GS1100GK oil volume with oil cooler

[sv650]

Well all you folks with these bikes & oil coolers -- how much additional oil needs to be added to compensate for the additional volume of oil that is in the cooler? My bike has a Lochart oil cooler, and no information about it's installation.

I assume that fillingto the 'full' level will be short of oil once running, but can figure no way to calculate additional volumes of oil.

SV

[Anonymous]

volume

see what the volume of the oil cooler is and and add one way to find out is take it off and fill with a quart and read the side measurement to know how much to put in

[Motorcyclemodeller]

I run a lockhart oil cooler, it takes about an extra 1/2 litre. I fill mine to the top of the sight glass when topping up. And add about an extra 1/2 litre when doing filter/oil changes.

8) Dr. Dre 8)

[sv650]

That's about what I'd guessed. When I first topped up the bike to the top mark, there seemed a husg drop in oil in the sight glass on startup. Adding the extrs half litre keeps oil in the bottom of the sight glass when running on the centerstand.

Thanks for the confirmation.

SV

I run a lockhart oil cooler, it takes about an extra 1/2 litre. I fill mine to the top of the sight glass when topping up. And add about an extra 1/2 litre when doing filter/oil changes.

8) Dr. Dre 8)

[saaz]

I would not go on where the level is when you start the bike, as the oil disappears below the sightglass normally when on the full mark.