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Wet sumping
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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Holmes" data-source="post: 148446" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>Tony Maughan rebuilt my engine many years ago, and he did a fine job, but it did not eradicate the wet sumping problem, close engineering tolerances will slow it down a bit, certainly to an acceptable level, for me anyway, but does Vic have an engineering solution whereby the oil stays in the oil tank when the bike is not in use, as a previous post stated, the real problem here is gravity.</p><p></p><p>As someone else previously mentioned, I also have anti sumping device, brand new, never fitted, I just cannot bring myself to install it, what does it do, suck or push a spring loaded ball off a seat to allow the main pump oil feed to pass, fully bled with no air locks, no thanks, it would terrify me.</p><p></p><p>Good oil is relatively cheap (when compared to a tank of premium fuel) easier and safer to just unscrew your magnetic drain plug, check for contamination, refit and fill up, use your bike regularly, aim for 8 months of the year, happy days!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Holmes, post: 148446, member: 302"] Tony Maughan rebuilt my engine many years ago, and he did a fine job, but it did not eradicate the wet sumping problem, close engineering tolerances will slow it down a bit, certainly to an acceptable level, for me anyway, but does Vic have an engineering solution whereby the oil stays in the oil tank when the bike is not in use, as a previous post stated, the real problem here is gravity. As someone else previously mentioned, I also have anti sumping device, brand new, never fitted, I just cannot bring myself to install it, what does it do, suck or push a spring loaded ball off a seat to allow the main pump oil feed to pass, fully bled with no air locks, no thanks, it would terrify me. Good oil is relatively cheap (when compared to a tank of premium fuel) easier and safer to just unscrew your magnetic drain plug, check for contamination, refit and fill up, use your bike regularly, aim for 8 months of the year, happy days! [/QUOTE]
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