Well, today was maintance day for the quad, yamaha warrior 350 2002. Decided to get her ready for the winter. Changed the plugs cleaned and oiled the air filter, and changed the oil. This is where I ran into my dilema. After draining the oil, checking the oil filter to see if it needed to be replaced, and getting it all back together, I start the quad up, let her run for a little, then cracked the oil galley bolt. No oil seeped out of it, I even went as far as taking the bolt completely out and still no oil flow. After this, I pulled the oil filter cap off again, and turned the bike over to see if I was getting flow to the oil filter. Oil came shooting out of the hole on the bottom left so I know the pump is pumping. My question is, is it really that important to see oil coming out of the oil galley bolt? I have pressure where the oil filter is, so am I to assume that I have pressure threw out the motor? Thanks alot in advance!
craig

 

BTW I am running belray 10w40 oil.

 

that galley could have some gunk in it preventing oil flow. do you have an air compressor? id put a blow fitting on the hose and put it to that hole and see what that does by giving it a few quick bursts of air. and you do not state if you changed the oil filter or not. not changing the oil filter is a bad move on any quad, bike or auto.

 

was going to change it but it looked like it did the day the filter came outa the box. Im gonna pull the valve covers off 2day and see if im getting flow up there. ill try the air pressure as well thanks
craig

 

Evening Bump

 

did you make sure that the oil filter is in the correct way? i have seen that happen too. backwards oil filter = zero pressure up top and it burns the motor to hell and back.

 

Yea everything is in the right way. I went riding on Friday for about three hours and had 0 problems, she ran like a champ. So I am definetly getting oil pressure, because she would have definetly fried herself.
craig

 

BTW pulled the valve covers off prior to riding, and I was getting oil up in the head, that was the only reason I felt safe enough to ride
craig