I went to change the oil filter and found the oring missing. Its most likely been this way for a few thousand miles. Anyone have any expererince with something like this. The motor is noisy(which I believe is normal for these beasts) and some metal in the oil but it does run well. Best I can figure it was simply bypassing most of the filtration but should have getting full oil pressure.This bike I'm telling you has been a real PITA so far.

The bike runs perfect and really does impress me with the mid range torque. Thats where it really shines making it alot of fun to drive. The only issue that kinda scares me at times is the coming to a stop it  goes to neutral 90% of the time and then I have to either clutch it or jab the shifter hard to get back into 1st. In heavy traffic its a huge problem because instead of focusing on traffic I'm focusing on getting 1st gear. I'm using valvoline 10-40 and bought Rotella T6 5-40 to try in a few 100 miles.

The oil was the 1st thing I did before driving it but I didn't change the filter because the owner told me the dealer just serviced it end of 23. When I seen the glitter from the trans in the oil I figured I'd wait a few 100 miles then change the filter. I think the dealer didn't service the bike because no dealer in their right mind would chance putting such a huge tire in the back without at least checking tire clearance. I spoke to my local dealer and told me the stock tire barely fits in there.

I'm replacing the rear shocks with Intruder shocks AND a new Intruder  Speedometer  so I have a odometer. If the speedo works out ok I'll post up a few pictures of how to do it for anyone who's interested. So far its looking very good. Thanks for the replies. Ken

Using Valvoline motorcycle oil, the speedo is working out fine so far. Gotta check the calibration and if its close I'm good to go. Nice to have a odometer, without it I feel very uneasy never had a motorcycle without one. I've driven over 100k miles on every thing from a honda 125 to a Harley D Heritage I've never had a bike do anything like this. I can't imagine a novice rider on this bike with the trans acting like this. It bit me quite a few times that I'm jammin on it hard before before I come to a stop and if I see green I immediately bail to the right side off the road. Gotta be careful with that too because here to can right turn on red so if you get some jockey turning right you could get hit badly. I talked to the local dealer about it but they only see 3-4 savages a year and couldn't remember if they ever had this trouble. I found a low miles bike chopped up for a engine(was gonna swap it out) but I waited too long and it sold. I may look some more at the end of the season, maybe find something OR if I can find some local who has the same bike to try if it does the same for me. Its really strange because its sorta back and forth, sometimes very bad and others times ok. Tomorrow gonna be 85 degrees , gonnahead out for a long ride someplace and see if its worse in the heat or not. The clutch feels right, plenty of free play both ways. Also I can kick guts out of it and will not slip no matter how hard I drive it. Second to third WOT power shifting it tries to jerk me off the handlebars its that strong.    

I didn't measure it, went to the dealer.