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  1. N

    Found some brass / gold looking flakes on my oil screen

    2006 FS 650C Engine has 46 hours and 1706 miles... I changed the oil about 2 hours ago and all was clean... I noticed my base gasket was starting to leak, so I just decided to drain the oil for the hell of it... I found some small flakes on the screen... Any cause for alarm, and is the...
  2. J

    brass thing fallen out of the fork cap?

    hey, just changing the fork spring on an 09 450 and when removing the cap it left a brass threaded thing with a slot in it on top of the damping rod? upon trying to re thread it into the cap it come against the male part of the clicker and becomes a pig? any tips? and is it right that it...
  3. K2Berg

    Uh, oh! Shiny brass looking squares on filters

    2008 FE650 with about 160 hours, mostly ridden ripping through city. Did my oil change and filter cleaning (Scotts metal filter) and found tiny shiny squares that looked brass in color not chrome. Maybe I'm color blind but they did not look chrome to me. I did a search and found the thread...