How about dripping oil right onto the rear tire? That could get your attention too, if you think a bit about it.
Yes I realised that, but these were just tiny drips (the dregs or remnants of a more obvious drain)
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How about dripping oil right onto the rear tire? That could get your attention too, if you think a bit about it.
Wow, thanks for the heads up! I bought my bike used and did not know about the bung in the clear plastic drain tube. Sure enough, a parts search showed one. I cringe thinking how much dust it has sucked in already. Off to the hardware store I go.Just a heads up for everyone who overfills their engine oil (Yes I've done it also), but from what I can see, the drain hole that leads from air box to the clear plastic pipe that hangs under the bike lies *behind* the air filter, i.e. on the throttle intake clean air side rather than the dirty air side. Why is this important? Well a few weeks ago I removed the rubber "bung" that caps the end of the plastic pipe to let the oil drain away, but never put it back (I thought it would be easier to let small drops of excess oil drain away as it builds up rather than keep checking). It suddenly came to me in a premanition that I could be sucking unfiltered air into the engine via the uncapped pipe. I've just put it back - duhhhh!!!
Hi, I'm planning to get this removed so that the gearbox oil change becomes easier. Is there a downside doing so?If you remove the plastic shroud on the shaft drive (at first tyre change for example), you can replace the oil whenever you wish without removing the wheel.
Considering you have to tear the engine appart for that valve job on the R1 , you’ll appreciate how simple the job is on the Guzzi…I guess I'll take the opportunity of this thread to vent a bit.
Gripe #1 is that it would have been MUCH easier to add engine oil if the dipstick had been put on the opposite side of the bike from the sidestand. Although, maybe there is a reason that would have been unfeasible?
Gripe #2 is that motorcycles in general seem to require much more frequent servicing than modern automobiles. For instance, the pickup that I bought new a couple of years ago would likely go for several hundred thousand miles without ever having the oil changed in the rear differential. Same with the spark plugs, though they likely would not last quite that long. Valve adjustments? We had the valves adjusted in my wife's Honda Element at 175,000 miles. It had run fine all of that time. BTW, I had a 2005 Yamaha R1 with a redline of nearly 14,000rpm, yet its valve adjustment intervals were 26,000 miles (if I remember correctly), yet a low rpm Moto Guzzi has a valve adjustment interval of 6,000 miles!?
OK, rant over for now. Feel free to jump in here and tell me how motorcycles can't be compared to automobiles.