Just did my first few kilometres on the ten and noticed the bike consumes about 1 litre of oil per 5000 kms. Is this expected? My old klr would never drink that much!




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It shouldn't drink that much?

If its been/being over-filled than it is quite possible that a litre might well disappear in that distance, mostly into the airbox. Are you getting a lot of oil in the airbox drain tube?

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Air box is quite dry. Have not checked tube.

But I do check oil levels and they are within specs ie no overfill that I can tell.




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What oil is it? Mine would piss fully synth 10/40 but since I switched to 20/50 (after 60,000m) it hardly drinks any.

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Interesting....i was on motul 5100 10/40. Just about to replace with penrite 10/50.




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When you say 20/50, you talking mineral or semi synth?


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I use mineral purely because it is readlily available in N America and is cheap. Usually around $6 a litre. I would prefer Semi Synth but it is twice as much and difficult to find.

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