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Geoff · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:54 am Post subject: K1100RS Oil Consumption

During a recent trip my '96 K1100RS consumed about a half quart of oil every 700 miles. The bike has 33,430 miles. Is this normal consumption?
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:13 am Post subject:

Geoff,

My departed '93 RS would burn up a quart +/- in about 1000 miles in hotter weather, much less in spring and fall.

My non-technical solution was to run 45w oil in summer- 2 qts of 40w plus 2 qts of 50w. Seemed to decrease consumption somewhat.

But oil consumption seems to vary widely from one brick engine to the next. I expect any other responses to your post to run the spectrum.

John

BTW, like your avatar!!

Jim · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:00 am Post subject:

Geoff - the '97 I ride has used as much as a quart/1,000 miles - which is in spec, I think. Mine seems to do better with certain kinds of oil - I have it on Castrol Act*evo right now, it's not using as much. The K actually used more when I tried synthetic.

Just ride it and enjoy it.
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1997 K1100LTSE 94,000 - still has gremlins!
1995 R100RT Classic 16,650 crashed - repaired!
1992 K75RTP 46,000

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Ted · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:00 am Post subject:

My K11RS also burned a quart every 1k or so, less when I switched to synthetic. Two things made that go up, really hot weather and really spirited riding.

For some reason, it burned less when I retorqued the exhaust bolts, though that might have been some other reason.
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Flying Duck · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:21 pm Post subject:

Sounds a little on the high side to me but not OMFG high.
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Geoff · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the replies. Sounds like my consumption is normal. Guess I'll just have to carry more oil on road trips. I haven't done this since I rode an '83 (AMF era) Harley, which leaked.
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2008 H-D Electra Glide Ultra Classic

Flying Duck · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:50 pm Post subject:

FYI: I usually carry spare oil in a 20oz plastic Coke bottle.
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93 LT (x2)
94 RS
86-97 K75F(K75/100/1100 Frankenbrick)
86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
91 & 92 K75Ss
91 K1
86 custom K100
14 WR250R
IBA #17739 (SS1K, BBG, 50CC)
Buy parts HERE

Shoganai · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:46 pm Post subject:

Geoff · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:37 am Post subject:

Shoganai · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:52 am Post subject:

jr'sbmw · Big Brick Rider Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Fl

My old 85 K hardly went down at all in 4000 miles. My 97K uses at least a quart, if not more, in 4000?

Flying Duck · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:43 pm Post subject:

Geoff · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:49 am Post subject:

Shoganai · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:19 am Post subject:

supercat1 · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:18 pm Post subject:

on the trip to and from hungry mother 3 this year, 2200mi total trip:

my brothers (now sold Sad

) 93 k11rs used about 1qt total
my 93 k11rs used maybe a 1/4 qt. i had no need to add at any point in the trip nor have i needed to since.

apparently, though these bricks are likely to survive the nuclear holocaust and a zombie apocalypse, the oil usage is YMMV? i'll take that.
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Geoff · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:53 pm Post subject:

drikko · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject:

Phil Marvin · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:03 pm Post subject:

Hi,
I had 2 K1100LT's. The first one I bought with 14k miles on it and sold it with 124k on it. It used about 1 qt. every 3k miles. It mattered little whether I was going fast or slow, used conventional or synthetic, it still used a qt. every 3k miles. The second one was 10 years old when I bought it, and it had less han 5k miles on it. I ran 20w50 conventional oil (actually Soriana brand I bought in Mexico) until 20k miles and then switched to Mobil 1 15w50 synthetic. The oil level NEVER dropped, regardless of how I rode the bike! It died when I hit a deer at 65mph.
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Mystic Red · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:57 pm Post subject:

Mine has had synthetic in it since day one and it uses about a pint every 1000. I'm waiting for it to break in and the consumption to diminish. Smile

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garynali · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:19 am Post subject:

Gday All
Act of last resort, looked at the manual. For both RS and LT max consumption is 0.15 lt a 100 klm. So maybe anything less is just the normal variation between engines. Mine has always sat on one litre every 10000 klm regardless of speed but up a bit with summer temps.
Gary C