Oil change from hell!

[chico4313]

ok, so today i was giving my bike an oil change, but the o ring the shop gave me slipped off when i put the cap back on and it was leaking, so i thought i needed to tighten it to stop it. (lol irony is i do oil changes on toyota's all day for a job) Needless to say i snapped the thread, and got mad  , not to mention that i bent the other two. luckily Tay, co-worker, knows bikes and helped me, but made me do all the work, getting them threads out of the damn oil filter area are hard as hell!! well, i had to buy another o ring to put on and the shop made me buy another filter . and this one had a dent in it, so it leaked also. so i just put the original one on there and it was fine. yeah, after a 7 hour oil change! but you live and you learn , luckily the shop had new threads to replace the ones i broke.

[galahs]

The oil filter on gs's is a constant pain for many people.

If only had a spin on filter like most cars 

[ducati_nolan]

Yeah it's a pain. Even when it goes smothly, It'll eventually leak, so you tighten it just a little, then break a stud  Actually the broken stud part hasn't happened to me but you know. I've wanted to safety wire the thing, to keep it from dumping oil and making me crash and/or blow the engine but I didn't think it would work with the nuts, but I've seen it done.....next oil change.

Just about every other new bike seems to have a spin on, and they re did the engine a little on the new models anyways for the oil cooler, why not make it a spin on? Oh well my bitching won't help anything.

[MarkusN]

Dunno about a skimpy oil filter case down there in the spray of the front wheel. I'm just guessing, but I think a spin-on should be in a better protected place than that.

[Yankee Punker]

  Get yourself a little tube of tack & seal, its used to hold gaskets in place during assembly and works great to hold those O-rings in place too,  just spread a very-very little bit on the cover side of the ring. I learned this along time ago, and it sure helps from getting 
  One of my other oil change tricks that's not on many, well really none of the oil change guides I've seen around is to thoroughly wash around the filter cover area, and underneath by the drain before doing the oil change. It's sort of common sense after you've done a few oil changes on a GS, but if your looking toward a guide for help on your first oil change I think that should be the first step on there.

[jeast]

u can also use grease around the seal, never had a leak.