2011 M8 Leaking Oil Cap

joel97mustang · Apr 5, 2012

I have a 2011 M8 with a leaking oil cap.:face-icon-small-fro

If the sled gets turned over the oil spills everywhere. The cap is on but the oil spill out between the neck and cap.

This is a brand new sled. The oil bottle neck is NOT warped or egg shaped. I purchased the oil neck insert and o-ring on this forum to prevent heat warp. What I noticed is when you try to tighten down oil cap, anything beyond 1 and half turn will start to cross thread the cap.

Anybody have this problem? Any suggestions to fix? Is there a deeper oil cap with more threads so I can screw it down tighter?

Any advice greatly appreciated:face-icon-small-hap

skip · Apr 5, 2012

Yea I had the same problem took in to the shop and had them put a new oil tank and cap in it seems to be okay for now.

bgreen776 · Apr 5, 2012

email dan03_rev@yahoo.com. He sells a nice little aluminum ring that goes in the neck of your oil bottle that is sealed with a small o-ring. It works good. My bottle was so badly warped that the cap would cross thread, his insert fixed me right up. $20 IIRC.

mikew5945 · Apr 6, 2012

I had to remove the O-ring and use RTV silicone in the O-rings place. That stoped the leak you are talking about.

RKT · Apr 6, 2012

We have a nice fix for that that also allows you to fill up your oil bottle faster and with ease... eventually ALL oil bottle will warp

Check it out

http://www.2strokeheads.com/Oilcap.htm

joel97mustang said:
I have a 2011 M8 with a leaking oil cap.:face-icon-small-fro

If the sled gets turned over the oil spills everywhere. The cap is on but the oil spill out between the neck and cap.

This is a brand new sled. The oil bottle neck is NOT warped or egg shaped. I purchased the oil neck insert and o-ring on this forum to prevent heat warp. What I noticed is when you try to tighten down oil cap, anything beyond 1 and half turn will start to cross thread the cap.

Anybody have this problem? Any suggestions to fix? Is there a deeper oil cap with more threads so I can screw it down tighter?

Any advice greatly appreciated:face-icon-small-hap

JWx2 · Apr 6, 2012

Yup, mines the EXACT same way yours is as you described.

HFH · Apr 6, 2012

I have had this same problem (I have also had the melting of reservoir my the cap, but that is something else). When you take off the cap, make sure that the o ring is properly seated. Sometimes it works its way up the threads. Also when you put the cap on be careful, it is really easy to cross thread. Every time we put more oil in, we check the o ring. It had really worked for us.

martin1200 · Apr 8, 2012

ttt

Mines the same way gonna try and fix this summer!!! sucks

tatorsalad · Apr 8, 2012

rkt kit work great mine has not leaked a drop since i put it on there

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