Draining Oil from 2000 Bulldog....how?

Entropy

Taming The Bulldog!
I want to learn to change my own oil and don't see any drain plug other than at the bottom of the crankcase. This plug does not release a lot of oil as most of it sits in the oil tank.

I can not see or feel any kind of drain plug/valve on the oil tank.

Should I just remove the supply lines?

The tank, as it sits in the frame, is leaned back a bit so how would you get all the oil out from the far "corners" of the oil bag?

I feel stupid for asking but figured I'm overlooking something very simple (hate when that happens!) :)

Thanks.
 

CCRainman

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Look for a hose at the bottom of your oil bag with a plug on it. That should be your drain hose. It'll look something like this.



If not then you need to remove 1 of your oil lines from the bag.
 

danosrs

Member
I would not recommend to remove the plug from the crank case, you could run into problems with repeated removal and reinstallation.
 

Raywood

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so do the older bikes not have a drain plug like the newer bikes??
I don't know what the earlier bikes had but I had a hose like CC posted on my 03 but my 05 just has a drain plug on the bottom of the tank on the leaning side.

Seems to change with each design change.

:flag:
 

CCRainman

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I don't know what the earlier bikes had but I had a hose like CC posted on my 03 but my 05 just has a drain plug on the bottom of the tank on the leaning side.

Seems to change with each design change.

:flag:
I can bet that they use the hose like mine because that's how they did it in the earlier years. Most of the earlier customs that I have seen has my set up.
 

danosrs

Member
My 2000 Husky has a hose exactly like the photo in above, and my 86 Softail was also the same, maybe its tucked up just under the tank??
 

CALJAMR

Member
By draining from the hose will this get all the oil out of the bag and engine?
Is there a filter to replace? What kind of oil do you guys use? How much oil?
 
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