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splodge

Joined May 2012
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Bishop's Stortford, Herts, England
Did an oil and filter change at 40 hours, found shrapnel on the sump plug.
What do you think, gears?

What would anyone suggest I do please?
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Hej.
MHO is drive it and change oil every 15-20 h depending how hard you drive it.
Thats looks normal to me, but keep the oilchanges more often than 40h.
Regards
Jampe
 
Like Jampe said, that looks normal, even I would said for 40 hours perfect.
But try to change oil more offen...10 hours...
 
splodge said:
Ninety plus views and not one comment?
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**Lurkers**

Yes, it's from the gears. My plug looked like that once. I was trying to shift without the clutch. I've since figured out how to preload the shifter and will upshift without the clutch at times. I think downshifting w/o clutch was causing it. Haven't seen any since.
 
Thank you.
Sorry to sound confusing, when I said 40 hours, that is what it is now. Last change was when I picked it up at 23 hours.

Keep riding and change the oil every 15 hours then.
 
Really?

Those three little slivers, pretty common stuff that comes out of a motor for the first 50 hours or so. No big deal IMO.
 
I'm definitely no bike mechanic but FYI - here's the oil plug from my 2012 FE570 after 4 hours (sorry abt the poor focus). Im just about to do the 12 hour change, will post another pic of plug then. My 2009 BMW G450X, also had bits of metal in the drained oil for the last 170 hours/4000klm/15 oil changes since rebuild (no magnetic plug so hard to compare) and its still going ok using very little oil. For the more mechanically minded out there - could some of this metal be from the clutch mech as this is a continually wearing component?

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Idle said:
I've since figured out how to preload the shifter and will upshift without the clutch at times.
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How do you preload the shifter so you can upshift without the clutch?

By the way here is my oil drain plug from my first oil change when I first got the bike from the previous owner:
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I feel so much better having seen that.

It is going in for a FI filter mod and a valve check Monday.
 
splodge said:
I feel so much better having seen that.

It is going in for a FI filter mod and a valve check Monday.
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Might be smart :) I hope it will look better the next time I'm changing oil, because that did not look good.
 
cypher said:
not ridden many modern 4 st bikes then.
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Mate I've rode them more times than your dad rode your mum AND I probably have more spanner time under my belt than you where the internal combustion engine is concerned :wink:

What ever way you dress it up- those iddy biddy bits of steel belong somewhere, and they are NOT listed in the husaberg spares catalogue :roll:

Bergs are made of cheese mate, just face it :mrgreen: I think they are only manufactured to make the KTM's appear more reliable :lol: Kind of like 'Tesco's value range'
 
yes that is normal. unfortunately the Husaberg rubs against things inside....

regards

Taffy
 

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