| Author | Message | ||
     Rek |
How much oil should an '00 S3 consume w/in a given amount of time? Say 500 miles? Mine seems to lose a few ounces every tank of gas. It doesn't leak and doesn't appear to come out the exhaust. I haven't been checking it as religously as recommended. On a trip last month I didn't check it for 1800 miles and was a quart low. Today I checked it after 600 miles and it's a little less than 1/2 a quart low. Normal wear and tear for a motor w/ over 40K miles? Or something I should look into? Rob | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Mine has always eaten oil from day one. About the same rate you describe. I can see it at night in front of the headlight beam in traffic. My friend has an XB12 and it doesn't do anything with oil. | ||
| Tramp |
My old S2 burns very, very little oil at all... I've always been anal about sufficient warmup upon starting and low RPM running for the first few minutes, I attribute my unnoticeable consumtion to these practices... | ||
| Sportyeric |
Normal wear and tear. Unless you see it coming out the exhaust. Nate's probably seeing blowby from the beathers, if they'e been re-routed out of the airfilter. If I'm not down a quart of oil in 1000 miles I start to wonder if its getting diluted by gas or something. | ||
| Djkaplan |
My oil consumption seems to be related to ambient temperature. I can rail all day in the cool of the mountains and not lose a drop, but a couple of stop and go commutes on a hot summer day will increase oil consumption. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Mine's not coming from the breathers. I seperated that from the equation. It is coming from my exhaust. I purchased mine from Boston H-D as a demo bike. It had 500 miles and was "assured" that it was broken in correctly. sure..... | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
OH! and my consumption is also related to high temps. In colder temps, it is reduced. | ||
| Rek |
Darn, that means I'll have to check it more regularly now. The tempuature does make a difference it seems, as I got lax during the cool spring months since it didn't use any/much and now that its hot out I'm using a little more. Thanks, Rob | ||
| Tramp |
"My oil consumption seems to be related to ambient temperature. I can rail all day in the cool of the mountains and not lose a drop, but a couple of stop and go commutes on a hot summer day will increase oil consumption." it's that hot weather 'stop and go' that's tearing up your AIR-COOLED engine... as to: "Normal wear and tear... If I'm not down a quart of oil in 1000 miles I start to wonder if its getting diluted by gas or something" that's bizarre- I don't lose a pint for 2 or 3 thousand.... something's rotten in denmark with that Buell.... | ||
| Phillyblast |
The S2 used very little oil, even railing on it on the highway. I'm not as religious about warmup as Tramp, but I never saw any excessive consumption - maybe a half quart between changes if I really hammered on it in hot weather. New top end, breaking it in, so I'll keep you posted. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
"something's rotten in denmark with that Buell" Yes. Probably broken in "with extreme predjudice" in the demo program. Its oil consumption went down after sheldon's plugged all of the holes but it still eats some. I have to check it say once a week or 600 miles or whatever. no biggie. | ||
| Tramp |
sound likely. I've accidentally trolled up some fiery arguments on other Buell sites (say it ain't SO, Tramp) by mere mention of the fact that I still do my break-in on hills with NO static idle, and with a VERY used airfilter (saved for this purpose) and a stock muffler, with continual, overkill oil changing (plenty of metal each time) for the first 500 miles. I never tell others to do this (unless they're running engines I've built), I've merely found it gifts me with engines that burn incredibly little oil and keep on going. what can I tell you? I'm Old-School... OK- now i gotta head out to my first violin lesson since I was 9 years old. Gotta keep the old Coconut active and challenged... |
