2018 polaris 450 sportsman, what is size hex or wrench needed to remove oil plug?

 

My 05 is M6. Annoying to see communist sizes on a Polaris.

The hole is deep, need to make sure in all the way, or mine will round opening.


Going to sound like a dick, but why don't you just try them until they fit?

 

"Why don't you just try them until they fit?" I was thinking, Why are you asking us? But he may not have anything that fits.

Besides the U.S., only 0.8% of the population of Earth isn't officially metric. Liberia was founded by freed American slaves and like us isn't officially metric, but in reality it is. Myanmar has their own Burmese system of measurements that no one else uses, but they're actually using metric. And to be honest, no one cares what 382,000 people in Belize do. They can measure with their hands and feet for all I care. If we were metric like everyone else on the whole planet except those 3 countries we could all buy one set of tools instead of two. I'd love to spend 50% less on tools and need 50% less space to store them. The metric system is already used here by people involved with science, medicine, the military, automobile and other production, and anyone dealing with an international business, so we're half metric already. And most food and non-food products we buy are marked in metric and non-metric on their containers. My uncles on the farm measured the height of horses in hands and length on land in rods. I never knew anyone besides them who used a rod as a unit of measurement. BTW a rod is 16'6". And don't get me started on board feet and cords of wood. Why not join the rest of the world who have a system of measurements that actually makes sense?

 

Even if you were using metric you would have n equilvalent of a cord and would still meter feed of wood or such.

The people in those countries are pussies and let their government force it on them.

So since Polaris is or was made in US, I want a non communist size.

I don't know about your grocery stories but the Pig sells bannanas by the pound. Beer still comes in a 12 ounce can. 32 ounce fountain drinks. Half gallon and 1/5s too. Foot long subs too.

About the only profession I have dealt with that works in metric is medical.

 

Thanks, 6mm is correct size, bought wrench bit and worked so easy. Appreciate recommendation to ensure bit seated deep.

BTW, did not notice there was a copper (appeared to be copper) washer until emptied oil pan. Must have fell off plug when removed and did not initially notice.

 

Ya there is a crush washer. Need to make sure it does fall off and not stick to the pan. I buy a few of them from dealer and put in baggie and shapie them, or I put in filter box and sharpie. I like sharpie. Bot my sxs and 4 wheeler use them. Could probably buy them from other sources, but I get them from dealer.


I just did my sportsman, almost stripped the plug cause I didn;t have it in deep enough. So I made note in service manual. I like notes too. Ya it sounds like skill of the trade, but I like reminders. Mine you can you socket it on it if the allen does strip I am pretty sure. Which is nice feature.


If bolks ever get to point I wonder if they are close to stripped. I just replace.

 

You would still have metric equivalents of everything, but to convert from one unit of measurement to another you would only have to move the decimal point left or right the right number of places. No one would need to know that the rod my uncles used to measure by was equal to 1⁄320 of a mile, or 1/4 of a surveyor's chain, or 5 1/2 yards, or 16 1/2 feet. In metric units you only have to multiply or divide a number by 10, 100, 1,000, etc. No inches or feet or yards or anything else to figure out. Just add another zero each time you multiply.

All those other countries can do business with each other without having to calculate what anything would be in a different system of measurements. They all use the same system. And since when is the whole world except the U.S. communist?

I buy soft drinks in 1/2 liter bottles and 2 liter bottles, not from a soda fountain. I don't even know what sizes fountain drink come in. Every American beer can I've seen for a few decades had ml on it too, not just ounces. Maybe you buy your beer from the 1960s. How many ounces are in 1/5 of a gallon? Can you tell me without looking it up? I sure as hell don't know. I don't think I've even seen 1/5 of a gallon of liquor my whole life. But I have seen a lot of 750 ml bottles. I bought my share of those. If they sell 1/2 gallons of liquor, I haven't seen those either. I have seen 1.75 liter bottles. If you pay for 1/2 gallon and get one of those you're getting gypped. Rounded off to 7 digits, that's only 59.17454 ounces, so you're getting screwed out of 4.82546 ounces every time. Have you ever measured a "foot long" sub? I'll bet you anything the next one you buy isn't 1.0 feet long. And smooshing it down to size or trying to stretch it out doesn't count. When I buy Big John Steak & Onion subs, I get halves or whole subs. About 8" or 16", but I never ask for an 8" or 16" sub. I tell them half or whole just like other people have been doing for 45 years. BTW, they fill subs their subs with meat, not a pile of veggies with a little bit of meat hiding under it like Subway. I haven't been to Subway in years. You can have your footlongs. I'll have something 20 times better. Oh wait, I forgot to convert that. 100 times better.

We used metric measurements in chemistry class back in the '70s. And drug dealers have been selling kilos and grams for as long as I've heard of street drugs. Everyone uses metric except us and converting everything back and forth causes a lot of trouble. That's why scientists and doctors and lots of other people in the U.S. use metric. In 1999 NASA crashed a Mars orbiter because of a "failed translation of English units into metric units" in a piece of software. That's $125 million down the drain because the U.S. isn't metric. In 1983 an Air Canada plane ran out of fuel in the middle of a flight. They did the conversions wrong and thought they had twice as much fuel as they actually did. In 1999 a patient was injected with 0.5 grams of phenobarbital instead of 0.5 grains, which is only 0.065 grams. That's one heck of an overdose, about 7.7 times as much as it was supposed to be. Because they weren't using just the metric system. In 1994 when a cargo plane landed at the airport, the FAA found out it was 15 tons heavier than it was supposed to be, because someone didn't convert kilograms to pounds properly. In 1998 NASA and the European Space Agency lost millions of dollars worth of equipment. SOHO, the Solar Heliospheric Observatory lost all communications with Earth because they messed up another English to metric conversion. All of these incidents and many more could have been avoided if we only used the metric system. Why do you think the English don't use the English system?

 

Why are you bringing up rods? That is not so much as issue of standard vs metric, but just another way of doing it. So that is just smoke screen.

Everyone I grew up knew what a 1/5 was. You are not getting gyped 7 ml, unless you are paying by the ounce. The price is per bottle same with 1/2 gallon and 1.75 Notice the 750 and 1.75 is darn near 1/5 and half gallon.

Whether you like subway is not really germane to the conversation, again just a smoke screen. I have no idea what regional shop you are talking about don't care. Smoke screen.

As for drug dealers, coke may be grams. Has dope switched from ounces yet? I dunno. But not all that long ago pot ounce. I am not going to base my life on what columbian coke dealers choice to measure their product.


You got to watch for those shifty canadaians. Labatts comes in 11.5 ounces, so every case you are screwed out of a can of beer, regrardless of how many units of measurement are on the can.

I don't know anyone who buys bottles of pop by the ml. 12, 16, 20, 24. Not sure why you feel the need to tell us that you only drink bottles. Eurpoean beer comes in ounces and pints, or fractions there of.

I also use PSI and F. I have no need for kelvin.

I am not some *****, who is going to have the governent tell me what unit of measure I have to use.

What is funny talk to people in other countries, many things are still discussed in SAE.


But feel free to tell me what you had breakfast, or what you get at your favorite dinner, or how you order the medium size steak.

 

I brought up a stupid non-metric unit of measure that people I knew used. And that's just one of many that don't make much sense. How is that a smoke screen?

Since you brought it up, when was the last time you bought an actual 1/5 or 1/2 gallon instead of instead of .750 or 1.75 liters? No answer? Smokescreen, right? And there are times where "near" the right number isn't good enough. But I doubt that not getting your money's worth of whiskey will make you personally crash a plane or a satellite.

How long is your foot long? Is it a foot? Don't know? No answer. Smokescreen.

I don't know any drug dealers but I never heard of one buying his supply in ounces. Kilograms yes, but never ounces.

And I didn't know Canadians who use the metric system sell 11.5 ounce cans of beer. I'm learning something new here.

Even when I bought pop in cans it was always marked in ml and ounces, not just ounces. I don't drink beer anymore so it doesn't matter to me that they're all marked 432 ml or whatever they are, but they are marked in ml too. Show me what beer you're drinking that isn't.

If you're talking about pints in the U.K. they aren't the same size as U.S. pints and I doubt they made an exception just for you, so you could have a non-communist pint. And they have 440 ml cans which are around 14.8 ounces. Still not a pint, here or there. I don't know how much time you spent in Europe or when, but during the years I was there, in Germany except when I took a little vacation, beer was always in 1 liter mugs, 1/2 liter mugs, 1/2 liter glasses, 1/2 liter bottles, 330 ml cans, and I knew one bartender, bless her soul, who drank 330 ml glasses of beer that she poured from 330 ml bottles. Beer was never ounces or pints, or any fractions thereof, unless it was American beer, in cans or bottles that were always marked in milliliters too. I had a 3 liter beer stein and one of my roommates had a 5 liter beer stein he called his shot glass. You drink one of those and you're shot. It would take a whole American case of beer to fill mine and his one time, but we bought kegs of German beer. We bought cases of 1/2 liter bottles too sometimes, 20 bottles to a case, so it was 10 liters and you didn't have to figure out what amount any number of cases equaled. And the kegs were never measured in pony kegs, half-barrels, barrels, hogsheads, or any other such nonsense. They were measured in even numbers of liters, like 30 or 50 liters, except for the 3 liter baby keg they made for when you're not very thirsty. 3 cases = a 30 liter keg, 5 cases = a 50 liter keg. No trying to remember how many fractions of a gallon are in what size keg, and how many ounces that fraction is, and how many bottles or cans of beer that equaled. We already knew. 50 liters = 100 1/2 liter bottles = 25 bottles or apiece for the 4 of us. That would also equal 37.5 cans of German beer, almost always dark beer, for each of us, and we did that more weekends than I can remember. As a matter of fact there's a lot I don't remember from those 3 years.

 

German beer is in ounces too. Looking at a bock that is 1 pint .9 ounces. No ml. on bottle. I don't know anyone who gets/asks for bottles or cans of pop in other than 12, 16, 20, 24 ounces. Yes it is written on there. I do use liters for water, and quarts for oil.

But I don;t care where you like your meat, or what your favorite food is.