Homemade Scottoiler touring kit on my SPB

Discussion in 'Classic Motorbikes' started by Lozzo, Jan 12, 2004.

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    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 from 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.
     
    Lozzo, Jan 12, 2004
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