Spamy wrote on 09/07/12 at 14:18:57:I add about 1/2 quart more than recommended to compensate for the difference of the motor angle. I dont want the gearbox to have any less oil.
You can keep the recommended amount of oil, still it is not bad to have a LITTLE more oil added. A half quart seems to me to be the absolute peak value of oil to be added.
The oil pump sits nearly right in the center of the engine's floor and that's the point all the oil flows back. If you tilt the engine a good bit, nothing changes in this meaning. Only the sight glass moves up!
Fill in the recommended amount, add a bit and make some new marks for the oil level.
The
gearbox, crankshaft and all this is
provided with oil from the oil pump, so don't matter about this in case of tilting the engine a bit. The gears don't use oil from the oil sump by paddling in it. The bearings are fed from the oil gallery, and by leaving them it sprays around, and that way it lubricates the gears and shifting mechanism.
And what you see in the glass when the bike is idling is flowing oil which just left the gearshafts and being centrifugated by the clutch.
It is not an oil level. By tilting the engine the visible flow may change a bit, nothing else.
Every engine must overcome short times without oil pressure. Hard accelerations and quick stops belongs to that as well as starting the engine. Manageable moments for ball bearings anyway, but care of the camshaft journal bearings!
Running them without oil for period will ruin them quickly. So care for your oil level your own.