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25 Sep 2015 17:52 - 25 Sep 2015 18:14 #691944 by missionkz
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Had a weird one today when hole shoting away from my buddy's 103 cu in Harley.
Really jumped his s**t and even he was stunned.
Anyhow my damn oil light came on for about 10-15 seconds after hitting 2nd gear and blasting up to about 7500 rpm
Everything totally normal and I just coasted down with the clutch in and about 1100-1200 rpm idle.
Bikes runs fine and I've only seen this once before when it was much newer and I was at a drag strip.
Bruce
1977 KZ1000A1
2016 Triumph T120 Bonneville
Far North East Metro Denver Colorado
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25 Sep 2015 18:19 #691950 by 650ed
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Is the bike's oil level near the top mark? If not, I wonder if the oil was pushed to the rear of the engine due to the acceleration and momentarily starved the oil pump. I believe they put little "gates" on oil pans of at least some drag KZ bikes to prevent that from happening. Ed
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25 Sep 2015 18:28 #691952 by missionkz
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Yes, I think so too... but I thought they fixed that in 1977.
I always ride with the oil level right in between the two hash marks in the clutch cover.... that would be on level ground and the bike straight up and down, not on the side stand.
I'm wondering if I should pull the pan and check something out...?
Bruce
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25 Sep 2015 19:09 #691963 by jackleberry
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missionkz wrote: Yes, I think so too... but I thought they fixed that in 1977.
I always ride with the oil level right in between the two hash marks in the clutch cover.... that would be on level ground and the bike straight up and down, not on the side stand.
I'm wondering if I should pull the pan and check something out...?


Oil should fill the window when bike is upright. It's on the center stand that it should be in the middle. Sounds like you're running it low.
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25 Sep 2015 19:16 #691968 by SWest
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It used to happen all the time when I had my oil cooler. What did they do in 77 to fix it?
Steve
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25 Sep 2015 19:46 #691971 by missionkz
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swest wrote: It used to happen all the time when I had my oil cooler. What did they do in 77 to fix it?
Steve

i thought they cast a maze gate in the pan to slow oil from slamming to the rear???
Bruce
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26 Sep 2015 02:37 #691973 by SWest
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My Z1 has that. You might want to rework your oil pump like I did mine. Old Kaw Man has lots of them, at least he did.
Steve
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26 Sep 2015 03:26 #691978 by jertho
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I bought a 76 kz 900 ltd new in 1976 that I did a lot of drag racing with. It would do that until I installed a gate in the oil pan. I bought the gate from MTC engineering.
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26 Sep 2015 06:08 #691991 by Street Fighter LTD
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Do The Gate, Bullet proof Mod.
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26 Sep 2015 06:26 #691993 by SWest
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I've always wanted to do that. Not too hard or expensive.
Steve
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26 Sep 2015 07:14 #691996 by zed1015
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Fit a gate.
They all starve the pump on hard acceleration no matter what year the sump pan is .
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26 Sep 2015 07:17 #691997 by missionkz
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Is that the little spring loaded flapper gate thing?
Net lnks anywhere?
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