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Old 19-04-11, 07:31 PM   #4
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Default Re: "It is tight", sump bolt :- Don't

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Originally Posted by timwilky View Post
So whilst I was out tonight the ZX10 owner across the road has paid a visit, "have I got a bolt".

So popped over, his sump bolt is leaking and looks a bit grollied. No, but I give him a copper washer and he starts to fit the bolt with a huge nasty socket and bar. "It feels a bit tight" he says. I should have screamed stop, but credited him with a bit of nouce.

"It keeps turning" is his next comment. So it took me 5 minutes to get it out, coated in alloy shreds, mirror under and sump threads gone.

So I have told him to get it lifted and helicoiled. He is going to talk to his brother in law in the morning. Thank god I am away on a course.

Question, why are some people so ham fisted?.
my mates just done the same thing to his TL cant understand why cus hes had it years and changed the oil loads of times, he cant understand either? just that bit too tight eh.
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