I think I will give it a miss !, No sence in looking for trouble !. Cheers Bill.
Changing oil with an anti-wet sump pump valve?
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I have a manual tap on my 850 with an interlock which isolates the electrics if the tap is not switched on - I fitted this 10 years ago and it works fine. The system is fail safe as, if there is an electrical fault, the ignition is immediately disabled. The valve/solenoid referred to at the beginning of this topic does not appear to work in this fashion - it would appear that if there is any type of electrical problem, the valve will close and cut off the oil supply - this would be somewhat serious!
Mark Woodward
As I said, I don't like valves so I'm not really interested and I haven't thought it through, but it would appear not to fail safe. The alternative would be to use a normally open valve, but that would involve having power to the valve when the bike is not running, and I think an optimate charger would be essential on a Vin. When I get a few minutes, I'll look at the options.
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Why not bite the bullet and just fix the oil pump???
As Martyn said or better still ride the bike more I drilled and tapped my A26 Drain Plug 1/4" BSF and used part number 188 and ET188 to plug the hole (lock wired of course) but I never needed to drain the crankcase as the Pump had been replaced and as most people know I rode the bike a lot
I drilled and tapped my A26 Drain Plug 1/4" BSF and used part number 188 and ET188 to plug the hole (lock wired of course) but I never needed to drain the crankcase as the Pump had been replaced and as most people know I rode the bike a lot 
In every day riding it is usually not a problem. If you don't ride but once a month it is usually not a big deal to check.
I have seen some mechanical interlocks that seemed fool proof. On gent had the fuel lever attached to and oil lever of the same style. Turn on one and the other turns also. But I think this is harder to do than it appears.
If you look at some of the disasters with Nortons, you will gladly drain the sump!
http://www.accessnorton.com/anti-sump-failure-t22340.html
David
I have seen some mechanical interlocks that seemed fool proof. On gent had the fuel lever attached to and oil lever of the same style. Turn on one and the other turns also. But I think this is harder to do than it appears.
If you look at some of the disasters with Nortons, you will gladly drain the sump!
http://www.accessnorton.com/anti-sump-failure-t22340.html
David