$7.72 for 100 Viton O rings, size 013, at McMaster Carr, thats $0.0772 each. I would say a new O ring everytime you change your oil would be cheap insurance, at less than 8 cents.

 

If you paid to have this service done, and they didn't replace the O ring, I'd let them deal with the mess...

 

local dealer here uses so much PIPE DOPE.it goobers up the o ring and u get a leak,let the o ring do its job no tape dope paste glue form a gasket,any of that crapp can end up in small oil passages and block them,and i think teflon eats 02 sensors really fast.

 

The dealer should have replaced the o-ring when they changed your oil.

 

Ding-Ding-Ding We have a winner! You guys are overthinking this. The shop needs to step up and take care of it. If not just drain and refill from a clean container. 5 minute job!

 

Agree with letting them do it, shouldnt be leaking after oil change.

 

Hey guys... Just an update... I'm not real impressed right now... So I went to the HD shop just to get the O-ring and a spare quart of oil. I did what was suggested. I drained all the oil into a clean container. The drain plug was so caked with pipe dope it took me forever to clean out the treads. The O-ring was shot; it was completely ripped in half... As suggested I also checked the 2 lower tranny case bolts were the exhaust mount is and yes, both of those 2 bolts where lose also. I torqued all that back down. Cleaned up the drain plug like new, put on a new O-ring and torqued the drain plug back in. Refilled the oil back... What I am a bit steamed about right now is... I just paid good money to have that 10K service done fall of last year, put another 3K miles on in the fall and had the oil change right before I put my bike away. The shop I have been taking my bike to is a shop down town, not the local HD shop. I have been taking it there based of some "good" references from some friends. Well if this forum knows about those bolts and I had a 10K service done, and that should be to check ALL fasteners, what the hell??? Not to mention not replacing a simple .06$ O-ring when changing the oil... Goop it up with pipe dope instead....??

 

On the jiffy stand all the oil comes out of my 08 EG

 

Your story is so typical and this is why soooooo many of us do our own services.

 

you would be amazed at how many dealerships glob on the pipe dope.