E: Engine Prep For First Start After New Crankshaft

[craig]

This early Rapide is ready for first start and is fitted with electric starter.
I have pumped oil into the crank, pumped oil into each rocker section , pumped oil into the upper feed going down to the pump.
Gearbox still needs fill.
What else should I do to oil this engine prior to start please.?

Planning on kickstarting until tune is good.

 

[timetraveller]

Did you fill the oil filter chamber yet?

 

[craig]

I installed a sloppy oil wet cotton element.
Should I lay the bike on right side, pull the the filter cap and fill with oil?
What is the method of filling filter chamber?

 

[delboy]

Perhaps read Know Thy Beast?

 

[rapide049]

To be double sure - Fill all the orifices with oil , plugs out , set up on some rollers and run it in gear until the oil returns in the tank
Refit the plugs Fuel on Ignition on , Kick until Your heart is content

 

[chankly bore]

Better to lay the trinket on the left side and fill up the filter chamber after removing the banjo bolt at the bottom right of the timing cover.

 

[timetraveller]

Not the right side. The left side. Lay it over as far as is convenient, take out the the banjo bolt A22/1 below the ATD cover. Fill till it overflows and then put the banjo bolt back in.

 

[Gene Nehring]

This early Rapide is ready for first start and is fitted with electric starter.
I have pumped oil into the crank, pumped oil into each rocker section , pumped oil into the upper feed going down to the pump.
Gearbox still needs fill.
What else should I do to oil this engine prior to start please.?

Planning on kickstarting until tune is good.

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How early is it? I see a c kick stat cover. I agree with all stated above.

 

[Russell Kemp]

As delboy said, read the back of KTB, some bloke called Ron Kemp wrote an article about what you should do.

 

[Michael Vane-Hunt]

How early is it? I see a c kick stat cover. I agree with all stated above.

Maybe he did not want to butcher the original B cover to put on the electric starter.