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[Gwilly]

I think JS has a good idea here, just think for a moment, the first time you find you have white metal in the rockers is when something goes wrong.

Example the pump worm strips due to blockage… Would you perhaps see those telltale shiny bits in the glass filter if you left it in…?

Might just give you a heads up to impending bearing failure before the big knock tells everybody…

Filter could be cleaned on a service/oil change..

[Norm]

Hi Dennis,
I haven't heard from Danial for a couple of years, last I heard he was unwell and in NZ from memory

[Dennis C]

Hi Norm, yes he has had problems but I have seen posts from him under another alias. Filter or no filter?, has to be a personal choice of course but remember the filter is designed for cold fuel and not hot oil it will block very easily and load your pump.

[JOHNNY SINGLES]

Hi Dennis, I have had the filter for over 2500 miles and it is as good now as it was when i put it in.

[Norm]

There is a possible good side to this filter, if the big end begins to fail, the filter will catch the white metal and block it solid causing pump pressure to blow the connecting hose off the filter and therefore oil would be sprayed onto your leg causing you to realize there was pending doom LOL Might not notice it if it is dark and raining but at least you would know the pump was still working which is what I have argued about for a long time that it is not pump spindle failure that causes the big end to fail, but white metal blocking the rocker blocks causing the spindle to stall

[Norm]

And if you are very lucky and the weakest point is the scavenge pump gasket and it lets go before the spindle ( I have seen a couple of cases like this) you might just save the spindle but the motor is going to need rebuilding so the cost of a new spindle is not big in the overall costs of a rebuild

[Gerd M.]

Hi
I inserted another variant for oil control with my Royal Enfield.
I published in the German Royal Enfield Owners Club. (R.E.O.C.)
The description is on German, but a specialist can recognize also without translation all this.
I have the glass now for 5 years at the cylinder and it functioned well.

Here the link:
http://www.reoc.de/tips/schraube.html

Gerd from Germany

[another Allan]

A very tidy installation, Gerd. There are other interesting items on the German website. I opened the link on Google Chrome and it automatically translates into English.

[Gerd M.]

Hi Allan,
I use also so a translator and hope you can also understand, what I write.
English I can speak and only what collected in such a way in 50 years. (Slang)

[Midge]

I can see a certain company making and selling those here soon!