Oil pan

undefined So I'll admit my stupidity, what year did Kawasaki move to the larger capacity oil pan.

They began to show up on some models by 1980. But not all , and as it is a very "in demand " part and hard to come by, if you are looking to buy, don't relay on the date/ year of the bike , but the photo's the seller provides. Search this site to see photo's that show the difference.

Some time back, I had suggested that the Deep Pan may not fit with some headers (D.G. in my case) . NO ONE responded !
Seems this is not the case having seen some pictures (from stan?) showing the physical differences. The pans mounting flange depth (which was my concern until I learned otherwise) is the same for both. The Deep Pan's difference is in the actual sump depth which also requires a longer sump pick up/screen.

www.kz1300.com/index.php/forum/engines/338-engine-sumps?start=0

www.kz1300.com/index.php/forum/engines/5...-differences?start=6

Just a comment on how easy it is to miss a post. It has been my experience from time to time, that I have been on the forum, only to come back to the same forum that I was on a few hours earlier to find there are no posts listed about anything . The point being, some new posts or threads have a very short time of exposure. Maybe it's just my laptop, maybe not.

tackelhappy wrote: www.kz1300.com/index.php/forum/engines/338-engine-sumps?start=0

www.kz1300.com/index.php/forum/engines/5...-differences?start=6

Just a comment on how easy it is to miss a post. It has been my experience from time to time, that I have been on the forum, only to come back to the same forum that I was on a few hours earlier to find there are no posts listed about anything . The point being, some new posts or threads have a very short time of exposure. Maybe it's just my laptop, maybe not.

Just a quick comment- when you first login, the default search in new topics is "since last visit" . you need to adjust that to a different search like last 4 hours or last 8 hours or last 2 days etc. It's a selectable box just above the topics box