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I'm looking to buy a magnetic drain plug for my 05 TBA and need to know what size I need, Where I can buy one and are they worth using.

Thanks

Check these places out:
http://www.magneticdrainplug.com/PlugFinder/motorcycle.php
OR
http://www.cgenterprises.com/magneticdrainplugs/size.htm
I do not know what size fits our bikes.

If they are worth it or not, I really do not know, but they definitley cannot hurt.

Soren

14 MM 1.5 right from your tech vault

Highly recommend! Put mine on last oil change, and it pulled a little bit of metal out of the oil (not in a quantity that would mean something bad was going on). Whether the filter would have grabbed it or not who knows, but I figure the more you can help out the filter the better.

got mine from cg and put it in second oil change 24,000 miles ago.

i believe in them

cat

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got mine from cg

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Dang shipping costs more than the part.

I'm glad I just went down to my local auto-parts store and picked one up. I've had mine in for a couple few years now.

thanks for the heads up on these plugs . I would not have considered one otherwise so I ordered one with 7 extra crusher washers as I already have a S/S re-usable oil filter so my future oil changes are sorted. The best thing is the shipping whick is the same whether it is sent down the road or o/s

Not a lot of point to them in these engines I reckon. The casings and pistons are all alloy so after run in the only worn parts it'll catch are bearings, gears etc - and if THEY'RE wearing you've got bigger problems than a few bits of metal floating about. Still there's no harm in it and it's cheap enough so knock yourself out.

FYI you can achieve the same result for free if you have a dead hard drive - pull it apart, get the rare earth magnets out, and stick them to the bottom of your oil filter with some decent glue.

The nice thing about it being a part of your oil change is that you now have a quick diagnostic tool to see if you are developing a serious problem. Who knows if there will be anything you can do about it, but it is one more method to getting a picture of what is going on inside the working parts of the engine.

I went to my local hardware store and got a pack of six
rare earth magnets that are about 1/2 inch diameter. I put
one on the bottom of my oil filter, which helps to secure my self-made oil filter protector, and I put the other 5 magnets on the sump drain plug. These magnets are cheap, and STRONG. They never budge.
FYI...My oil filter protector was made from a tin of Ocean's canned salmon. The can is tapered, with the bottom being a perfect fit for the filter. Also, the can, from the bottom upwards, is one-piece...there is no seam at the bottom. Cut to fit the oil filter length (plus a bit extra for the rare earth magnet disk I use to help secure the can to the bottom of the filter), then rimmed the inside upper edge of the can with a thin layer of cork for a perfect fit.
Painted the outside of the tin with black spray paint.
It works like a ******, cost me $3, and I got a meal out of the salmon. I'll post some pics later.

I've just got a big (3x2x1") magnet stuck to the side of my filter; it's nothing fancy, it's held on by it's own magneticism, I dunno if it works but it cost nothing in time or munny so...
Will cut the filter open at next service to see what lurks within.

Isn't it magnetic as standard? I thought they all were :O

No they aren't magnetic.

I keep a couple magnets under my bike to help trip traffic signals. One is attached to my oil drain plug, which I remove and attach at oil changes. At over 53,000 miles, I have never wiped even a spec of dust off the drain plug. The drain plug has taken on a slight magnetic charge of its own, but I put the magnet back on anyway.

Bought mine thru Amazon.com have not installed it yet.

Well, I used to unable to trip the traffic lights. Now I can. It's like the blind man, "i was blind, but now i see".

There are still about 4 signals around town that will not trip for me. Before the magnets (i got out them of a magdrive pump), I couldn't trip half of them. This is an area of 150,000 people, so there are plenty of traffic lights.