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Happened to me too!
It was great fun trying to get the dropped screw back in under the hot exhaust pipe while wearing gloves (too long in a 'health and safety' environment!)
I like the idea of swapping for a proper bleed nipple though.
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All mine years with XT i never used that bleeding, i open the filler cap and check that oil is coming from engine and then everything is ok.
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There's really nothing to "bleed" It's just to verify oilflow, as in better safe than sorry. I've never had problems, wheater it was just an oilchange, or a rebuild.

Just loosen the screw lightly, when oil weeps out, tighten it up, and youre done
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surely you need to bleed there so that there is no air trapped in the oil filter??
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Why would it be "trapped"? I think it just gets pumped through the system with the oil, and ends up in top of the frame where air is already present. Otherwise we would see a lot of siezed engines.
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