First oil change and first buyer's remorse - found wierd shit in TE510

[slimydog]

http://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/1walyf/first_oil_change_in_the_new_bike_first_buyers/

any ideas guys?

 

[tls25rs]

Could be the pieces that go between the shift forks and the shift drum part number 34 in the attached image

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

First oil change on a 3-4 year old bike?

How has the bike been shifting?

How many miles on it?

 

[Motosportz]

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

BTW, on my first oil change 3 years ago, I found this on the drain plug, I decided to just forget it and ride the bike until it lunched itself. It's got 17,000 miles on it now.

 

[Xriderdown]

Sure looks like those shifting fork guides to me. I was working with those pieces last year while putting my 510 back together. I recall thinking about how easy it would be to miss-handle these during installation. Makes me wonder how poor your bikes would shift without these.

 

[268fords]

BTW, on my first oil change 3 years ago, I found this on the drain plug, I decided to just forget it and ride the bike until it lunched itself. It's got 17,000 miles on it now.

Did you ever figure out what that piece was. I mean, obviously it couldn't have been that important.

 

[Tinken]

I believe these go into the ends of the prefilters.

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

Did you ever figure out what that piece was. I mean, obviously it couldn't have been that important.

Never did, to me, it looks like the fixed end of the smaller oil screen (number 6).

I believe these go into the ends of the prefilters.

Do you mean the fixed ends of the oil screens, numbers 6 and 4?

 

[Tinken]

Yes

 

[268fords]

That does look like the end of the prefilter. Does yours look normal?