can i change the oil on the side stand and still get all the oil out?

[trbig]

Perhaps I am just lucky, or my garage floor is just enough slope outside??

The carbs are.. or should be.. pretty level as mounted on the engine. It would take very little to get the gas to run backwards. Most of the time, just sitting it on the sidestand is enough to get it to lean backwards enough to get this done. The guys that park their bikes on the center stand, raising the back tire up while the front is on the ground... is all the fuel needs to run towards the engine.


Tod

[DGXSER]

Just call me lucky, or quick enough it never made it past the rings in any quantity. All my work was done on the centerstand. Not sure I have ever had it on the sidestand and had the issue come up.

And no, my garage floor is not THAT sloped.

[trbig]

And no, my garage floor is not THAT sloped.

Then get your stinkin carbs in there straight in the boots, man!! Maybe with the sloped head on your shoulders, they appeared straight?

The center stand only raises the rear tire a little bit. Mine is still very close to touching when on it. It doesn't take much of a slope to get a liquid to run one way or the other... so yours may still run towards the back when on the stand. Either that, or your cylinders had all they could hold already..


Tod

[mason79]

i understand that the 1,2 cylinders get hit with the pressure first ( fuel leaks) if on the side stand and creates a cycle of deterioration, which was exactly the case when i first acquired the bike, the floats on 1 and 2 in that order 1 being worse. had rusty holes in them.

i don't know what caused my brain lapse but i did leave the petcock open, conceivably i could just leave it closed, as the left side still has a stock vacume operated petcock and is t'd to both carb banks. eliminating that snafu, and i could open the manual on low fuel scenarios, oh well, just my fidgeting.

it was on the side stand and there was no real way to determine if any gas made it down the cylinders, but it did not want to start and when it did 3 and 4 caught first and with protracted coaxing 2 and then 1 came alive.

i think they got wet, from my experience gas takes a long time to evaporate even if left to the atmosphere, so with a semi enclosed situation like that, i could take a long time to clear jmo.