Some of you might know i’ve recently been buying up the parts I need to carry out a service on my 2001 CBR.
I came across something I’d never seen or heard of before:
A magnetic sump plug! Apparently as the oil washes over it it catches minute microns of steel shavings which would otherwise cause havoc - now im no expert but wasnt the oil filter supposed to do that?
Besides, the sump plug is the same as a normal one but with a magnet on top - errrrmmmmmm how solid is that magnet on there? what if that falls off!!!
Anyone trust these things or has any experience of them?
If the shavings are in the sump then their next journey will be via the oil strainer into the oil pump and then into the engine, the oil filter is usually a circuit after the oil pump, returning back to the sump.
If you can get a magnetic sump plug then it would be a good idea.
Magnetic sump plugs are nothing more than a steel sump plug that has been magnetized… nothing is stuck on it’s one piece. The same as a magnetic screwdriver is just a normal screwdriver thats been swiped on a magnet.
How do you anodize steel SMF? You anodize aluminuim.
You will be amazed at the size of the slivers that you will find from a gearbox…they aint microns:w00t:
Yeah - i ordered a new washer along with the other stuff from David silver spares - however, I was expecting the thing to be copper colour and collapsable. Mine doesnt look like that - but like this - is this ok? If you look closely it looks like its made of two metals placed together!
PS - with 46000 miles on her - i think its a bit late in the day to start putting damage limitation devices on her! lol besides, it may turn out that she already has one fitted!