HELP! A small screw MIGHT have fallen into the oil filler hole on my 2010 FLHX Glide

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Man that sucks...Can't add anything that my fellow HDFer's havent said EXCEPT....WELCOME!!!! Quite a first post...Please update us with what you find....OR in this case, Don't find... Good Luck!!!!
Tim.....:-).....o~`o....................
 
Hell id never sleep again .. Dont worry about it like has been said there is a screen on the oil pickup it aint gonna make it anywhere if its even in there..
 
Thanks all for the advice...
Gonna go out and work the bike over again...pull the battery box and all. Cannot freakin believe the misfortune here especially cause I'm always so careful...apparently not careful enough this time. I did drive the bike about 6 miles to go get some new oil then changed the oil. Didn't see any metal shavings in the oil after the ride to lead me to believe it had been chewed up by any gears. My thought was the worst case scenario being that the screw (if its even in there) somehow blocks the flow of oil through the pump. Of course, if that things gets chewed up in a gear...the damage could be considerably worse as it would make it through the mesh oil pump screen.

Wow...what a way to ruin a few days of me life. I just cant IMAGINE that freakin screw could have made it into that oil filler hole!!! I'll keep ya posted!
 
I also would not rest until I found that screw. But, highly suspect it's stuck in some crevice on the bike - also, check the whole floor - you could have kicked it across the floor. I've also lost a few screws over the years - sometimes compressed air can dislodge them.
 
That basically means that the screw could be anywhere along the 6 mile route as well.
You must be like my brother, I swear he'd leave each bottle of oil standing upside down in the fill hole for at least 10 minutes. Wanting to get every drop of oil he paid for. And yes before I get slammed I am talking about his car.
 
Get yourself a clean oil drain pan and just keep pouring the oil through with the bike on the kickstand and see if you can flush it out.

I would first give the bike a full shakedown/ fine tooth comb inspection,look EVERYWHERE... it's amazing where things can find thier way into.
 
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