Stripped my oil drain plug. Never thought it would happen to me. The dealer was very good about it. They picked up my bike, 2 hours later and my wallet $250 lighter. Most expensive oil change ever.

 

Any details? How did you do it?
Sorry for the woes, Bro...

 

I've often wondered if you could weld and then re-tap these.
Just aluminum I think.

lp

 

If its aluminum, I do my best to hand thread any bolt several turns before putting a socket to it, because stripping aluminum threads is so easy to do.
I'm glad you got out of it for only $250. Glad its fixed.

 

I have done that also to a non HD. It was the allen hole on the plug that I stripped. Think dealer over torqued the thing and I ended up stopping it trying to get it out. Sh(t like this happens...

 

Next time, head to your local NAPA, they sell PLUS 1, 2 and 3 oversize drain plugs for under ten bucks. They just retap the stripped hole as they go in for the first time. I stripped the oil pan on my old Dyna and had the dealer fix it as well. Very expensive. Then I learned about these damn plus size drain plugs. Live and learn. I guess this is a somewhat common screwup on oil pans.

 

They have + size plugs for chamfer seat oring type plugs like the HD?

 

How did they fix it for $250.00?

 

Thats the million dollar question right now.

 

the replacement pan itself is about $100 ($92 plus tax), leaves the other $150 for 2 hours labor, gasket, new plug, fluid? Sounds fairly reasonable..(outta be able to do it in 1 hour I'd think)