{"id":247,"date":"2010-09-22T20:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-09-23T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:46:09","slug":"viscosity-siphoning-test-10-40-oil-vs-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Viscosity siphoning test: 10\u201340 oil vs. gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Draining<\/a>

Drain\u00ading into pan #2, who woul\u00adda thunk it??<\/p><\/div>\n

On my Ore\u00adgon bike jour\u00adney I checked the oil lev\u00adel on the bike for the first time in Bend. Alas, the cir\u00adcu\u00adlar 3\/4\u2033 win\u00addow in the crankcase to mon\u00adi\u00adtor the \u201cH\u201cigh and \u201cL\u201cow lev\u00adels was com\u00adplete\u00adly emp\u00adty. So I found and rode to a cycle shop and added a quart of oil. Right up to the \u201cH\u201cigh mark, great. I lat\u00ader added 12 more ounces in Ashland.<\/p>\n

Upon arriv\u00ading home I put the bike on its cen\u00adter stand for the first time since leav\u00ading. YIKES<\/span>!<\/strong><\/em> The mon\u00adi\u00adtor\u00ading win\u00addow was com\u00adplete\u00adly full, way above the \u201cH\u201cigh mark. How far above? I could not tell. I emailed this obser\u00adva\u00adtion to friend Jeff and he respond\u00aded thus: \u201cWhen you are check\u00ading the oil lev\u00adel, are you sure the bike is lev\u00adel? I don\u2019t think you can check it on the side-stand. It needs to be checked on the cen\u00adter stand. Anoth\u00ader thing: I\u2019ve heard, for small engines, too much oil is way more dan\u00adger\u00adous than not enough oil. You might want to con\u00adsid\u00ader drain\u00ading it to the right level.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes\u00adter\u00adday I decid\u00aded to fol\u00adlow Jef\u00adf\u2019s advice and remove the extra oil. It turns out that the nice skid plate I added under the engine goes not allow for a grace\u00adful reduc\u00adtion of oil quan\u00adti\u00adty. So I elect\u00aded to try and siphon out the extra oil and went off to an auto parts store and pur\u00adchased three feet of 1\/4\u2033 fuel hose. Return\u00ading home I got a nice quart pan (the yel\u00adlow one above) and went at it. Start\u00ading a siphon with 10\u201340 oil is some\u00adwhat dif\u00adfer\u00adent than with gaso\u00adline or water \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It took me about five tries to get it flow\u00ading to the yel\u00adlow pan along with the usu\u00adal treat of some flu\u00adid in my mouth. 10\u201340 oil also flows MUCH<\/span> slow\u00ader than gas or water, at first I did not think it was flow\u00ading at all. But 25 or 30 min\u00adutes lat\u00ader the yel\u00adlow pan was full, yet there was no change in the mon\u00adi\u00adtor\u00ading win\u00addow so I employed pan #2. After anoth\u00ader 15 min\u00adutes the lev\u00adel in the win\u00addow was between the \u201cH\u201cigh and \u201cL\u201cow lev\u00adels so I stopped the siphon and poured oil care\u00adful\u00adly back into the bike until the lev\u00adel was right at the \u201cH\u201cigh mark.<\/p>\n

After fin\u00adish\u00ading up I took the bike off the cen\u00adter stand and put it on the side stand. The mon\u00adi\u00adtor\u00ading oil win\u00addow was com\u00adplete\u00adly emp\u00adty, just like in Bend. And how much oil did I end up remov\u00ading from the bike? As near as I could tell the total of the amounts I put in in Bend and Ash\u00adland. Kudos and thanks to friend Jeff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my Ore\u00adgon bike jour\u00adney I checked the oil lev\u00adel on the bike for the first time in Bend. Alas, the cir\u00adcu\u00adlar 3\/4\u2033 win\u00addow in the crankcase to mon\u00adi\u00adtor the \u201cH\u201cigh and \u201cL\u201cow lev\u00adels was com\u00adplete\u00adly emp\u00adty. So I found and rode to a cycle shop and added a quart of oil. Right up to [\u2026]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashecoutts.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}