Journeyman
"And this one is just right" ~ Goldilocks
After fully draining the oil I added 5.5 quarts, as usual, and it nearly overflowed the oil tank!
I went inside and searched the forums looking for an explanation. Someone mentioned a similar experience, but it was determined that instead of one of the drain plugs he accidentally removed one of the tapered pipe threaded plugs instead. Yeah, I figured, that's what I must have done too. I decided to never tell the story.
So, I went back out and drained off 1.5 quarts and called it a day. The next morning I checked under the bike and was surprised to see that the actual drain plugs were all cleaned off from having been removed. Huh?
With the level now below the stick I started the bike and let her run for a minute, waited 30 seconds and then started sloooooowly adding oil back in, thinking that this shouldn't take long.
Well, I kept adding and adding, then exactly 1.5 quarts later it hit the second mark- perfect!
Riddle me this....anyone ever have to burp their bike to get all the oil in?
I went inside and searched the forums looking for an explanation. Someone mentioned a similar experience, but it was determined that instead of one of the drain plugs he accidentally removed one of the tapered pipe threaded plugs instead. Yeah, I figured, that's what I must have done too. I decided to never tell the story.
So, I went back out and drained off 1.5 quarts and called it a day. The next morning I checked under the bike and was surprised to see that the actual drain plugs were all cleaned off from having been removed. Huh?
With the level now below the stick I started the bike and let her run for a minute, waited 30 seconds and then started sloooooowly adding oil back in, thinking that this shouldn't take long.
Well, I kept adding and adding, then exactly 1.5 quarts later it hit the second mark- perfect!
Riddle me this....anyone ever have to burp their bike to get all the oil in?