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[Barry N]

Thanks for your suggestion Ginetta Lad, but I was only questioning the wisdom of recycling the oil. Scavenging is good, judging by the healthy spurt from the rocker feeds (the worm, the spindle and the high-capacity pumps have only done 4000 miles). Cheers!

[PeteF]

You should have an interrupted flow to the rockers, this means the return pump is clearing the sump. If the flow is steady then the return pump is trying to clear the pump but not succeeding. I have a piece of clear tube in the rocker feed so I can check now and again.

[jefrs]

Going out of the box - if I over-fill the EFI it blows oil out of the breather, if I manage to fill it between the high and low marks (easier said than done), if does not eject oil. The high mark is an absolute limit to fill to, it is not the fill level, that is supposed to be mid-way between high and low, and it is better to be nearer the low mark. Is your motor over-filled?



I only recently discovered my car's oil is supposed to be checked whilst hot, switch off and wait 3 minutes then check level, apparently some new cars are supposed to be checked whilst running, weird - they all used to be checked stone cold. The EFI's instructions do say switch off and wait 3 minutes, i.e. not whilst cold. All of these Bullet engines do hold a fair amount of oil and I have noticed the EFI for sure starts to circulate oil properly at just over half-filled. It is far better for oil to be under-filled than over-filled.

[jefrs]

Oil is relatively cheap. Never put used oil back into an engine.

[Colin F]

Hi Barry,actually speedo shows 85k but truthfully original floating bush went out at 14k
before i upgraded to 612.Bike is a standard 2005 Deluxe and has traveled all states in Oz,
21 tooth countershaft sprocket `R/H Shifter,mostly all done before 2009,current transport
'51 Twin 500 and '67 Mk1a,cheers