Oil Quanity
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Oil Quanity
Service Manual saids 3.5 quarts of oil in the engine. My friend says he always just uses 4 quarts. Any bad effects of having .5 quart too much oil in the crank? Who uses 4 quarts and who uses less?
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Service manual for the 09 says 3.5 quarts (initially). The maintenance specifications for the 09's (as in years past) state 4 quarts. You will be fine with 4 quarts. However, as others stated you risk some blowby. I always run 3.5-3.8 quarts to lessen the chance.
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So I had this long saga on the oil, fixed a few problems did an oil change put in 3.8 qts in and came off some traffic and hammered it of a stop sign after sitting and blew oil all over my brother and his bike (good thing it was a rental) I have had this happen 2 other times.
The problem I have is I am not sure where Happy is with my bike since I had a consistent leak until recently. I pulled the rear plug and it had a lot of oil but I think the breather is the cause. I am going to reroute the breather today finally as time has not allowed sooner.
We shall see what happens? How much is normal on the breather venting oil??
The problem I have is I am not sure where Happy is with my bike since I had a consistent leak until recently. I pulled the rear plug and it had a lot of oil but I think the breather is the cause. I am going to reroute the breather today finally as time has not allowed sooner.
We shall see what happens? How much is normal on the breather venting oil??
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4 qts. for mine.
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