Have you started the bike yet? This will fill the oilfilter and lower the oil level

 

Did you remove both sump bolts??

 

I changed the oil in my 1100 yesterday and got pretty much the full 4lts out of it save for a bit in the oil filter element.

 

Oh and my 1100 is manual as well.

 

There are two oil drain holes did you do both of them if the bike was running low on oil the bike wouldn't start as it detects when oil is low to protect the engine.

 

2 drain holes?

No only 1

 

I just looked up the manual again and see it now...

This is the one I opened...

Do'h!!

Do you think that 1.5 litres is trapped behind that other bolt?

If so I wonder if I could open it and try to drain off that amount assuming/hoping that the new oil has not overly mixed with the old. (engine has not been started and its kind of cold in my workshop)

 

You must have had a brain fart, but yeah, remove the plug and let out some oil.

 

You can drain it. I had a crush washer missed during a previous oil change. Caught it during cleanup but after oil was added. I loosened the bolt. Kept pressure on it after the threads were clear and rapidly removed the bolt while moving my thumb to plug the hole. Added the washer to the bolt and reversed the process with almost no oil loss. You should be able to meter out a controlled flow using that technique.

Another option would be to suck it out with a syringe through the fill hole. Cleaner and more accurate if you can snake a tube past the stator.

 

I opened the other drain hole and black oil came gushing out!

I let it go till I guessed about 1.5 litres were out,
Emptied it into the plastic container and it came to just on the 4L

Then I checked the dip stick and its showing well now.

Thanks guys for shaking the cobwebs out of my old noggin!
**** should read the ****ing manual closer.
Was sure I had it all in hand.

No **** @rider_marc ! fullon brainfart!

 

I opened the other drain hole and black oil came gushing out!

I let it go till I guessed about 1.5 litres were out,
Emptied it into the plastic container and it came to just on the 4L

Then I checked the dip stick and its showing well now.

Thanks guys for shaking the cobwebs out of my old noggin!
**** should read the ****ing manual closer.
Was sure I had it all in hand.

No **** @rider_marc ! fullon brainfart!

Haha happy to hear you figured it out! Happens to the best of us. RTFM is a phrase for a reason!

 

Make up a sticker that says.......remove both sump bolts and stick it to the inside of the sump plate that has to be dropped to get at the bolts. No one but you will ever see it!

 

You think he will forget this? I guess its traumatic enough to be remembered!

 

Well if you ever do the spark plugs there is two on each cylinder just so you know before changing them.

 

I did the big service so it was the sparkplugs too.

Holy ****!

Those top plugs are hard to get at.
More acurately, its pulling the plug caps! there is almost not enough space to get them all the way out. They are stupidly long and the rubber sleeve is a tight fit in the hole.
The whole thing was a miserable rigmarole that took far more time than I had hopped.

The shop manual says to loosen the radiators to get to the plugs, but you also have to remove the fans and shrouds from behind the radiators. Beware of those. Its not a simple removal and I snapped a lug getting it back on again! aaagggrrrrrr. **** those tiny Japanese hands!

I don't know if its my cave man proportions that prevented this from being a smoother job or is it just bad design and workshop manual misinformation!
Now I am scrambling around to find that soddin bolt for the horn as I reassemble the mess of....

 

Drain it all and start again!

 

Hope you checked the valves while you were in there would have been a shame to dig that deep and not!.