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Mine is a 2007 GSA. Do they have/need one of these? Do Touratech/Wunderlich do upgraded blingy ones? 
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Bendy toy
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I saw this in Halfords and thought fookit no need to change the oil - ever.
flytoolow
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Get a seal puller from Amazon . Had exactly the same problem last week. Get a seal puller and it comes out in seconds. Then a 30 mm socket and gently gently tap the new one back in. Use a piece of wood, but gently is the answer.
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
it would have been cold on the monday too, as bike was recovered. So in a short 50 mile ride it used/losst/.hid half the sight glass oil (500ml fronm top to bottom according to manual)...
Bendy toy
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When that sight glass blows you'll need a warning light or a new engine so make sure the oil level sender is working.
Here's the Aprilia solution not sure if its any more reliable
Here's the Aprilia solution not sure if its any more reliable
Be consistent Bendy, you've recently posted on the other thread that the Aprilia sight tube works well....When that sight glass blows you'll need a warning light or a new engine so make sure the oil level sender is working.
Here's the Aprilia solution not sure if its any more reliable
Alan R
JimVonBaden
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The sight glass on a Hexhead is glass with a retainer clip. I do not think I have ever seen one "blow" like on the 1100/1150.
Jim
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Bendy toy
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Be consistent Bendy, you've recently posted on the other thread that the Aprilia sight tube works well....
Alan R
I don't like any of the sight glass options. They all require grovelling on the floor with a flashlight/torch and all are woefully inaccurate if the bike isn't perfectly vertical. A car type dipstick solves the problems** for less manufacturing cost and easier for the user. But it's not the way bikes are done.
**Tilt a cup and water level rises on one side and falls on the other side - the middle level is unchanged. It's the same with a sump unless its a really strange shape and works fine on cars so why not on a bike.
two of my bikes have dipsticks - both are fairly hard to read, especially if the oil is clean. actually, the guzzi is almost impossible. probably as much a fault of the design of the dipstick but they are both messy.
KTM has a sight glass. works fine, no problem. the BMWs i have owned have been slightly harder to gauge due to the inconsistencies of the way that oil is returned to the sump.
KTM has a sight glass. works fine, no problem. the BMWs i have owned have been slightly harder to gauge due to the inconsistencies of the way that oil is returned to the sump.
Bendy toy
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Honda (bike) dip sticks are also rubbish as they sit on the clutch cover. Bike has to be level and the stick gets plastered so the level can't be seen. Cars have a long metal strip with two notches. Pull out, wipe, put back and pull out again. The level is easy to see. Why is it so hard for bike engine makers to do the same? Honda even make some quite good cars that have perfectly good and simple oil level detecting systems.
Roymondo
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I may be (probably am) out of date here, but all the Honda bikes I've owned had simple dipstick systems - With bike on level ground and engine off (stood for just a few minutes), unscrew filler cap and remove. Wipe dipstick and pop filler/dipstick back in (without screwing it into threads), then pull out and check reading on dipstick. Easy-peasy. The problem with various BMWs appears to be that they use some flavour of semi-dry sump with the oil reservoir in the engine but not really a conventional wet sump, so you have to follow the approved procedure to get a true reading.
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