hello all, whilst putting the oil filter cover back on my 2010 tenere i've over tightened the bleed screw and stripped the thread of the housing, now there is a slight oil leak as i can't get the correct torque on the bleed screw. has anyone got any ideas how i can fix this please?

You have a couple of options;

1) replace the cover -> http://www.cmsnl.com/search/partnumb...spbpmodelcode=


Or,

2) re-tap the hole -> http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/se...ategory/page/1

I can't remember the size, but if you are buying a repair kit, it's probably going to cost you more than a new cover !


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Or - you could get a 2nd hand cover, it's the same part for the XT600 & Xt660 motors

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its not the cover that's the problem, the bolt screws into the engine block, as far as i can tell

There are 4 bolts, three that fix the cover to the engine case, and one on the top that is the bleed screw.

Three run in horizontal, one vertical - is it one of the three, or the vertical one on the top of the cover ?

The red arrow shows the bleed screw:




Or, do you mean the three mounting bolts ?

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You may use Teflontape on the bad tread, until you get a replacement.

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The screw/bolt in question is the bottom of the 3 mounting bolts that is also the drain bolt, the bolt is fine but the thread it screws into is the one that's stripped. does anyone know if i could use a longer bolt if there is more thread than normally used in the housing? hope that makes sense

Yep ive just gone to do a oil change and the threads came out with the bolt so I must of been a plonker and over tightend it last time ....... anyway theres no thread left whatsoever any ideas? How did you sort it ?

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What 66T said. Get a helicoil and the jobs done...too easy. In future go easy on those three bolts, they're easily stripped.

Cheers bud jobs sorted retapped it to m8 then when I tried to flush the swarf out I realised its actualy hollow and goes into the engine so then I stripped the crancase off got rid of the swarf and put it all back together again and its all fine . Thanks for replying

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I did the same thing on another thread and stuck a slightly longer bolt in and everything was okay. Then after a while got it tapped for ten or something quid. But didn't need to.