Since engine death lives somewhere below the lower edge of the sight glass I for one cannot understand folks not filling their bikes up to the upper edge of the sight glass window when they fill up after an oil change.   They actually only put it half way up the window ...

This is a reality check for all you guys choosing to live too close to the edge of oil pressure loss due to not having enough oil in the crankcase == you can actually go to the tippy top of the glass and slightly beyond without hurting anything.

Your reality check is this.   Get someone to sit on your bike while you look at the sight glass and then tell them to start 'er up.  You watch while your oil level drops WAY BELOW THE WINDOW as all the oil goes into circulation in the head and gearbox.  It drops an entire widow width's worth and more when you start it.  

THERE IS LOTS OF ROOM IN THAT CRANKCASE BELOW THE SPLASH SHELF THAT SHIELDS THE ROTATING CRANK WHEELS FROM THE OIL SUPPLY.

Me, I fill mine up so the oil just peeps over the bottom of the window when on the sidestand, that way I can easily visually check the oil every time I simply look at that side of the bike.

Plus I have me a little extra oil reserve should I NOT see any oil in the window as I approach -- I jest put her upright and low and behold the oil level will be somewhere in the good zone and I now have my extra time to get some more oil in there with zero chance of any low oil damage.

Since you consume a quarter quart a month you don't ever need to change your synthetic oil -- you are "replacing" it on a rotating basis.

If you were a cheap bastard you'd go ahead and put that furnace oil filtration unit on your bike down where the airbox/charcoal canister would go with the exit going up to the tap point you jest put in your head cover.

Your bypass filtration oil flow would be a parallel path to your head bearings, would be cool well filtered oil that got used in a critical area a NO NET PRESSURE/VOLUME LOSS TO YOUR MAIN OILING SYSTEM WHATSOEVER.  

The filtered flow volume would be enough to keep your oil charge particulate level down way below what Savages generally keep, so your oil would last longer and the bike would too.

Then just replace the Klotz as it gets oozed/burned/sucked out of your bike and don't worry about changing anything but your two oil filters about once every year or so.   The Klotz would burn gracefully (pretty much soot & smoke free) especially if it really is the same stuff they sell as two stroke oil.

Then, after 5-10 years you could put enough miles on your oil (which would be quietly replaced multiple times on a reasonable schedule by simple useage) to make the claim to have "put 100,000 miles on a single crankcase load of Klotz".


That would make Bill all happy ....  


    .... you could become a testimonial on the Klotz web page too.


                 

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 05/11/10 at 17:02:49:



Wouldn't more oil take longer to come up to temperature?

knew I forgot mention something... case of klotz 20w50 on hand for the summer run.