New rotella is in and bike is running between my legs as we speak. I'm just curious, when you drain all of the old oil and put the new in how is everything lubed up for when you start it? Or is there just enough residual oil on the cam and cylinder walk just until New oil gets pumped through the system.

Ahh, I went a hair above the upper mark on the oil with the bike vertical. When I say a hair, it's barely over it. This couldn't hurt anthything, am I right?

Thanks, that's a good trick.

What is that link highlighted area? Spot for an oil cooler?

Hmmm, a bathtub you say, yeah, I get what you're sayin now with the oil always staying in contact with the cam. So you can never get all the old oil out unless you do a full rebuild, or if you flip the bike upside down...

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You're a good guy, thanks for the guidance on this lovely bike of mine. I'd rather come here than the local mech, cause he really doesn't know the savage as well as everyone on here does. I'd think he would fall down if he knew I put rotella in. I now know that that's the best oil to use, and I've only heard good things about it.

Hey, this may be off topic, but a while back, I managed to strip one of  my exhaust stud holea in my head probably about 2/3 of the way in, I was able to catch about a 1/2 inch, maybe of threads at the end that we're still good and untouched.what I did was went out and found the longest stainless m8x1.25 bolt and took the head off of it, essentially making it into a stud. I cleaned both the hole and the stud with carb cleaner and compressed air and applied red threadlocker to the stud to set it in the head. Now I just slide that clamp over the two studs and put lock nuts on. Do you think I run the risk of pulling the threads out of the hole I buggered up? Or should I not worry about it. It's also been like that for about 10 months now.

It might not even be a half inch that I'm catching, could be less, but not by much.

IMHO, I feel very comfortable with the studs in there, well the one that isn't stripped. I'd do it if I were you. I personally am not a huge fan of how crumbly aluminum gets.

Do you think that threadlocker would ever burn out? I think it goes up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.