This is a public service announcement for anyone who attempts to change their crush washer (as I did earlier today).
If your crush washer is anything like my old one, it will be stuck onto the oil bolt (bung) so tightly that no amount of elbow grease or manipulation with pliers or knives will remove it from the bolt. (I had one half-shredded and it still wouldnt budge even though i was using my legs to tug on it).
The best and easiest thing to do (and what I should have done first) is follow dhgeyer's plan of action (http://www.gstwins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=202685&highlight=#202685) for crush washer removal.
1. Get a small cold chisel (i.e. *not* a wood chisel (which is made out of metal, but meant to be used on wood)
2. Get a hammer
3. Lay the bolt (oil bung) on its head and chisel the crush washer straight down in four places (top, bottom, left, right). Only tap the hammer hard enough to chisel through the aluminum crush washer
4. By time you are done, the crush washer should already have fallen off.
Hey, that's pretty good.
Ill remember that, and add it to my short omg-wtf-this-piece-of-crap-wont-come-off tool list.
hammer
Vice-grips
wd40 (or knockoff)
smacking
screwdriver
chisel
The best I have done was trying to get header bolts out of a header, vice grips put on by jumping on them, and then jump on the whole thing. Kinda like \_/ where the slants are vice grips and the underline is the thing. Then you flip the whole thing over and jump.
Although I might end up trying the screwdriver as a chisel :mrgreen:
i would reccomend a real chisel. I did try workign it off with a very small flathead with no results for my effort.
Besides, a small cold chisel will have a nice sharp point... and they cost under $5.