1 Synthetic oil or overfilling Sun Jun 25, 2017 8:09 pm
AndrewP
active member
Hi Guys,
Bought a K100rs 1985 model bit rough on the outside and very rough idle, anyway spruced her up a bit, new plugs, battery and cleaned up the Injection processor connection plug and she rides really nicely now so I decided to renovate this one back to original state.
Just completed an oil and filter change and while waiting for the oil to come to the sight glass I missed it and over filled her. Started her up to get oil into the new filter to see if I would then be at MAX on the sight glass, unfortunately still over. Emptied about 1 litre out to MAX on the sight glass, all seemed well with the bike.
Done a couple of shortish rides and now each time I start her there is quite a lot of smoke and she is now running a little rough, not as bad as when I bought her but rough all the same.
I treated the bike to PENRITE fully synthetic 15W- 50, do these bikes not agree with fully synthetic ? or is the overfilling stuffed up the bike ? is the running rough just a coincidence ?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew
Bought a K100rs 1985 model bit rough on the outside and very rough idle, anyway spruced her up a bit, new plugs, battery and cleaned up the Injection processor connection plug and she rides really nicely now so I decided to renovate this one back to original state.
Just completed an oil and filter change and while waiting for the oil to come to the sight glass I missed it and over filled her. Started her up to get oil into the new filter to see if I would then be at MAX on the sight glass, unfortunately still over. Emptied about 1 litre out to MAX on the sight glass, all seemed well with the bike.
Done a couple of shortish rides and now each time I start her there is quite a lot of smoke and she is now running a little rough, not as bad as when I bought her but rough all the same.
I treated the bike to PENRITE fully synthetic 15W- 50, do these bikes not agree with fully synthetic ? or is the overfilling stuffed up the bike ? is the running rough just a coincidence ?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew