Engine oil goes black fast - really fast.

Oh, yeah, one more thing....... BOOM!:woohoo:

what about this 10$ oil gate?

needs a link

nads.com wrote:

If you plan on listening to the motor, use a piece of rubber hose, it's flexible and it doesn't carry mistleading sounds like steel or sticks do. Stick?

follow me into the mist where i and my stick and steel comrades will have our way with you!

haha.. rubber hose - check.

I did use some WD40 around the manifolds, and it did change the idle. I tightened up on the hose clamps a bit, and haven't tried it yet.. I should have repeated the test. They were fairly loose. If it still does it, I'll be replacing the rubbers.

Don't think the oil gate is in the running right now - haven't got the need for speed too often, and that's the only time the oil light has ever gone on. If it happens more often, then yeah, I might look into it - but for now, it's not necessary I don't think.

One new thing I noticed this morning is that if I hold 'er in first, with the brake on and slow the engine using the compression/braking, I can get it to idle much lower than if I just come to a stop. If I hold it around 1000 for 5-10 seconds, it'll idle around 1500 instead of 2500-3000. Not sure what the deal is there. :huh:

you said you are running castrol, that stuff turns black fast, it must be some of the additives they use, valvoline racing oil does the same thing, I used to run both of them in my race cars and after one night of racing they were always black

I guess that's good to know.. :dry: :huh: :blink: :laugh:

pretty sure schnitz has the gate. but u could make and install 1 in 25 min easy
do a search, theres lots of pics of them on here

It's idling at 2500-3000? Wow! I thought my idle on my 550 was high at 1500. That makes me think your linkage is binding somewhere, or your cable(s) are sticking.

77KZ650 wrote:

... pretty sure schnitz has the gate....

here

Well that's a simple enough mod. Thanks guys.

Scott19 wrote:

It's idling at 2500-3000? Wow! I thought my idle on my 550 was high at 1500. That makes me think your linkage is binding somewhere, or your cable(s) are sticking.

Nope..no binding - everything snaps back as it should, and there's actually visible slack in the cable. It must be a vacuum or air leak somewhere. That's why I swapping out the exhaust gaskets, and if that doesn't do it, then I'll probably change the carb manifolds.

Luckily it doesn't do anything other than make my bike run faster when I'm at a light..the actual riding (which is obviously a far majority of the time) is unaffected - as far as I know! :huh:

Post edited by: pyxen, at: 2007/05/10 14:18