Bringing a Sporty back to life
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Bringing a Sporty back to life
Here's the short story. I ride a Breakout and my wife wants to start riding again, been a couple of years since she sold her Sporty. My neighbor had a 2007 883 Sporty sitting behind his house, been there for about 2.5 years. He says it was running fine when he parked it and it hasn't been started since. Here's what I'be done:
Drained the tank, put in new fuel
New tires
New brake fluid
New pads
New air filter
New plugs
New battery
Serious cleaning job on the rest of the bike, what a mess. Here's the problem, I went to change the oil and filter and there was virtually no oil in the tank. I went ahead and filled the tank to the low level line and put a new filter on it but I'm concerned about cranking it up becasue after doing that I realized all the oil might have just drained back down. Should I drain my new oil out and try and start it with just the old oil or crank it up overfilled and leave the dipstick out so the excess can have a place to go.........I can clean up a mess. Thanks for any advice
Drained the tank, put in new fuel
New tires
New brake fluid
New pads
New air filter
New plugs
New battery
Serious cleaning job on the rest of the bike, what a mess. Here's the problem, I went to change the oil and filter and there was virtually no oil in the tank. I went ahead and filled the tank to the low level line and put a new filter on it but I'm concerned about cranking it up becasue after doing that I realized all the oil might have just drained back down. Should I drain my new oil out and try and start it with just the old oil or crank it up overfilled and leave the dipstick out so the excess can have a place to go.........I can clean up a mess. Thanks for any advice
Last edited by markray125; Apr 11, 2016 at 05:37 PM.
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From: Houston, Texas
Here's the short story. I ride a Breakout and my wife wants to start riding again, been a couple of years since she sold her Sporty. My neighbor had a 2007 883 Sporty sitting behind his house, been there for about 2.5 years. He says it was running fine when he parked it and it hasn't been started since. Here's what I'be done:
Drained the tank, put in new fuel
New tires
New brake fluid
New pads
New air filter
New plugs
New battery
Serious cleaning job on the rest of the bike, what a mess. Here's the problem, I went to change the oil and filter and there was virtually no oil in the tank. I went ahead and filled the tank to the low level line and put a new filter on it but I'm concerned about cranking it up becasue after doing that I realized all the oil might have just drained back down. Should I drain my new oil out and try and start it with just the old oil or crank it up overfilled and leave the dipstick out so the excess can have a place to go.........I can clean up a mess. Thanks for any advice
Drained the tank, put in new fuel
New tires
New brake fluid
New pads
New air filter
New plugs
New battery
Serious cleaning job on the rest of the bike, what a mess. Here's the problem, I went to change the oil and filter and there was virtually no oil in the tank. I went ahead and filled the tank to the low level line and put a new filter on it but I'm concerned about cranking it up becasue after doing that I realized all the oil might have just drained back down. Should I drain my new oil out and try and start it with just the old oil or crank it up overfilled and leave the dipstick out so the excess can have a place to go.........I can clean up a mess. Thanks for any advice
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From: Michigan
I went ahead and filled the tank to the low level line and put a new filter on it but I'm concerned about cranking it up becasue after doing that I realized all the oil might have just drained back down. Should I drain my new oil out and try and start it with just the old oil or crank it up overfilled and leave the dipstick out so the excess can have a place to go.........I can clean up a mess. Thanks for any advice
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From: Millington, TN
The problem is I attempted to change the oil and have most likely overfilled it due to the old oil leaking back into the sump. I did spray some fogging oil into the cylinders in antcipation of cranking it. I will turn it over by hand as that sounds like a good idea, I didn't know about putting it in second and rotating the wheel to do it...............thanks for the tip!!
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From: Puget Sound, WA
The last I saw of it was in the service department, where it had been detailed and gleamed like new.
RD
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Tried rotating the rear wheel by hand in second, that was fun. Ended up rotating it in fourth instead. Sprayed some more fogging oil in first. Still debating on whether to drain off some oil first before cranking it, though
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