2006 Kawasaki ZZR600 - Where is the Oil Cap?!?

Where do I add oil to a ZZR600? I looked everywhere! I am a newbie to
kawasaki's and I feel like a complete idiot. Please help.

 

How do you know you need oil?

If it has a dipstick then I'm guessing that it's on the right hand side of
the engine, above and behind the clutch and is a topped with a plastic plug
that has a straight-line 'handle' on it to undo so you can pour the oil in
just there....

Even if yr just going by a sight glass look above it on the engine casing
for an undo-able plug made of plastic, screwqed into the metal casings...

You may need a funnel, too.

Dave

 

I thought kawas had a glass sight thing with a plug overhead for filling

 

http://www.spete.net/motor/sickbike/images/dcp01322.jpg

Top of the white bit of the fairing, follow it, there's a black thing... et
voila....

 

And for a newby's benefit, the sight glass is normally empty when the bike
is on its side stand. You need to hold it upright while someone else looks.

 

The ZZR6 has a centre stand. Very handy for checking the oil level

 

This may not apply to all bikes, however. The apparent level of oil
in the window of Bandits 6 and 12 drops from 'max' to below 'min' when
put onto the centre stand. It makes a difference of more than a
litre.

 

But shirley the level when on the centrestand would be the 'correct'
one?

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Ace wrote

Exactly. Fill to the "empty" mark on the sightglass with the bike on
the side stand is always the way I do it, when I have a bike fitted with
one that is. A sightglass I mean. Obviously there is no point doing
that on a bike with no sidestand is there, not that I have ever had one
of those. A bike without a side stand I mean I have never had one of
those. Bikes without centre stands yes I have had those, in fact I own
one now but not a bike without a sidestand. Unless it had fallen off of
course and that has happened but not recently. Of course if the bike
had no sightglass than a whole new procedure has to be developed and we
wouldn't be having this thread anyway so that part of it is really
rather academic.

 

I'd say not - unless the owner's handbook demands it. Bike upright on
level ground is the method I've always used - not with the rear wheel
off the ground, allowing the oil to run forward and away from the
sight glass.

 

Aaah, you weren't being clear. It read like you were talking about the
'drop' between side- and centre-stands. The bandits obviously have a
very strange shaped crankcase and/or a very high stand.

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It's been a few years since I had a ZZR6, but ISTR that it had level lines
on either side of the sight window, and it did seem to be correctly levelled
when on the centre stand.

In any case, I just used to bung in the amount it said in the book whenever
I changed the oil, plus about 50ml for luck, and it always seemed to be bang
on the max lines.

 

Which is an absolute twat to do on your own with the 12R, the glass is
down the end of a narrow tunnel in the fairing.

And the top up hole isn't vertical either.

Bloody stupid place to put it/them. Very non-Honda ;-)

P.

 

Sight glass ? What bliss!
French Tart procedure:
1) Start machine
2) Ride until properly warm (VCF FAOK advises until the fan cuts in when
stationary - they run v. hot so this will not take too long if ridden at
a brisk pace for a few Kms)
3) Leave ticking over for 2 minutes
4) Whilst *absolutely upright* (i.e. not on side stand) check level on
oil tank little screw in dipstick thingy (not easy if oil is nice and
new)
5) Don't wait to long or enough oil to make a difference to a correct
reading will have departed the tank.
6) Repeat from 1 until you realise it doesn't actually seem to consume
much oil (handy really as you can see that this procedure is not very
conducive to a quick check before a run).

BTW over filling (easily accomplished as you might guess) will cause oil
to be spewed in to the front pot cam box and start dribbling out in an
almost classically SOB manner.


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Same basic idea but in this case the tank appears to be an alloy casting
which is bolted on to the tubular steel backbone. Very tall and narrow
so the temperature of the oil can make a big difference to the reading
on the dipstick.

[1] works well in this case but the cooling is poor. The oil gets hot as
shit, hence the requirement for 10W-60. Several people have fitted
adapted oil coolers and the latest sporty 'Black Magic' has one as
standard.
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Steve, can you just clarify one point from your statement above.

Did your side stand, when you had one fitted of course, not on the bike that
you have never had that didn't have a side stand, fall from the bike? Or did
the bike fall from the side stand?

 

Rogue Trader wrote

I have never had a bike fall from a sidestand. I've had more than one
fall over from a lack of me putting a perfectly good one down before
letting go though.

 

I always did mine on its wheels and held upright. What's a side stand?