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locky


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I gave the TTR a good clean after last weeks ride, i even removed the downpipe to give it a good clean up. 

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Then i noticed this

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Iv'e ordered one of the posh aluminium plugs from Brian.

 

 



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Scotchbite wheel used to clean up the downpipe?

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Spot on Pete.

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It's lathe time or Brian the alloy plug is the way to go I gave it time to fix it's self but it just did not happen for me.............

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Fix itself?!...They do that do they?!...  Mine is still o.k, I'll be keeping my eye on it tho, expect it will perish eventually.



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I had problems even after buying the Alloy plug, this may have been may own doing when getting old one out that I scored the hole so kept weeping.

I found some LOCTITE 648 in my tool shop, and it went back in with that and has never leaked!

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My new plug came and got fitted yesterday. A bit of red rubber grease on the oring made easy fitting.

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I think some of the faults that come up on the forum are infectious - my 325 is now leaking from the old stylee plug  no

To be fair, it's the original so has lasted 11 years and that's not bad biggrin

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Yes shouldnt complain, mines been in for 10yrs

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Is this a plug for a plug plugging thread? confuse

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It must be that time of year, or the season for oil plugging.

Mine's been weeping for quite a time and reading these posts I decided to bight the bullet.

This is a bleary shot of my mess

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Before removing the rubber covered plug I cleaned the mess some

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Removing the screw lets a bit of oil out - so I re-cleaned and removed the plug - then another wipe up

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I used silicon gasket seal liberally around the stem and then pushed it home followed by the screw with the annealed copper washer

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Job's a good'un now. biggrinbiggrin

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I am impressed Martyn - you only picked the new plug up from TTR Towers a few hours ago and it's already fitted!

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Strike whilst the iron's hot.

Not really my motto but it sounds good.

There really was no point in delaying, Brian. I had everything I needed to do the job and Mrs Cubber is out on a jolly so the deed was done.

I've had a little firkle on her, got her warm and willing, and she's not dropped any drips so I'm pleased.

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I'm embarrassed. I've replaced at least four of those original rubber plugs. I think they must get clouted by bushes and sticks, or something like that. Whatever, mine used to leak often until the alloy plug started its tour of duty.



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Can anybody give me a clue how to get the aluminium plug out? Mines leaking like a bugger but working out how to remove it is baffling me as its wedged in rather firmlyand you can't dig it out like you would a rubber one.

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Nige Taylor wrote:

Can anybody give me a clue how to get the aluminium plug out? Mines leaking like a bugger but working out how to remove it is baffling me as its wedged in rather firmlyand you can't dig it out like you would a rubber one.

 What if you take out the retaining bolt, and insert a skewer in the hole. Then lever gently against the step in the plug's shaft. It might shift enough to get a hold on the plug body. You might have to fiddle around with the skewer (ie bend the end) to get it to bear where you need it to.



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Nige Taylor wrote:

Can anybody give me a clue how to get the aluminium plug out? Mines leaking like a bugger but working out how to remove it is baffling me as its wedged in rather firmlyand you can't dig it out like you would a rubber one.

Wow - that's not good Nigel! I am guessing its one of our plugs cry

The safe way to get it out is to whip the cam cover off and you can then push it out without any possibility of damaging the housing.

Send me a photo of he plug and we will get a replacement O ring in the post. Some of the early plugs I got made up had a very thin O ring and have been known to fail. The later "Ozzie" ones have a much beefier O ring.

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Yeah it must be Brian.

Ah that makes perfect sense, I will jump on that as soon as I can.

Thanks for your help, I will get it photographed once its out.

Nige

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I noticed mine has started leaking today aswel :(

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Bear with me here.............

I am a complete and utter useless mechanic and in the past have taken my bike to the garage to get anything done. This forum convinced me to get a TTR just because of the sheer amount of knowledge here and the fact that I can find pictures on how to do anything!

Today for the first time in my 43 years I took the head off a bike (yes I know!) something I wouldn't have dreamed of previously. I then removed the plug (pushing it out with an small screwdriver) to find it was an original one but where Brian had sprayed the engine the plug had a coat of paint too. So I didn't need to take the head off anyway, but I know I can do it now, and I now know what the inside of my engine looks like!

So thanks to Brian, and everyone who shares info, for helping me out.

Now to order a new plug.



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That's heartening to read Nigel!

I have always thought that the TTR250 is a home mechanics dream. An air-cooled single cylinder with all parts readily available.

This forum is also a great boost to first-timer's confidence just knowing that there are folk on here ready to help with any problems arising. 

Good to hear that it wasn't an O ring failure on your decomp plug wink

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An interesting but failed attempt at curing a decompressor plug oil leak no

See here and scroll through the photos.......

The sale finished but the photos are

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A good example of how NOT to do it. hmm

 



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Nice a well engineered solution.biggrinbiggrinbiggrin! Supplied by WTF...😮



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Mine's leaking now!

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Locky where did you get you exhaust heat sheild?

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Its a home made one he whipped up when he was rebuilding the bike.

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Pete's correct. Originals are very hard to get.

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It looks cool and my heat wrap just doesn't

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Well... i better join the club! Mines now weeping too :P

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Mines like a tap Hahahaha 

 

 

should always ways remeber to take plug out when turning over with cam cover off. 



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Oops hehe

My bikes original decomp plug seal is still going strong!

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So this one today was just a slight mistake

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