mod-it
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So last Saturday I go to fill up the oil reservoir on the Viper. I take off the reservoir cap, then take the cap off my gallon jug of Yamalube...and watch as the little round sealer in the cap of the Yamalube jug falls out and flips through the air only to perfectly land in the opening for the oil reservoir. It promptly sinks like a rock. Two hour mistake my friends! Lol.
I didn't want to pull the reservoir off and half to bleed the oil pump, so I syphoned most of the oil out and then tried to figure out how to get that sucker out of there. I finally ended up using the ball puller jig for my muzzleloader ramrod to stab the darn thing. This was after removing the airbox and the oil level sensor so that I could fish a wire through that opening to locate and drag the sealer to a point that I could see it from the top of the reservoir opening. The halfway point on the oil reservoir is more narrow that the cap sealer, so it kept falling back into the bottom. After a beer break so I could quit uttering such choice words under my breath, I finally managed to stab it well enough that it stayed on through the narrow portion.
I really should have went straight to the store and bought a lottery ticket after this happened, as I figure the odds have to be pretty high for that sealer to flip and float through the air and land perfectly in the reservoir.
Note to self: Promptly remove sealer from cap of all Yamalube jugs from here on out!
I didn't want to pull the reservoir off and half to bleed the oil pump, so I syphoned most of the oil out and then tried to figure out how to get that sucker out of there. I finally ended up using the ball puller jig for my muzzleloader ramrod to stab the darn thing. This was after removing the airbox and the oil level sensor so that I could fish a wire through that opening to locate and drag the sealer to a point that I could see it from the top of the reservoir opening. The halfway point on the oil reservoir is more narrow that the cap sealer, so it kept falling back into the bottom. After a beer break so I could quit uttering such choice words under my breath, I finally managed to stab it well enough that it stayed on through the narrow portion.
I really should have went straight to the store and bought a lottery ticket after this happened, as I figure the odds have to be pretty high for that sealer to flip and float through the air and land perfectly in the reservoir.
Note to self: Promptly remove sealer from cap of all Yamalube jugs from here on out!
super1c
Super Moderator
Now that takes talent! I bet you could do that a hundred more times and not have it happen again. But i will take your advise and remove this as well!
lol that is why I open the oil a few feet away from the sled with the cap just sitting on the oil reservoir.
Had something similar in summer. I was replacing front axles and wheel bearing on a grand cherokee and had a frozen axle in hub. Once off I tossed axle towards front of vehicle and it landed squarely on my brand new air hose, cutting it in half and it whipped me in leg a few times. Now I gently set axles on ground.
PZ 1
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The first time I took the oil cap off my new Venture, it fell underneath the motor.
What seems would be a pretty easy thing to find and retrieve - was not. It took a long time to fish it out. I then put a chain on it to prevent that from happening again.
What seems would be a pretty easy thing to find and retrieve - was not. It took a long time to fish it out. I then put a chain on it to prevent that from happening again.