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| Newbie Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 5
| Hi fellow M50 owners: 3 questions... 1. I just picked up a used M50 tonight, and upon riding home the oil temp indicator warning light came on. I had only been riding for 10 minutes, and the temp outside in Seattle was only around 55 degrees or so. What are the usual culprits when this comes on? 2. I believe that this may be related to #1. How do I check what is the proper amount of oil to be in the bike? When standing the bike upright (straight up and down), my wife told me that she sees oil only half way up the little circular window. Is that enough, or should that window be completely full of oil? 3. What kind of oil does this bike take? Yes, you can tell I don't have an owners manual. ANY help you all can hook me up with ASAP, I'd be thankful - I'm hoping to ride this bike 200 miles tomorrow but probably won't if I've got oil temp problems. |
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| Clutch Cadet ![]() Joined: Jul 2006
Bike: 2006 Suzuki M50 Candy Grand Blue with 42,050 miles since May 18th 2006
Location: Tacoma ,Washington
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__________________ Twenty years from now,you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do ,than by the things you did. Get out there, go someplace,see something new,try something different! Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. Last edited by DragonRider; 08-17-2006 at 03:52 AM. | |
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| Et cetera ad nauseum ![]() Joined: Dec 2003
Bike: 2002 Bandit 1200 S
Location: St. Cloud, MN, USA
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| Mercy, where's your owners manual, man?!
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| Newbie Joined: Aug 2006
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| Thanks DragonRider, appreciate it. Yeah, I need to find a place to buy an owners manual (anyone know where I could get one?). So, the little thermometer sticking out of the wavy lines is the water temp gauge? Excellent, thanks for letting me know. |
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| It's A Conspiracy ![]() Joined: May 2005
Bike: '06 XB12X
Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer
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You get there, buy the bike, and ask the guy where the manual and the spare key is. All you get in return is some muttering, a shrugging of the shoulders, and a half-hearted poking around the garage looking for a manual he knows he won't find.
__________________ Song Pick of the Week 11/12 Metallica - The Day That Never Comes I had no idea 20% ABV beer could get me drunk so fast! | |
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| Clutch Cadet ![]() Joined: Jul 2006
Bike: 2006 Suzuki M50 Candy Grand Blue with 42,050 miles since May 18th 2006
Location: Tacoma ,Washington
Posts: 917
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__________________ Twenty years from now,you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do ,than by the things you did. Get out there, go someplace,see something new,try something different! Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. | |
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| Et cetera ad nauseum ![]() Joined: Dec 2003
Bike: 2002 Bandit 1200 S
Location: St. Cloud, MN, USA
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| It's A Conspiracy ![]() Joined: May 2005
Bike: '06 XB12X
Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer
Posts: 10,054
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Back when I was a teen, my buddy bought one. I was always amazed at the power that bike had compared to mine. I had an '81 MX175 that was really, really, really tired out!!! (Shh...don't tell anyone, but in six years, nobody told me how to properly maintain a bike....
__________________ Song Pick of the Week 11/12 Metallica - The Day That Never Comes I had no idea 20% ABV beer could get me drunk so fast! | |
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| TurtleWax Taster ![]() Joined: Sep 2005
Bike: 2002 Honda 919
Location: St. Louis
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__________________ Life's short and hard, like a body building elf. | |
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| It's A Conspiracy ![]() Joined: May 2005
Bike: '06 XB12X
Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer
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Hey dude! Welcome back! You wouldn't believe the abuse I gave to my MX....I never had that problem with the fuel, and I forgot to turn the fuel off all the time. I'd let it sit all winter, no fuel stablilizer, no nothing. Come spring, two kicks, and it'd fire up! I'd truck it somewhere, in the back of the truck bed on it's side. Hell....I didn't change the crankcase oil for five years!!! When I did, it was the color of paper!! Ran the knobbies bald. Spokes were broken on the wheels, sprockets were missing teeth, chain was stretched out. Funny with the oil. It had that oil injection system on the side. I went to a buddies house and he was changing his oil. I pat my tank and say something to the effect of, "That must be a %%%%%. All I gotta do is add oil to the side here and I'm good to go." He waited until I went in the house for something, and cracked the crankcase, I came back out to see this white fluid pouring out of the bottom of my bike. Up until that point, I had no one that rode, no one to show me maintenance, or anything about bikes. I had to glean what I could during study hall in the library at school from copies of Motor Cyclist. I thoroughly abused (I then realized), up until that point, and was summarily impressed at the quality of the bike.
__________________ Song Pick of the Week 11/12 Metallica - The Day That Never Comes I had no idea 20% ABV beer could get me drunk so fast! | |
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