DRAINING OIL EXCESS (the easy way)

[Blasterwizard]

Hi bikers.
After an oil change in which apparently I didn´t warm up enought the engine, I found, after a short trip, that I had too much oil in the crankcase. In a quick search in the forums I saw that the most widespread solution was to remove the lower screw and drain. Some vaguely mentioned introducing a vacuum tube in the hole of the filler cap. The fact is that laziness is the best stimulus for the imagination, and as I did not want to walk by removing the six screws of the sump guard, loosening of the crashbar, and back, I lay down on the sofa to meditate (spanish siesta, you know) .. ....... and then came the inspiration ... and if ..... Well, I´ll have to prove ..

I opened the cap through which you access the camshaft sprocket of the left cylinder

I introduced a tube, you attach a syringe, and voila!

 

[Steptoe]

I wouldn't bother if it's only a syringe full over filled, or even up to half a litre over filled. It'll find it's own level in the end.

When you measure out the exact amount of oil as per manufacterers specs it always fills the oil sight glass and looks overfilled. But it isn't.

 

[Blasterwizard]

Okay Steptoe, I'll tell you the whole story. Preparing a trip to Madrid (300 miles), I changed the oil and oil filter. I put 3.75 liters of oil, and filled a bit more to get the center of the oilsight glass (first mistake, do not check the level with the oil warmed). When I arrived to Madrid, I parked in the hotel's underground parking and, with the little light there was, I saw that the sight glass was brownish and not even could see the red circle or the holes in the metal back of the glass. In my confusion, I thought I had lost oil and the sight glass had been "burned" inside, turning opaque. So I proceeded to fill a little more of oil trying to see any change through the glass, but nothing. The next day, looking with a flashlight, looked the same, so I fill a little more. Thus began my journey back home, constantly looking to the oil temperature and checking the oil warning light. Finally, when I got home, with sunlight, I realized my mistake. No oil was missing, was too full! At the end it was almost a liter of oil more that it had.

 

[MMC]

Amazing the abuse these old tanks'll take, huh?