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Well I did it. I changed my oil for the first time. That crap that came out looked like brown mud. It was nice to see Vespa went out of their way to help us. It took about 1 hour the first day and the second. It is good I don't work on scooters for a living. Everybody seams to have a hard time with the oil plug. For me I just grabbed a 15/16 wrench and it came right off. Now working on the exhaust was another matter. I wish I knew how to get the oil into the pan and not all over. If anybody can give me some info I would love it.

Any way it's done now I will go through it again in about another 3000 miles.

I wish to say thanks for giving me the confidence to give it a try on my own.

Paul
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Re: Oil, oil, everywere
Zippy wrote:
Well I did it. I changed my oil for the first time. That crap that came out looked like brown mud. It was nice to see Vespa went out of their way to help us. It took about 1 hour the first day and the second. It is good I don't work on scooters for a living. Everybody seams to have a hard time with the oil plug. For me I just grabbed a 15/16 wrench and it came right off. Now working on the exhaust was another matter. I wish I knew how to get the oil into the pan and not all over. If anybody can give me some info I would love it.

Any way it's done now I will go through it again in about another 3000 miles.

I wish to say thanks for giving me the confidence to give it a try on my own.

Paul
Paul,

Use a 24 MM next time, these things are metric ya know. Crying or Very sad emoticon

Nice job, it gets easier, I think.

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It gets easier! I just did mine last night on the GT and it took MAYBE 15 min. by myself. Not a drip anywhere. My secret is to loosen everything (plug and filter) while it's on the center stand. I have a painters tray liner that iuss to catch the oil. Once things are loose, I take the scoot off the center stand to avoid getting oil all over the place. I put the tray under the scoot while holding the bike upright with the other. Having the scoot of the center stand allows you to lean it to get more oil out. Wipe 'er down, plug 'er up, fill 'er up. Done deal.
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Are you using synthetic oil?
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Thanks for the tips and yes on the synthetic oil.

Paul
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+1 on the metric tools.

It won't be so easy to get that plug out if you round the edges of that nut.

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