do it in under 50 minutes for under $50 bucks

his month we are repurposing a segment from our weekly live show where we do everything you would T expect in a magazine, plus a lot more. You can see a write up in this issue, but from that show this article is based on our 50-50 segment. For those of you that haven't caught it the 50/50 is a tech segment that you can do at your home garage for 50 dollars or less in 50 minutes or less. For this segment we're gonna change the oil in my 2016 dyna lowrider. Now I'm fresh back from bike week and we ran thins thing pretty hard so my guess is the oil is pretty cooked. Let's take a look at what we're going to use to get this job done. Our 2016 Dyna Lowrider calls for 3 quarts of oil plus a filter. We'll be using three quarts of Spectro 20/50, conventional. This is a fantastic oil that's available at all WPS Hard Drive Dealers. We're going to use high flow Filtro black oil filter because I like using a black filter instead of chrome one. We're also going to change the drain plug oring. The Oring is part number 11105 and are available at all Harley and independant dealers. Let's take a look at the tools needed to complete this job. We need a small pick to remove the Oring from the drain plug. Three eights drive ratchet. three eights drive extension with a 17 mm for the end of our old oil filter. I'm gonna use a swivel socket is five eights for my drain plug on a 12 inch extension so I can get right under

the engine and transmission to take the drain plug out. most your major home improvement stores have a very good tool selection nowadays and all these tools can be cound there. As always we never use any thread tape on any over our drain plugs, we only use liquid teflon so I have some of that here as well. Now this is a job that anybody can do with a reasonable ammount of tools and a reasonable ammount of skill and you don't need a hoist to do it, you can do it all right on flat ground. In fact a Dyna leans to the left when it's on the kickstand and this will help yopu drain all your oil. The on thing I will tell you is that it helps to heat the bike up to full operating tempature first because the oil come out a lot faster. Let's walk through the steps for changing the oil. STEP ONE: I remove the dipstick. I check to see if there's any debris on there I'm also checking to see the quality oil that I'm removing if it's too dark I got a remember that I'm going to do an oil change sooner than later next time. STEP TWO: Make sure the drain pan is under the drain plug then I

remove the drain plug. As I remove the drain plug there is a magnet on the end, I check that to see if there's debris and if there is, what that debris is and what it could mean.At that point time I clean the drain plug threads, remove the old oring, put the new oring on and apply a small ammount of liquid teflon. And now my drain plug is ready to go back in after the oil is completely drained. STEP THREE: As my oilis draining in the back I loosen the oil filter in the front. With the oil' coming out of the front it's gonna leave a little bit of a mess so I wanna give you a little tip here and tell you to stuff something under the filter first to catch any additional oil. Once the oil filter is removed I usually leave it in the pan upside down for about 24 hours, then I can dispose of it propperly. STEP FOUR: When you're reinstalling the new oil filter put a small amount of oil on the o-ring to make sure that when you tighten up to the oil filter housing outlet on the block of the engine, that O-ring doesn't twist or tear, it's super important. Also make sure that o-ring is there. If it's not your oil filter is not gonna seal. STEP FIVE: The next step is to put the oil drain plug back and make sure they have a small amount of liquid Teflon on your new o-ring. When you tighten the drain plug make it snug and go about an eigth of a turn more. You don't want to over tighten it and tear the o-ring because it will leak. STEP SIX: We asdd three quarts of 20W50 Spectro Oil back into Our engine. STEP SEVEN: Reinstall your engine oil dipstick. I like to reinstall mine once, then pull it back out and check to see the oil level is indicated correctly on that dipstick before I fire my engine. STEP EIGHT: Once I've tightened the dipstick I will start my engine and let it idel until the oil light goes out. Once the oil light goes out you're good to go. Check for leaks, wipe up any risidual oil on the motorcycle so than nothing gets on your tires and you're road ready.