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Marmalade
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PostPosted: 09:10 - 06 Sep 2011    Post subject: XT600e Reply with quote

Would the twin light set from the 600 tenere fit the normal xt600e?

Also, (only collected it last night and not looked in the daylight yet) How do you check and top up the oil?
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PostPosted: 10:18 - 06 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure on the headlight but knows somewhere that will https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/yamaha-tech/

The oil checking I know.

First you need to remove the plastic cover between the tank and the handlebars. The oil filler is underneath.

Get the bike warm, preferably from riding, with the bike upright unscrew the oil filler cap/dipstick a bit, turn bike off, take out dipstick, wipe it clean, drop dipstick back in but don't screw it in, take out and read oil level.
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PostPosted: 15:18 - 06 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Read in various places that after an oil change you'll need to add more than stated.

If, like me, you're baffled about how to get the tool kit out when it requires a screw undoing. Then look at the metal end of your key, it is designed (or rather the nut selected) so that it will undo with the key.

Also the nut that holds the plastic cover in place for the oil filer is the same as the panel nut so I guess it is designed to be removed using the key also. Make sure you don't do it up tight Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:42 - 07 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Charlie wrote:
Read in various places that after an oil change you'll need to add more than stated


I've found that I have to add a little bit more than the 2.8 litres that the manual recommends after the oil and filter change.

If you need to put lots of extra oil in then you probably haven't got the knack of measuring the oil level quite right. If the bike isn't properly warmed up the dipstick can show the oil level as being lower than it really is.

This leads to people over-filling their bikes.
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PostPosted: 23:22 - 07 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm waiting for a filter to turn up, glad i read this or i'd have lobbed a load of oil into the empty looking tank in the morning.
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PostPosted: 05:51 - 08 Sep 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Marmalade wrote:
I'm waiting for a filter to turn up, glad i read this or i'd have lobbed a load of oil into the empty looking tank in the morning.


A blatant plug but out of boredom I've made a site, www.motorbiketravels.com which includes a guide on how to do an oil and filter change and has some manuals available for download that might help.
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