This just happened with my bike a few days ago
I had an oil leak from the front of my oil filter, one of those K&N ones with the shit non sized nut on that doesn't fit any socket. I think a stone may have hit around the outer disc which is joined to the nut causing it to leak.
Anyway, on refilling with oil i could not see ANYTHING in the oil window.
I used a torch, and kept pouring the oil, waiting to see something, but nothing, to the point i now realised i must have put too much in anyway. Started the engine as well, but the window just looks clear.
So as i'd started the engine i knew the new filter had oil in, so i emptied the sump completely then refilled it with 2.7 litres to be safe.
I've never ever needed to top up in between oil changes before, and i change it every 4000 miles, so i'm just gonna have to hope the levels are good for the duration as there's feck all i can do about the window.
On a side note, i mangled the head of my old original sump plug a while back so bought one of those replacement ones on Ebay with the magnet in the middle.
These have about half the amount of threads as an OEM one which i did find a bit odd, then found out the hard way that because of this it pulled about 3 threads out of my sump casing, and i was only doing it up by hand with a spanner. :'(
So i would suggest avoid buying one of those if you ever need one.
[size=1em]I then paid a tenner for some fancy bolt with an expandable rubber ring in the middle of the thread, but afterwards found that, rather surprisingly, OEM [/size][size=1em]bolts are only £5.35 delivered on the AJ Sutton site. [/size][size=1em]All sorted now though and my new bolt nipped up okay fortunately with no feel or sign of thread issues.[/size] :woot
I had an oil leak from the front of my oil filter, one of those K&N ones with the shit non sized nut on that doesn't fit any socket. I think a stone may have hit around the outer disc which is joined to the nut causing it to leak.
Anyway, on refilling with oil i could not see ANYTHING in the oil window.
I used a torch, and kept pouring the oil, waiting to see something, but nothing, to the point i now realised i must have put too much in anyway. Started the engine as well, but the window just looks clear.
So as i'd started the engine i knew the new filter had oil in, so i emptied the sump completely then refilled it with 2.7 litres to be safe.
I've never ever needed to top up in between oil changes before, and i change it every 4000 miles, so i'm just gonna have to hope the levels are good for the duration as there's feck all i can do about the window.
On a side note, i mangled the head of my old original sump plug a while back so bought one of those replacement ones on Ebay with the magnet in the middle.
These have about half the amount of threads as an OEM one which i did find a bit odd, then found out the hard way that because of this it pulled about 3 threads out of my sump casing, and i was only doing it up by hand with a spanner. :'(
So i would suggest avoid buying one of those if you ever need one.
[size=1em]I then paid a tenner for some fancy bolt with an expandable rubber ring in the middle of the thread, but afterwards found that, rather surprisingly, OEM [/size][size=1em]bolts are only £5.35 delivered on the AJ Sutton site. [/size][size=1em]All sorted now though and my new bolt nipped up okay fortunately with no feel or sign of thread issues.[/size] :woot
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