Deeper Oil Pan Dipstick Question

[AntonLargiader]

When putting the 1981-on larger oil pan on an earlier engine, an extension of the oil pump pickup is required. (It's a spacer block)

Actually the '81 deep pan takes a whole different pickup head without a spacer. The spacer is used on the 'semi-deep' /6 /7 pan. Maybe that's what you put on your G/S? It's deeper than what probably came on it.

[kantuckid]

I wouldn't say it is a "major problem" for riders who are aware of the limitations but it will certainly bite those who aren't. Generically, Airheads are purely air cooled, and depend on air flow past the heads and cylinders to cool them. Thus fans are used if a motor is stationary, running, during a tune-up for example. If not they get hot very quickly. Nobody ever told me I needed to blow a fan on my lawn mower if it was stationary.** But they do for Airheads, with good reason.

Oil is heated differently at different parts of the engines too. Oil passing the vicinity of the exhaust valves gets very hot. Idling at stop lights usually isn't a problem, but a long cycle time light with a 4 minute wait can overheat the engine where you live. Traffic jams, highway accident traffic snarls, long suburban stop-n-go, all can easily raise the oil temperature in an Airhead to over 300 degrees.

Thus the oil gets cooked. Ash deposits form. Components get gummy. Viscosity can plummet, etc.

** - back when I had a lawn with green stuff that needed mowing, that is.

Now we may really be onto something!Never know what your going to learn. I always wondered where the saying "don't let any grass grow under your feet" came from? Now we know it was based on Paul standing there with his mower running(and overheating,wasting gas,etc.), You lazy boy!

[PGlaves]

Now we may really be onto something!Never know what your going to learn. I always wondered where the saying "don't let any grass grow under your feet" came from? Now we know it was based on Paul standing there with his mower running(and overheating,wasting gas,etc.), You lazy boy!

I'm so disinterested in mowing grass that I moved to a location where there is no grass. Rocks? Yes. Cactus? Yes Caliche? Yes Mesquite? Yes Sage? Yes Grass? No!! A lawn mower? No!!

[toooldtocare]

Paul, that is funny. When we lived in Lubbock we used to ride for hours on our "green fix" trips to New Mexico so we could see green grass and trees. Then moved to Saint Louis and now I cut the stuff 2 times a week, bag it now and then, spread seed so more will grow, kill what I don't want to grow, water the rest. I am beginning to think that I need a proper "brown fix" and another trip to Lubbock. But that will have to wait until Sipapu.

[ISAMEMON]

for me, if its oil and air cooled, I want more oil and more air

[kantuckid]

That's my motive I actually was thinking of doing the "popsicle" dipstick notion as a way to "learn the level" of the new swimming pool via my old dipstick.
Grass sidenote: living back in the woods, much of what used to pass for our lawn now is in moss, having removed it in the past & reseeded we have long decided it is green, it doesn't need mowing(except in the spring when the wildflowers shoot through then die back) & is here to stay. When I used to work I was always amused by the guys that could entertain themselves with "lawnmower discussions" as a lawnmower is incapable of conjuring any excitement in me AT ALL! I mowed a golf course some when younger & have a lifetime quota long filled. Much of the grass in the USA is a complete waste of time & $-except one thing-it creates more jobs than I can imagine! As for a green fix-if you haven't experienced the ABSOLUTE EXPLOSION OF GREEN! that happens in our appalachian spring, replete with gillions of flowering trees & plants you need some green. It is amazing. I get my Audubon wildflower book out every spring to identify something out there. Yesterday it was a 5 pointed red flower in a shady cove in Johnson county , KY that needs looking up-is it a cardinal flower?
P.S. Anybody got a hybrid lawnmower yet?

[barryg]

Pushing a lawn mower once a week is my cardio workout.

[osbornk]

That's my motive I actually was thinking of doing the "popsicle" dipstick notion as a way to "learn the level" of the new swimming pool via my old dipstick.
Grass sidenote: living back in the woods, much of what used to pass for our lawn now is in moss, having removed it in the past & reseeded we have long decided it is green, it doesn't need mowing(except in the spring when the wildflowers shoot through then die back) & is here to stay. When I used to work I was always amused by the guys that could entertain themselves with "lawnmower discussions" as a lawnmower is incapable of conjuring any excitement in me AT ALL! I mowed a golf course some when younger & have a lifetime quota long filled. Much of the grass in the USA is a complete waste of time & $-except one thing-it creates more jobs than I can imagine! As for a green fix-if you haven't experienced the ABSOLUTE EXPLOSION OF GREEN! that happens in our appalachian spring, replete with gillions of flowering trees & plants you need some green. It is amazing. I get my Audubon wildflower book out every spring to identify something out there. Yesterday it was a 5 pointed red flower in a shady cove in Johnson county , KY that needs looking up-is it a cardinal flower?
P.S. Anybody got a hybrid lawnmower yet?

Regarding the dipstick/oilpan question, I am a KISS kind of person (Keep it Stock Stupid).

Regarding grass, like Kentuckid, I'm in the Appalachian mountains and green is taking over this spring with it being warm early and raining every day. My John Deeres are only a 48" and a 50" cut so I can mow my yard in about two and a half hours if I don't stop. Trimming is extra. The other half of my property is Billy Goat steep and my 4 goats and donkey takes care of that. I've always enjoyed mowing because, like riding my motorcycle, it is my thinking time. You know you live in the mountains when you need a 4X4 lawnmower to mow your yard. I manage with heavy two wheel drives but my neighbors have gone to the $12,000-$15,000 4X4 models.