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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Series C Rapide - starting after 8 year layoff
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<blockquote data-quote="stumpy lord" data-source="post: 26255" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>Hi, can you get your hands on a copy of know thy beast edition 3, for in there is an artical by Ron kemp on starting up a rebuilt engine, which gives lots of advice on priming an engine with oil.Well worth getting and reading .</p><p> How ever if you havent ,some of the things that I do is to remove the screw from the big end oil quile and pump oil into the big end. Remove the cylinder feed jet holder [op39] and introduce oil into the timing case oil gallerys. Soak the new oil filter in oil before fitting, and then with the machine leaning as far over to the left as possible remove the forward lower banjo bolt and pump as much oil as possible into the filter chamber. To ensure a good return of oil whilst waiting for the oil feed to work its way arround the system it pays to have a good supply of oil sitting in the sump for the return side of the pump to work on, so do not be shy about pouring oil down the push rod tubes.</p><p> Metal flakes in the oil filter can only get there from the oil tank and have probably been accumalating there for years, the only answer is that some time in the future to clean out the oil tank properly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stumpy lord, post: 26255, member: 207"] Hi, can you get your hands on a copy of know thy beast edition 3, for in there is an artical by Ron kemp on starting up a rebuilt engine, which gives lots of advice on priming an engine with oil.Well worth getting and reading . How ever if you havent ,some of the things that I do is to remove the screw from the big end oil quile and pump oil into the big end. Remove the cylinder feed jet holder [op39] and introduce oil into the timing case oil gallerys. Soak the new oil filter in oil before fitting, and then with the machine leaning as far over to the left as possible remove the forward lower banjo bolt and pump as much oil as possible into the filter chamber. To ensure a good return of oil whilst waiting for the oil feed to work its way arround the system it pays to have a good supply of oil sitting in the sump for the return side of the pump to work on, so do not be shy about pouring oil down the push rod tubes. Metal flakes in the oil filter can only get there from the oil tank and have probably been accumalating there for years, the only answer is that some time in the future to clean out the oil tank properly. [/QUOTE]
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