How to Perform an Oil and Oil Filter Change w/Pictures

[Ares X]

I changed my drain plugs to the magnetic drain plugs.

What are magnetic drain plugs?  I'm not familiar with these.

Plugs made with a magnetic potential to attract metal fillings in the oil, to prevent them from circulating.  I have a faily powerful magnet on the end of my oil filter to accomplish the same task.

Oh!  Cool!  I have never heard of that.

[Deyv]

I changed my drain plugs to the magnetic drain plugs.

What are magnetic drain plugs?  I'm not familiar with these.

Plugs made with a magnetic potential to attract metal fillings in the oil, to prevent them from circulating.  I have a faily powerful magnet on the end of my oil filter to accomplish the same task.

Oh!  Cool!  I have never heard of that.

No idea how good this site is for response (and I don't have the specs on the plug), but.. http://www.drainplugmagnets.com/

[mxracer546]

I run the magnetic drain plugs in my race bike (Yamaha YZ450F) and just put them on the Raider.

[Deyv]

I run the magnetic drain plugs in my race bike (Yamaha YZ450F) and just put them on the Raider.

Do you know/remember what the plug thread size was?

[mxracer546]

M14x1.5

Links for drain plugs http://www.motosport.com/cruiser/2008-yamaha-raider-1900-xv19c--BIKEMASTER-ALUMINUM-MAGNETIC-OIL-DRAIN-PLUG
http://www.powersportparts.net/BikeMaster-Aluminum-Magnetic-Oil-Drain-Plug-14mm-p/4082481.htm

[Ares X]

M14x1.5

Links for drain plugs http://www.motosport.com/cruiser/2008-yamaha-raider-1900-xv19c--BIKEMASTER-ALUMINUM-MAGNETIC-OIL-DRAIN-PLUG
http://www.powersportparts.net/BikeMaster-Aluminum-Magnetic-Oil-Drain-Plug-14mm-p/4082481.htm

I love how they state that it will make your bike look better. If anyone is crawling under my bike to see how nice it looks, they're going to be sadly disappointed.  I tend to clean up as much gunk as I can when my bike is jacked up, but with all of my riding there is no way the bottom will stay clean.

Assuming the entre bolt/plug is magnetized, do these tend to collect metal debris on the outside of the bike?  That would be a little weird.

[mxracer546]

M14x1.5

Links for drain plugs http://www.motosport.com/cruiser/2008-yamaha-raider-1900-xv19c--BIKEMASTER-ALUMINUM-MAGNETIC-OIL-DRAIN-PLUG
http://www.powersportparts.net/BikeMaster-Aluminum-Magnetic-Oil-Drain-Plug-14mm-p/4082481.htm

I love how they state that it will make your bike look better. If anyone is crawling under my bike to see how nice it looks, they're going to be sadly disappointed.  I tend to clean up as much gunk as I can when my bike is jacked up, but with all of my riding there is no way the bottom will stay clean.

Assuming the entre bolt/plug is magnetized, do these tend to collect metal debris on the outside of the bike?  That would be a little weird.

I have never seen anything on the outside of the drain plug on my street or dirt bikes.

[Ares X]

M14x1.5

Links for drain plugs http://www.motosport.com/cruiser/2008-yamaha-raider-1900-xv19c--BIKEMASTER-ALUMINUM-MAGNETIC-OIL-DRAIN-PLUG
http://www.powersportparts.net/BikeMaster-Aluminum-Magnetic-Oil-Drain-Plug-14mm-p/4082481.htm

I love how they state that it will make your bike look better. If anyone is crawling under my bike to see how nice it looks, they're going to be sadly disappointed.  I tend to clean up as much gunk as I can when my bike is jacked up, but with all of my riding there is no way the bottom will stay clean.

Assuming the entre bolt/plug is magnetized, do these tend to collect metal debris on the outside of the bike?  That would be a little weird.

I have never seen anything on the outside of the drain plug on my street or dirt bikes.

Good to know.  Thanks!

[Sweet Tooth]

I put 3 super strong magnets on the bottom of my bike for those stupid red lights. And my gosh i got so much junk. Dang. But helped change the lights . Unless they were on a timer.

[umpire3]

Dead hard disk drives (HDD) have an useful after life.

HDD's have rare earth magnates in them.  I took one apart and pulled the magnates out.  I put magnates on the oil filter without any tie wraps.  And they're still there.  If the drive is dead, don't bother being delicate with the screws.  I used a 1/4" left handed drill bit to knock them off.  The only delicate part is prying the magnates off thier mounting position.  They're glued on.

[seventhLetter]

Dead hard disk drives (HDD) have an useful after life.

HDD's have rare earth magnates in them.  I took one apart and pulled the magnates out.  I put magnates on the oil filter without any tie wraps.  And they're still there.  If the drive is dead, don't bother being delicate with the screws.  I used a 1/4" left handed drill bit to knock them off.  The only delicate part is prying the magnates off thier mounting position.  They're glued on.

That's a great idea.

[magaffer]

This looks like it would come in handy...

http://www.formafunnel.com/

[Ares X]

This looks like it would come in handy...

http://www.formafunnel.com/

Actually I prefer using the aluminum foil method mentioned in this thread because then I don't have to clean it up. I can just toss it.

[Coldfinger]

Dead hard disk drives (HDD) have an useful after life.

HDD's have rare earth magnates in them.  I took one apart and pulled the magnates out.  I put magnates on the oil filter without any tie wraps.  And they're still there.  If the drive is dead, don't bother being delicate with the screws.  I used a 1/4" left handed drill bit to knock them off.  The only delicate part is prying the magnates off thier mounting position.  They're glued on.

That's a great idea.

I pulled the magnets out of a HDD. The magnets are easily breakable but they are large enough that even half a magnet will suffice.  These things are strong.  Those HDD's are sure tough, I was surprised.  Anyway, I had magnets on the two lower drain plugs and oil filter and I just changed the oil.  I didn't notice any debris in the oil or on the drain plugs for the lower bolts.  I'm going to cut open the filter to see if anything has collected there.

This oil has around 3000 miles on it before I changed it.  I'll let you know if there is anything on the inside of the filter where the magnets are.

[Coldfinger]

I left the magnets in place while removing filter and while cutting it open.

There might be a trace of something on the inside of filter but I'm letting the residual oil drain down to take a closer look at it later. All I can say for sure is I can tell from looking at the inside of filter canister where the magnets are on the outside.

One thing to note though - the flow of oil thru the filter is from the outside to the inside, so I think even if the magnets were not there that oil would have to pass thru the filter media before going back to the motor so the filter would probably catch most of it anyhow.  Another observation - unless you have a strong magnet that encircles the filter, there is a lot of oil that would go thru the filter that wouldn't be close enough to the magnet such that the magnet could work.

Lastly, I've cut open quite a few Fram filters and even though they have cardboard end caps on the ones I've opened, they were all in place and there was no separation of the filter media.