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Looking at the photos it shows a bolt welded to the frame next to the side stand bracket. Has this been added as a stop for the side stand? Because it looks like the side stand itself has worn its stops away. Get rid of the valve in the oil feed pipe pronto (the thing with the brass fittings). You WILL destroy the engine if it gets stuck closed on start up, at the moment you are relying on the oil pump creating enough suction to open the valve against its spring. Service the oil pump at the first opportunity to close the clearances up to zero, that will slow down/stop the wet sumping. Try and find an experienced friendly commando owner to look the bike over, he/she could find other stuff that might need attention. The grab rail clips are incorrect at the moment they are cable clips and are not strong enough. The oil filter mounting head bolts haven't had the locking strip tabbed over. The oil feed pipe to the rockers is incorrectly routed and touching the cylinder head fins.

<blockquote data-quote="dobba99" data-source="post: 603792" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p>Looking at the photos it shows a bolt welded to the frame next to the side stand bracket. Has this been added as a stop for the side stand? Because it looks like the side stand itself has worn its stops away. Get rid of the valve in the oil feed pipe pronto (the thing with the brass fittings). You WILL destroy the engine if it gets stuck closed on start up, at the moment you are relying on the oil pump creating enough suction to open the valve against its spring. Service the oil pump at the first opportunity to close the clearances up to zero, that will slow down/stop the wet sumping. Try and find an experienced friendly commando owner to look the bike over, he/she could find other stuff that might need attention. The grab rail clips are incorrect at the moment they are cable clips and are not strong enough. The oil filter mounting head bolts haven&#039;t had the locking strip tabbed over. The oil feed pipe to the rockers is incorrectly routed and touching the cylinder head fins.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="dobba99, post: 603792, member: 5834"] Looking at the photos it shows a bolt welded to the frame next to the side stand bracket. Has this been added as a stop for the side stand? Because it looks like the side stand itself has worn its stops away. Get rid of the valve in the oil feed pipe pronto (the thing with the brass fittings). You WILL destroy the engine if it gets stuck closed on start up, at the moment you are relying on the oil pump creating enough suction to open the valve against its spring. Service the oil pump at the first opportunity to close the clearances up to zero, that will slow down/stop the wet sumping. Try and find an experienced friendly commando owner to look the bike over, he/she could find other stuff that might need attention. The grab rail clips are incorrect at the moment they are cable clips and are not strong enough. The oil filter mounting head bolts haven't had the locking strip tabbed over. The oil feed pipe to the rockers is incorrectly routed and touching the cylinder head fins. [/QUOTE]