Souds ok to me, I found that after 1 day like you it gos up and it will even keep going up after a few days after standing. Let it settle for 1/2 hour and use that as your guide, if you try too hard to get a perfect level when you look/measure after 1 day you will start to get oil light flash on fast acceleration.
Quote from: fazersharp on 04 September 2018, 11:59:55 amSouds ok to me, I found that after 1 day like you it gos up and it will even keep going up after a few days after standing. Let it settle for 1/2 hour and use that as your guide, if you try too hard to get a perfect level when you look/measure after 1 day you will start to get oil light flash on fast acceleration. Erm, no, don't let it settle for half an hour, 'cos that would be wrong!Do it the way I said above.
You should start the engine for a couple of minutes first, then switch off and let it settle, that's the level you measure at.
Quote from: darrsi on 04 September 2018, 03:04:21 pmQuote from: fazersharp on 04 September 2018, 11:59:55 amSouds ok to me, I found that after 1 day like you it gos up and it will even keep going up after a few days after standing. Let it settle for 1/2 hour and use that as your guide, if you try too hard to get a perfect level when you look/measure after 1 day you will start to get oil light flash on fast acceleration. Erm, no, don't let it settle for half an hour, 'cos that would be wrong!Do it the way I said above.Which was Quote from: darrsi on 04 September 2018, 11:11:34 amYou should start the engine for a couple of minutes first, then switch off and let it settle, that's the level you measure at. You never actually stated a settling time.
Quote from: fazersharp on 04 September 2018, 03:59:19 pmQuote from: darrsi on 04 September 2018, 03:04:21 pmQuote from: fazersharp on 04 September 2018, 11:59:55 amSouds ok to me, I found that after 1 day like you it gos up and it will even keep going up after a few days after standing. Let it settle for 1/2 hour and use that as your guide, if you try too hard to get a perfect level when you look/measure after 1 day you will start to get oil light flash on fast acceleration. Erm, no, don't let it settle for half an hour, 'cos that would be wrong!Do it the way I said above.Which was Quote from: darrsi on 04 September 2018, 11:11:34 amYou should start the engine for a couple of minutes first, then switch off and let it settle, that's the level you measure at. You never actually stated a settling time.Can you imagine taking your bike into a shop for an oil change and they charged you 30mins labour for waiting for it to settle? It will level out and settle in a couple of minutes tops.
Quote from: darrsi on 04 September 2018, 04:37:01 pmQuote from: fazersharp on 04 September 2018, 03:59:19 pmQuote from: darrsi on 04 September 2018, 03:04:21 pmQuote from: fazersharp on 04 September 2018, 11:59:55 amSouds ok to me, I found that after 1 day like you it gos up and it will even keep going up after a few days after standing. Let it settle for 1/2 hour and use that as your guide, if you try too hard to get a perfect level when you look/measure after 1 day you will start to get oil light flash on fast acceleration. Erm, no, don't let it settle for half an hour, 'cos that would be wrong!Do it the way I said above.Which was Quote from: darrsi on 04 September 2018, 11:11:34 amYou should start the engine for a couple of minutes first, then switch off and let it settle, that's the level you measure at. You never actually stated a settling time.Can you imagine taking your bike into a shop for an oil change and they charged you 30mins labour for waiting for it to settle? It will level out and settle in a couple of minutes tops. Probably makes little difference 2 mins or 30 maybe you should of said 30mins was not necessary rather than plain wrong. But it will carry on draining down with the sight level going up for another 48 hours.Also when you tip in some extra oil its easy to over do it because even that takes time to fully get down. I find putting in an egg cup full at a time helps
what i meant by little difference 2 mins or 30 is that most of the oil that is not down there will be down after a few mins so looking after 30 wont be that different to 2. i was rying to but at time on it as your original post only said a few mins, funny enough exactly the same as the manual. its easier to add an egg cup full if the light flickers on than it is to take some out.i would say that the term- a few mins, is longer than 2 but shorter than 5 unless its mrs sharp getting ready and then i take a few to be 30
Done an oil and filter change about 4 weeks ago, put in about 2.7 litres and never bothered to look at the little window because on my bike it looks like the bottom of a bottle of Newcastle brown ale regardless how much or how little oils in there. If the red light comes on going uphill at WFO, I also put in an egg cup full, starting with a quails egg and rising to ostrich if needed.
Can you imagine taking your bike into a shop for an oil change and they charged you 30mins labour for waiting for it to settle? It will level out and settle in a couple of minutes tops.
If you do overfill , you can easily remove some oil by using the top half of one of those trigger operated sprays which usually contain cleaning fluid and are to be found under the household sink
'kin ell ! I thought for a bit you was going to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about oil levels