. So I thought if I ever want to ride in the middle of the day and not between 2 am and 4 am, I ought to change back to 60 weight oil for the summer. The old toothless parts guy at the local harley shop recommends using 90 gear oil since it is so "dang blasted hot". I always ignore him anyway. Got home. assessed the situation. I have always managed to spill a little oil when I change oil in the knuckle so this time I was striving to have a "no spill" oil change. I set up a funnel with a cardboard tube from the bottom of the funnel to the middle of my plastic tub. I was proud of myself for devising this system and knew it was the way to go. I opened the drain plug on the bottom of the stock oil tank. Dropped the drain plug splattering oil everywhere. I looked down and it was at that time that I realized the drain hole in the tank was allowing more oil out than the funnel drain hole was. Oil quickly overfilled the funnel and spilled out over the top down the top of my tranny along the frame bottom and out all over the newly painted workshop floor. Looked like the exxon valdez dumped its load in my workshop. Lesson learned...use a bigger funnel and no matter how hard you try you WILL spill some oil.
Jim
Jim
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