Hello,
Hope everyone is doing great. I finally got around to performing my first ever oil change, and I feel accomplished as all hell (come at my noobiness!). I went by the book: drained old oil properly and for 6 or minutes, installed new aluminum crush washer, K&N filter and added ~3 QTS of Shell Rotella T6 (everything torqued to correct specs). Now, I put the bike on a rear stand, started it up and let it idle for ~4 mins, and then shut it off. After 3 mins, checked the oil level through the sight glass and what I saw is attached below.
I know new oil generally tends to be transparent-ish (factoring in light gold hue), but this here looks severely underfilled to me. I let the bike sit for about 10 more minutes, and repeated the start engine and check after few minutes procedure... Still same results.
Is this oil super new to the point where it's completely transparent and I may have overfilled? Or, is it legit underfilled? I addee about a cup more of oil and repeated. But no dice again. There are no oil leaks present after observing for quite the while as well. Now, I must resort to seeking the masters' guidance.
Kudos in advance.
EDIT: Attachment system acting up. One sec... *facepalm*
EDIT 2: IMGUR TO THE RESCUE!
Hope everyone is doing great. I finally got around to performing my first ever oil change, and I feel accomplished as all hell (come at my noobiness!). I went by the book: drained old oil properly and for 6 or minutes, installed new aluminum crush washer, K&N filter and added ~3 QTS of Shell Rotella T6 (everything torqued to correct specs). Now, I put the bike on a rear stand, started it up and let it idle for ~4 mins, and then shut it off. After 3 mins, checked the oil level through the sight glass and what I saw is attached below.
I know new oil generally tends to be transparent-ish (factoring in light gold hue), but this here looks severely underfilled to me. I let the bike sit for about 10 more minutes, and repeated the start engine and check after few minutes procedure... Still same results.
Is this oil super new to the point where it's completely transparent and I may have overfilled? Or, is it legit underfilled? I addee about a cup more of oil and repeated. But no dice again. There are no oil leaks present after observing for quite the while as well. Now, I must resort to seeking the masters' guidance.
Kudos in advance.
EDIT: Attachment system acting up. One sec... *facepalm*
EDIT 2: IMGUR TO THE RESCUE!