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Posted by Tfrank59
- March 22, 2018, 20:20:07 PMYeah Welcome to The Forum. I just had a thread about how do you guys check your oil you might want to read some of the posts. I know one thing if my oil is too clean like when I just changed it it's really hard to see it. it's hard to tell if the sight glass is completely full or completely empty. So solution is keep your oil dirty haha. No seriously, I sit on my bike and I use a mirror and if I need to a flashlight in the same hand and then balance the bike and I can see my oil level pretty well
Posted by Pilgrim
- March 22, 2018, 14:52:50 PMYou are either seeing too much oil that is completely covering the sightglass or too little oil which would not show in the sightglass. Have someone slowly raise the bike off the kickstand while you watch the sightglass and you should see the oil come up on the glass, if you do not see any oil come up, then you are low. There is a mark about 2/3 way up on glass and that is where your level should be.
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Posted by whysam
- March 22, 2018, 13:44:10 PMI have a Drifter 800, 2005. I figured out a way to get my bike perpendicular to gravity, but when I look at the sight glass, I can't see any "column" in the middle. The whole thing just looks black. A flashlight doesn't help, I just see the reflection of the flashlight or something else outside the bike. Is it just lower in volume than the sight glass can display? Is there some easier and more effective way to get enough light on the glass?