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#220924 Erbman02 (User) Platinum Boarder Posts: 3809 Re:Changing your oil is easy 2 Years, 9 Months ago   kurtfriedrich wrote: Just to add one more data point to this ... changed my oil, 08 Raod Star was 8 days old, 700 miles. Took it out for a 15 minute ride, drained the oil and filter, put in about 3.75 quarts (eye balling the level on the 4 quart jug). Took it out for another 15 minute ride, back into the garage, kept it straight up for 30 second idling, not touching the throttle. Shut it off, pulled the seat, and the dipstick was about here: --XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX----------------------------------------------------O ----------------------------^ (about at the 65% mark) So after reading all the posts that said "just throw in 4 quarts and forget it", I dumped the rest of the 4 qt container in. I then remeasured without starting the bike: --XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX----------------------------------------------------O ---------------------------------------------^ (about the 105% mark) It was just barely over the full mark. I figure as a new bike, it'll burn a little bit more and I'll be ok. Next time, I am going to dump in about 3.9 qts and forget it. Kurt The dip stick check is just about useless, There is also a tech bulletin about using 4qts or slightly less on the 1700's, since they think there could be a correlation between over oil and sticky valves. Since my 2nd change been using only 4qts, at 103k now, and use automotive full syn, 6, 7k change.   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access.
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