Holy no oil
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:50 am
Well my bike started sounding funny past couple days and I have been trying to find the time to buy the stuff needed to do the 16k mile service on my bike but time is hard to come by. I never checked the oil on this bike since I bought it the 25th of July. Anyways I just got time and a chance to change the oil in this bike and well I was in for a surprise. This bike requires 3.9 quarts of oil (just shy of 1 gallon). I got 1/2 gallon of oil out of the thing. the dipstick had no oil on it and it was quit dirty. Guy only put just shy of 2k miles on it since he bought it (I am the 3rd owner) and he replaced the oil last fall (thus why I really wanted to get it done). Bike is back to sounding normal but I still gotta find time to finish doing the 16k service lol. So for all you newbies CHECK YOUR OIL EVERYTIME YOU GET GAS. It is habit for me to do so in my van just for some reason I havent been doing it on my bike.
Oh and I forgot to mention the moron must not know how to use a wrench (or the place he took it to) cause the oil bolt has just about all the edges rounded off.
Oh and I forgot to mention the moron must not know how to use a wrench (or the place he took it to) cause the oil bolt has just about all the edges rounded off.