oil filler cap

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!

Originally Posted by SVeeedy Gonzales

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

Tossers

[IanG]

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

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

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

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.

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

might be a good idea too use some cleaner aswell

Originally Posted by andy owen

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

All I can say is well spotted mate

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.

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