2003 VTR1000F (oil consumption ?)

If the oil viscosity changes when it is warm/hot to allow it to better move
around inside the engine than when it is cold, it'll probably be more inclined
to fall out of the drain hole when it is warm/hot also.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

I changed the clutch fluid on my ZZR250 after 3000Km, and
it was as black as a black man's black ass on a dark night,
but when I finished that, and went around the other side
and drained the oil out of the sump, that was spotlessly
clean - like it had never been used.

G

 

Oh well, there's your problem right there: It's a Jap bike with
4500km, so it's barely a week away from the scrapyard now!

Tsk!. It's buggered all right. Tell you what, I'll take it off your
hands for $500 - and I'm only going to the trouble because you seem to
be a likeable chap. I might get some of my money back by stripping it
and selling it for spares...


BTH

 

So far as I knew oil goes black because it's a detergent. The black
is caused by all of the microscopic bits of metal swarf from the
bearings and soot and other assorted gunk that's being held in
suspension by the oil. Presumably if it *didn't* get held in
suspension then you'd have to unbolt the sump and scrape the gunk off
it every couple of oil changes.


BTH

 

I have this feeling we've all been trolled, IK. So it goes.

-----sharks

 

Conehead said....

Maybe they should use that oil that Peter Brock uses. He reckons that
other oils are made of dirt and his isn't....

 

Yes
tony morris
aka dibblego
a semi regular in ausmoto the irc channel

 

~
And the winner of the "Most Enthusiastic Newbie" award goes to......

 

What is this, literal week? I'm talkin' 'bout the fluid
the clutch is bathed in, not the, er, cable that operates
the... oh, forget it.


Actually, I did the oil change this afternoon when I got
home from work. The bike has 4200Km on it, and that set of
oil had only 3000Km on it. The oil was as black as shit.

"My mate has the same bike, and he changed the oil too,
and his was black too"

Have Kawasaki sold us dud bikes, or should me and my mate
just get a room? (booth?). Or is this black oil thing a
big Honda/Kawasaki conspiracy?

G

<Linus_Torvalds>Changed oil today at 4094Km</Linus_Torvalds>

 

X-No-archive: yes

Mate; you'd better see a doctor ASAP if you doing blackies!
Clem
(Wondering if literal-week will have the staying power of harsh-week)

 

Nah, I get that when I drink too much red wine, I don't think its
particularly serious...

I doubt it...

 

Easy to see why you're a teacher Smee.. You'd win the aus.moto dobber award
every time.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Warning - excessive consumption of Bundy and coke can lead you to
believe that you are hemorrhaging internally.

---
Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
'81 Suzuki GS450-s
'87 BMW K100RT

www.dmcsc.org.au

 

One of those kilo bags of licorice from Darrel Lea will
do it!

I reckon it will last, literally, a week.

G

 

I always thought that was a dark green..........

i'm not gonna say how i found this out.

What, no ridicule about having a black arse?

Mike.S

 

New here?

Nice troll.

Hammo

In case you didn't know, engines do use oil.

 

Does it actually go?

I've never seen it.....

Hammo

 

So, you don¹t know, or haven't measured it? Or both?

What? The friction is going to stop being a factor if you ride less than
moderately?

Why do you need to dump it earlier? Why is using a semi synth important?

Hammo

 

You been talking to the bikes now, eh?

Hammo

Fuggin' students.....

 

Of course it doesn't. It's still in bits!!

Hammo