burning oil?????

[wamp450r]

so some of you may know i just got my quad fixed. rebuilt head has maybe 15 hrs on it now and the bottom end was just rebuilt not to long ago i wanna say has about 50 hrs on it now. but im still burning oil. i went riding last weekend and the oil was at the H mark on the window and when i was done riding for the day (about 6 hrs later) it was a hair under the L mark on the window. i wasnt even riding it hard at all. anyone have an idea?

[Jeremy]

2 or 3 ring piston?

What was the rebuild to fix?

[wamp450r]

its still stock bottom end and the head was completely trashed. from what honda told me is that the exhaust valves were completely stretched.so it was a complete head rebuild

[Coondog #77]

Well i switch oil viscosities according to the time of year. I run 10W-40 in the winter and 20W-50 in the summer. of course this is more important on air cooled motors. I use Honda GN-4. what do you use?

[Jeremy]

its still stock bottom end and the head was completely trashed. from what honda told me is that the exhaust valves were completely stretched.so it was a complete head rebuild

Well if Honda did the work I'd take it back to them!

[wamp450r]

im running 20w50 in it right now and i had racers edge do the rebuild on the head

[Jeremy]

Then call Morgan and ask him! I'm sure he'll help you out.

So it IS the stock piston?

[wamp450r]

yea all stock bottom end. ill give him a call.

[Fishboy]

If it means anything, I have noticed with my TRX450R, that when I use the oil sight glass (window), I have had several different readings when I have turned it on, and then turned it off.

I am wondering in your situation, if maybe it had a "H" reading, but when you started it up, it may have went down to below the "L" mark.

I am not saying that you have "not" gone through that much oil, I am just thinking of some "miss" readings I have experienced.

Good luck...