Home-made Scottoiler touring kit

I'd been meaning to fit a Scottoiler to my CB250RS for about a year
because the thing eats chains, especially when I can't be arsed to lube
it. On the ZZR I have the proper touring kit which holds enough oil for
about 3500 miles, but I didn't want to spend 30 quid on one for the CB
cos the bike only cost me 20 quid to start with. The CB is a highly
abused and neglected bike, and I really can't be that arsed to perform
basic maintenence on it, so a Scottoiler is almost essential. Having a
half litre cacapcity in the resevoir is an added bonus, cos it will
probably last about 5000 miles between top ups.

I already had a couple of spare metering units kicking about so I used
the better of those and a mounting kit left over when I fitted one to my
first ZZR1100. all I needed was something to use as the additional
resevoir. What I thought was, I could use an old Scottoil bottle in the
top-box and plumb it in as per the touring kit that Scottoil sell. The
proper Scottoil bottle is handy because it has a clear run up the height
so you can see what the oil level is at any time, and it's not too tall
to restrict the top-box lid when it has a pipe sticking out of the top.

So I drilled a hole in the bottle's lid and put a syphon pipe in with a
grommet. I also had to drill a hole in the inlet manifold to fit a take
off for the vacuum pipe, Scottoil sell a universal fitting to do this.
Pipework was run in under the tank/seat and along the frame rails and
exits the bodywork at the back just where the rack support brackets are.
From there they are cable tied to the rack and enter the top-box
underneath, out of sight and harm, directly under the metering unit.
Where the delivery tube goes I had to make a small bracket out of a
ZZR1100 number plate bracket[1] to put the pipe in the right place, but
it went in OK and the tube is in just the right place. Honda rivet a
weird metal ring to the outside of some sprockets, which makes it
impossible to get the delivery tube onto the chain run, so I angle-
ground the heads of the rivets off and snipped it in two to remove it.

Once everything was fitted and the lines and metering unit were primed
with Husqvarna chainsaw oil[2], it was a simple matter of setting the
flow rate which took about 5 minutes. The extra resevoir fits neatly
into a corner of the box and is held in with 2 strips of universal
jubilee clip type stuff[3] and the metering unit fits nicely alongside
it, so all the pipework is neat and tidy.

Total cost : 3 quid for the adaptor and some new vacuum and delivery
pipe. Everything else I'd got for free or made myself.

[1] I had 2 left over from fitting touring kits to my last 2 ZZR1100s
[2] 10 quid for 5 litres from the local tree surgeon's shop. That beats
Scottoils price of 5-99 for 500ml. It's a bit thicker than Scottoil, so
hopefully won't fling off all over the back wheel.
[3] I got this from Hein Gericke, it's bloody useful to have kicking
about. What you get is a long roll of the strapping, and a handful of
fittings, so you can make jubilee clips as long as you want.