oil filler cap

[SVeeedy Gonzales]

Grrr - mine's been parked at work for a few days and someone's nicked the oil filler cap...

Are they universal - or is it another SV or Suzuki owner I'm looking at? Why do people do stuff like this??

Anyone got part numbers/size details?

Ta!

[Cloggsy]

Grrr - mine's been parked at work for a few days and someone's nicked the oil filler cap...

:shock: Tossers :roll:

[IanG]

You might want to check theres no crap been put in!

[SVeeedy Gonzales]

It all looks fine, no signs of anything being put in there (though now I'm slightly paranoid!)... suspect it's just someone who lost their cap and decided to nick mine. It seems that it's a Suzuki cap, so possibly a Suzi thief. One SV and 2 bandits nearby but the caps are not the ones I'm after. It's that it could have been like that for most of the 10 days it's been sitting there. Luckily it's under a walkway type thing so not much chance of rain, etc. getting in, but still irritating.

Doubt I'll find the person who did it, which doesn't make it any better... but lucky that I have machines at work and just knocked a replacement up. Will be ordering one (or two!) from the local suzi dealer . Shame as it's the 2nd time the bike's been in work since my big crash last year (used to commute every day) and it doesn't instill biker cameraderie when people have bits of your bike away when you're not looking :roll:

The thread is an M20 metric fine thread (1.5mm pitch instead of the 1.25mm pitch on normal, coarse metric threads).

I hate people screwing with my stuff. Especially when I don't even get the luxury of catching them at it :evil:

[thor]

I once had someone nick a brake wire collar off my push bike. Got a way down the road before finding out that the front brake wasn't working! Had to go to about 6 bike shops before finding a new one.

[andy owen]

I would dump the oil and put fresh in just in case the prat has spiked the oil.

[Diveboy]

might be a good idea too use some cleaner aswell

[TC3]

I would dump the oil and put fresh in just in case the prat has spiked the oil.

might be an idea but then again if someone wanted to do that why would they not replace the oil cap rather than give the game away

[Well Oiled]

All I can say is well spotted mate =D>

I heard that if you give it some welly, the flinging around of the oil can lead to it being lost fairly quickly through an open filler hole (though that did surprise me). If that's the case your keen observation might have saved you a lot of expense. I'd have probably ridden off none the wiser.

[Last Action Pimp]

yeah if you run the bike without the oil cap it goes everwhere just ask my dad

[Sid Squid]

The thread is an M20 metric fine thread (1.5mm pitch instead of the 1.25mm pitch on normal, coarse metric threads.

Err...what did you mean there? 1.5 is coarser than 1.25.

All I can say is well spotted mate =D>

I heard that if you give it some welly, the flinging around of the oil can lead to it being lost fairly quickly through an open filler hole (though that did surprise me). If that's the case your keen observation might have saved you a lot of expense. I'd have probably ridden off none the wiser.

You'd have noticed it wasn't there soon, really very very soon.
V-twin thus loadsa crankcase pumping + the clutch basket whirring around right under the filler hole = oil flying around all over your leg/boot/everything else too.

[Well Oiled]

The thread is an M20 metric fine thread (1.5mm pitch instead of the 1.25mm pitch on normal, coarse metric threads.

Err...what did you mean there? 1.5 is coarser than 1.25.

All I can say is well spotted mate =D>

I heard that if you give it some welly, the flinging around of the oil can lead to it being lost fairly quickly through an open filler hole (though that did surprise me). If that's the case your keen observation might have saved you a lot of expense. I'd have probably ridden off none the wiser.

You'd have noticed it wasn't there soon, really very very soon.
V-twin thus loadsa crankcase pumping + the clutch basket whirring around right under the filler hole = oil flying around all over your leg/boot/everything else too.

If I recall correctly, think it might have been Wheelnut who didn't !! Cost him (or rather the dealer as they had just serviced it and left the cap off) an engine. Was it you who was telling me that Malc ??

[SVeeedy Gonzales]

Ooer - think I mixed up or wrote down the wrong pitch - will check it tomorrow to make sure I have the right info... just wrote down the figures from my trusty book... or at least I thought I had :oops:

The bike is just over 4000 miles and so I'm changing the oil this weekend anyway. It was fine on the 40 miles back home. Well, the tyres weren't much fun but the rest of the bike, temperature, etc. were fine, and the oil doesn't appear to be contaminated in the sightglass. Most likely some moisture in there and a little bit of dirt or dust.

They could have at least bee courteous and stuck a rag over it and left a note saying "sorry my need was greater than yours, but I didn't want to knacker your bike!" That would have made it, oooh, about 0.01% better. Maybe.

Luckily I'm a bit excessive about checking the bike over before I ride it... though it's hard to miss a hole the size of a 10p piece, and I was doing the air filter out at the time.

[SVeeedy Gonzales]

Yep, the SV oil cap (at least on the K4 pointy) is an M20 fine, 1.5mm pitch.

M20 coarse is 2.5mm pitch, the 1.25 pitch was for, ahem, something else... :twisted: