Low Oil Crisis!

veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

Basically, checked the Oil on my 2001 CG125 last night and the oil is exactly at the minimum level (The bottom of the cross hatching)

I HAD to ride it into work this morning unfortunately, and I've never filled up the oil before, so I don't know what oil is in there (Can't contact the previous owner)

What should I do? I don't really want to ride it back again at min oil as I'm sure it's not doing it much good?

Should I just bite the bullet and buy Castrol 10w40?

Do I put the oil in where the dipstick goes or would that be bad?

Cheers,

Toby

mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

The oil goes in the dipstick hole. While riding a CG with low oil won't kill it immediately, eventually it will nip up. I'd just bite the bullet and get some Castrol GTX. Ideally the oil wants replacing every 1000-1500 miles.

I myself have reverted to stuff which costs £3 a gallon rather than £10, and haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. After mine seized due to my huge stupidity, I emptied the oil and only got 300ml, from a 1.1 litre sump. Embarassed

It was being mercilessly thrashed all the time too and had been running like that for a good few hundred miles before the problem really occured. It had been giving me signs which I merrily ignored too. Doh!

Still, it runs as well as it ever did now, with just an oil change.
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Any oil is better than no or low oil. I would also use GTX in a CG125, it is much better quality that what they were originally designed to run on anyway.
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veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

Well what I've been doing to check the oil is stand the bike on the centrestand, and start it up and let it run for a couple of minutes, giving it a few revs, and then shutting it down and checking the oil straight away, is this right?

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veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

Oh, bollocks, crisis over then Smile

mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 May 2004 Karma :

You can tell if it is really having a problem with low oil, it will be more noisy and hotter than normal, and if it is getting to the seizing stage, it will usually shudder and hiccup as it nips up a little. Mine only seized after 1/2 an hour on WOT with bugger all oil in, though I might have been lucky. Smile

CG engines are tough little buggers.
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bish777 · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Karma :

Over the last 6 months of unemployment, i learned that its better to change oil for the £7 quid a gallon stuff rather than leaving the oil in for another 5000 miles.

Keeping changes regular is more importnant than what you put in, especially for a bike like the CG. It would probably be perfectly happy with 2.50 a gallon 20/50 super cheapo, as long as you change it every two thousand miles.
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kiss_my_shiny_metal_ass · L Plate Warrior Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Karma :

buy 4 stroke oil mate and there should be a different tank for the oil and u can bleed the remanding oil out of it and put in the new stuff thats if its a four stroke if its not, then buy 2 stroke and do the same with that , but u dont have to bleed it u can just put the new stuff in