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oil change information
I REALLY need to change my oil ( i have gon about 2000mi atleast).

All i would like to know is what type of oil you guys might recomend and also what viscosity? I live in a hot ass weather too. ( south florida )

Also i dont know how many quarts these baby's take...

thank you in advance everybody.

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I use just shy of 3 quarts of 20/50 Castrol with a K&N oil filter....
Holds up to the heat really well.
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Which bike?

2000miles is nothing on any kind of yamaha xt.

Serviceintervals are usualle 4-6.000 miles.

I use 10w40 fullsynth. and sometimes 10w50/ in the summer.

I shop at www.louis.de - Motorrad & Freizeit (germany)

Link for the oil (open it twice) http://www.louis.de/_10a4c20ebc79dc4...nr_gr=10038543
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thanks alot guys! im not sure if i want to go synthetic though. i have to see weather i have fuel leaking down or oil. but then again i only have 5300mi on her.
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My 2003 xt600 has 68.000km on her and still going strong. No enginework whatsoever.
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My 2003 xt600 has 68.000km on her and still going strong. No enginework whatsoever.
holy crap thats alot of miles lol!!
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Well, I take good care of her:

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Jens, do you have some more pictures of your bike, preferably with the bike not under water?

I like the looks of the dual-exhaust headers. Are they custom made or can they be bought somewhere?
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Sorry for the hijack :/

Its stainless steel, oversize.

They're from KEDO - Performance Products (they have english site to) around 139euro or soomething.

What do you wanna see? Just the downpipe?


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That's a great looking bike. And thiose headers are on my wishlist.
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Jens, thanks for the pics. The headers look really good. Pretty similar to the headers on the older KTM RFS’s.

Did you notice some performance gain when you swapped out the stock exhaust system?
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x2 that is a really great looking bike!!

anyways, i just got done with the oil change...and it only took 1 and 3/4th quarts.. that enough?
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Sounds too little. How much oil did you get out of the bike? What model do you have? Maybe someone with the exact same model can comment?

Please note that it can be a little tricky to check correctly the engine oil level in these bikes. The same goes for most dry-sump bikes, at least in my experience. I personally ride the bike for a while before I check the oil level (being sure that the engine has at least enough oil to keep up the oil pressure, of course).

I have a ’05 TT600, it has the same engine as the 1990-1995 XT600, but a different oil reservoir. It takes about 3 liters of engine oil.
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G500:

No powergain from the headers alone. It the stock ones wa very restrictive, it could have happened tho.

I'ved added the alser produro exhaust, opened the airbox, and bought a foamfilter. I'm fooling around with the final adjutements on the jets, and I've changed the gearing from 15-45 to 15-47. Its a complete new bike, but it not like I've instant gained 10 horses or something, but perhaps a handfull.
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