Stick your finger in the tank, fill it enough to cover your fingernail.

Check oil line routing, if you can see the tubes inside the tank, the vent will be the highest.

 

Nice bike

 

Thanks that helped a lot the picture! It's the green line on the pic, the line between filter and the pump im having issues with. First was pump side and last was the filter side and it was the worst. Also it looks like the pressure started to push the line off of the fitting. I'll pick up a K&N and replace that then snug up those lines. Oil level with bike upright is just at the bottom of fill tube where it connects to the tank body.

 

It sounds like this may be the first time you have run this bike, so it may be that the oil hoses were connected incorrectly by a previous owner.

Make sure the oil hoses are connected to the oil filter correctly.

Oil enters an oil filter from the outside of the filter element, and exits through the center.

It may not be obvious looking at the oil filter mount, so an easy way to determine which fitting is which:

With filter off, remove the oil hoses, a little compressed air into each nipple, when the air comes out the center of the mount you have found the return nipple. Connect the hose that returns to the tank to this nipple.

 

Yeah, I think either the filter is bad for some reason or the lines to the filter are swapped. When you pull the filter off, you can usually tell which line goes to the center and which goes to the outside. Look at the filter and you'll (usually) see a backflow preventing flap, or anti-drainback valve under the small holes at the outer ring of the filter. If the lines are reversed, that would put a whole lot of back pressure on that line.

 

I've drove it about 500 miles and it never leaked a drop. All I done was change oil and filter. Logic tells me it's either to full or somethings up with that filter I was sold. I just picked up a K&N 170-C. Hopefully that's the problem so I can move fwd and change tranny fluid.

 

Could have been a Twinkie filter.

 

The line closest is what appears to be the center which according to what u all are say should go directly back to the oil tank. It doesn't it goes to bottom of pump. It is also the one that is leaking. Gonna swap them around and put the New filter on and see what happens

 

Do one at a time. Then you'll know what fixed it.

 

On the OEM filter mount the outboard tube (the oily one in the picture) connects to the return to tank hose.

I think your hoses to the oil filter mount are reversed.

Here`s my theory:

The previous owner routed the hoses incorrectly (he probably followed the illustration in the factory service manual, which is wrong).

The filter that was originally on your engine did not have an anti drain back valve (oil will flow through a filter without an anti drain back valve in either direction).

I bet the filter you now have installed does have an anti drain back valve, which will stop oil flow if the oil flow through the filter is reversed...

Remove the filter, and start the engine. If oil comes through the center threaded tube in the mount, the hoses are reversed.

You won`t hurt the engine doing this, as long as you don`t run it so long that the tank runs dry.