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Art, You really should know where the oil level is when COLD on the side stand,......if you would like to use that method.
And you really should see oil in the site glass when cold on the SS. If no oil shows, there is no advantage to using the SS method...right? So you would have 2 choices,......add more oil till you do see it, or don't use the SS method. IMO, more oil is better, if your bike can handle it w/o blowing oil. Hopefully after you let yours drain down overnite, you will see the oil level in the site glass, and don't have to worry about adding, if you don't want to.
In doing the hot test, I think mine was a bit too full on oil,.....but in who's opinion I don't know who came up w/ the hot test, or how. All I know it that my standard bike is on...or right at the low line, and it IS NOT too much oil. I didn't have to "feel" this out, because when I bought mine at a dealer, it was between the 2 lines on the SS, which I thought at the time was the proper way to check it.
If it was me, I would keep adding oil a touch at a time till it showed in the window, always checking for any blowing oil in the air filter area.
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