Any Vintage Suzuki experts out there?

I have a Suzuki engine in a non OEM frame with this serial number
DR400-1016XX. How do I find out what year it is so I can order an oil
filter? I can't find a web site that helps. Thanks.

 

You don't need to find the year - all DR400s use the same oil filter.

I think a very, very few really early DRs used a replaceable canister
type (BICBW), but it's unlikely to be a problem.

 

What Mr. Murray said...also be glad it isn't something like the DR370
motor. That is an internal 2 stage fine mesh metal permanent filter
that will tear if the resident mice in your garage look at it funny
(the filter).

 

Ah. That's what I was thinking of, so thanks for confirming it. I had a
vague memory that the early DR/SP370 (which evolved into the DR400) used
that system. Like the old Yamaha XS650.

 

Didn't that get sorted when the XS2 got transformed into the XS650?

If not, they certainly missed a trick.

 

Nope. They always had washable gauze oil filters - a small one behind a
circular plate on the clutch cover, and a bigger one in the sump. Thje
sump one *always* develops tears and holes.

Yup

 

You forget...I've a stock DR370 in the garage. IF I'd spring for all
new control cables and the clutch plates it would be ridable as long
as you like straight exhaust (which I do not) That part is going to be
a chore.

 

BENEDICK
Gallants, I am not as I have been.
LEONATO
So say I methinks you are sadder.
CLAUDIO
I would hope he be in love with other than himself...
DON PEDRO
Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in
him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,
he wants money.
BENEDICK
I have the toothache.
DON PEDRO
Draw it.
BENEDICK
Hang it!
CLAUDIO
You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.
DON PEDRO
What! sigh for the toothache?
LEONATO
Where is but a humour or a worm.
BENEDICK
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has
it.
CLAUDIO
Yet say I, he is in love.
DON PEDRO
There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be
a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be
a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the
shape of two countries at once, as, a German from
the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from
the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy
to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no
fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.
CLAUDIO
If he be not in love with some woman, there is no
believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'
mornings; what should that bode?
DON PEDRO
Hath any man seen him at the barber's?
CLAUDIO
No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,
and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
stuffed tennis-balls.
LEONATO
Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.
DON PEDRO
Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him
out by that?
CLAUDIO
That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love.
DON PEDRO
The greatest note of it is his melancholy.
CLAUDIO
And when was he wont to wash his face?
DON PEDRO
Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear
what they say of him.
CLAUDIO
Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into
a lute-string and now governed by stops.
DON PEDRO
Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,
conclude he is in love.
CLAUDIO
Nay, but I know who loves him.
DON PEDRO
That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.
CLAUDIO
Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of
all, dies for him.
DON PEDRO
She shall be buried with her face upwards.
BENEDICK
Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old
signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight
or nine wise words to speak to you, which these
hobby-horses must not hear.
Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO

 

Yep using a non sequiter to PROVE you know nothing except your own
perversion. How original, how childish...much what we've come to
expect from the Chickenhawk know as Krusty/gael etc etc. the man with
1,000,000 fathers all of them nameless.

 

My allusion totally whooshed over your head, didn't it?

Why can't you and Neil Murray just flush down the toilet, like normal
turds?

 

What? You think I'm as poorly read as you that I'd have to look
something that trite up? ROTFLMAO unlike you chickenhawk...I are smart
and educated.

 

Then at least *try* acting like an educated person instead of
constantly smashing beer cans on your forehead.

 

heh this coming from an idiot that only knows what he googles or finds
on wiki (usually the FIRST link when you google your info)

 

Posting a Wikipedia or Google link is a time saver when somebody asks
for information.

Other users tell me to google for info instead of taking time to type
the simplest answer.

So why should I be treated any differently when I post a link instead
of wasting
half an hour of my time to type a reply to somebody who isn't going to
appreciate the effort?

90% of the time nobody is going to read a reply anyway, they want to
get down to the real nitty gritty of posting schoolyard taunts, just
like you do.

I thought you might be an intelligent person at first, but your
content has really degenerated over that last few years.

It must be your psychiatric meds at work, you're too young for a
second childhood.

 

sometimes, but in you inept AND incompetant case it's the ONLY info
you have other than your perversions.

That's because everybody KNOWS you aren't smart enough to dig it up on
your own without adult help.

Because you putz it's the only attention you ever get...

Really You assume much another proof of how mentally challenged you
are...I'd put your pathetic iq at around MAYBE 82.

Not really you just have improved your comprehesion skills above that
of a insane squirell.

There you go again thinking you know what you are talking about when
you patently don't. Not surprising coming from a military reject that
got fired from grumman because he could run a vacume cleaner.

 

Because (a) you frequently present it as your own experience and/or
knowledge (or you don't acknowledge the source, which amounts to the
same thing) and (b) you frequently post something that is completely
*wrong*.

Simples.

Let's look at this thread, by the way. OP asks a basic tech question. I
give a basic reply, with a very small proviso, based on something I
remembered from years ago when I used to own a very similar bike to the
OP's (a GN400, as it happens).

S'mee pops up and confirms the little proviso (I'm sometimes worried
about the quantity of useless info rattling around in my skull). I'm
pleased, because it means I've remembered something correctly over a
timespan of about 20 years. And the OP has the answer to his problem.
Perfect.

Dave Emerson (whose knowledge is encyclopaedic) asks a curious related
technical question, and gets a correct reply.

And then you barge in with a load of shit.

Why?

 

OK, the OP's *consumer question* was answered and there was *no
reason* for you (or anybody else) to go off on a tangent, discussing
*other* motorcycles, or the varied construction of oil filters, or how
many motorcycles you've owned.

S'mee desperately needs a friend. He would bake a cake and buy two
silver rings to celebrate this new "friendship", should you ever ring
him up on the phone and announce your arrival in Cut Bank, MT, the
colder-than-a-witch's-teat anus of North America.

This may be one of the most important Open Public Secrets anybody will
ever tell you:

Your teacup is overflowing, Bertie.

Although a tea cup has a limited capacity, the mind does not have
similar limits.

This poses a barrier for Truth seekers with overflowing tea cup minds.
They cannot pass the barrier of obscurations attached to worn-out
memories and do not understand who they really are.

Such persons do not become enlightened.

But the ungrateful OP did NOT respond to your answer at all. He has
probably solved his problem and he has *passed* this particular knot
of the web he's living in.

However, you haven't gotten past the OP's knot, you're stuck on
somebody else's knot and you're working on making the knot even
tighter.

Clue: Before his enlightenment, Siddhartha was a Nigantha, knowing
that knots were obstacles to penetrate and pass beyond...

And then the information thread continued to bifurcate and trifurcate,
uselessly.

Don't make all information-seeking threads into an inescapable net.

Nobody is going to come *here* looking for technical information
anymore.

YOU have almost single-handedly turned this group into a quarrelsome
debate, just like you and a very few others are doing in reeky.

Other than the timeless wisdom that I freely give out, there's NO
trustworthy information here, just Much Ado About Nothing.

 

Why not? Threads don't remain on topic for long. Somebody asked another
technical question. I answered it. And I can't see *any* reference to
numbers of motorcycles anywhere in the thread either. hat are you
babbling on about?

You're just bitter because you keep getting exposed for the fraud you
are.

 

Whining and pissing and moaning about getting your ass handed to you
repeatedly snipped.

Fixed that for you asshat.

There fixed that also you ignorant piece of trash.

 

After reading all the replies, I'm kinda sorry I asked.

The bike has a re-useable (washable) filter located at the bottom of
the c'case. Nothing from the side. K&N, HiFlo, and other's filters do
not fit. The O.D. of the filter they say will fit is larger then the
hole in the c'case. I prefer a disposable filter. Anyone help?