The WestCoast
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- Triumph Thunderbird 900, 2000 mod.
I also must ask her cause, I have received so many weird opinions and possible solutions about this problem I ran into. I will also attach some pictures that illustrate the problem, picture 1 is the well as it was before i cleaned it, and the O-ring sat this way when i first time discovered it. Pic 2 is the state of the O-ring after I had it pulled out.
Ok - I changed oil and filter on my Thunderbird 900 2000 model for the first time after let someone else do it the last 3 years. When I was cleaning up in the well where the actual filter insert is located, I discovered a gasket, or an O-ring, which looked completely broken. It was partially attached to a groove in the well. I pulled it out and put it away. The O-ring is the same size as the largest of the two O-rings that follow the filter insert on the new set.
Some say that I must take down the sump and put on a new O-ring, as this is an O-ring that will prevent the main flat gasket that covers the entire bottom pan from being “overloaded” in a way that it can be blown a hole in due to the pressure in the filter? Others say that this is not true, and that there will not be that kind of pressure in the well itself.
I personally think that this is an O-ring that those who have recently changed the filter have inserted by mistake of some sort. Also have read about two others that has ran into the same problem, but no mentions about what’s the right answer/solutions etc.
I'm a little nervous yet, a doubt has arisen. What if I could lose oil pressure due to the possibility that there should in fact be an extra O-ring here?
At the same time, I find no logic that there will be an extra O-ring that’s support the main gasket of the sump, that could be “blown” in to the well at this way? And – I have also been driven the whole last interwall with this problem – a non-functioning O-ring, and there has been no signs of pressure loss etc. I have also assembled it all now, with no O-ring – all works fine, but my eyes constantly monitoring the red dot in the middle of the clocks to see if it suddenly screams NO PRESSURE to me…
Are there someone who has an opinion about this?
Ok - I changed oil and filter on my Thunderbird 900 2000 model for the first time after let someone else do it the last 3 years. When I was cleaning up in the well where the actual filter insert is located, I discovered a gasket, or an O-ring, which looked completely broken. It was partially attached to a groove in the well. I pulled it out and put it away. The O-ring is the same size as the largest of the two O-rings that follow the filter insert on the new set.
Some say that I must take down the sump and put on a new O-ring, as this is an O-ring that will prevent the main flat gasket that covers the entire bottom pan from being “overloaded” in a way that it can be blown a hole in due to the pressure in the filter? Others say that this is not true, and that there will not be that kind of pressure in the well itself.
I personally think that this is an O-ring that those who have recently changed the filter have inserted by mistake of some sort. Also have read about two others that has ran into the same problem, but no mentions about what’s the right answer/solutions etc.
I'm a little nervous yet, a doubt has arisen. What if I could lose oil pressure due to the possibility that there should in fact be an extra O-ring here?
At the same time, I find no logic that there will be an extra O-ring that’s support the main gasket of the sump, that could be “blown” in to the well at this way? And – I have also been driven the whole last interwall with this problem – a non-functioning O-ring, and there has been no signs of pressure loss etc. I have also assembled it all now, with no O-ring – all works fine, but my eyes constantly monitoring the red dot in the middle of the clocks to see if it suddenly screams NO PRESSURE to me…
Are there someone who has an opinion about this?
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