Hey all
I am curious if anyone else with a sportsman find they burn oil, i have a 03 700 twin and find i am burning oil, should i be concerned or just part of owning a decade old bike?
Any info would be great.
Tom

 

how many miles, how was it taken care off, did it ever go swimming and water in the engine? is it smoking, is that how you know it's burning oil?

 

Does it have white smoke coming out the exhaust?

 

it has 2,800 miles, was owned by a older guy who used it mostly for plowing, so i dont think it has been swimming or ran hard, it doesn't appear to smoke at all nor do i smell anything, i did an oil change about sept, used the proper synthetic oil, was were it should be there is 200 miles on since then and noticed its down below the add mark.
thanks for the responses
Tom
Ohh and i did take it in to get the valves adjusted by the dealer.

 

it happinns after a wile put more oil in it and you shuld be fine i think your just being paranoid.

 

The 700 has no valve adjustment.

 

i was trying to find the recipt for what they did, said they adjusted something in the topend .
after all the problems i have had with this pos im trying to work the bugs out, and im loaning it to my father in law while im in Afghanistan so i would like to have it working well for him.

 

Maybe the guy you bought it from did not use synthic oil just reguliar oil. I have seen some motors do this use oil with synthic but not standard oil like 10w40

 

Thats why i had to do a quickie oil change in the bush, noticed it was low and i know not to mix reg with synthetic so i changed the oil in the bush.
Im not too familiar with 4 stroke operation(used to my sleds) when they get up there in age is it normal for them to burn some oil?

 

Sounds to me like the rings are a little worn. You can just keep adding oil and keep an eye on the level.

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