Oil, oil, everywhere.

Bugger.

Top tip. When you pull the drain plug from a hot Z1300 lump, it dumps
all 5.9 litres out very quickly.

Much more quickly than one of those nifty drain cans can take it in.

Still, nearly half of it went in the can, so it could have been worse...

At least I've found a use for some of the spare cement from the Great
Garage Base Laying.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Screwing the filler plug back in would have slowed it down a bit.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, tallbloke

What, the one that I'd dropped into the hot oil?

Yeah, you're probably right. :^(

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Heh.. btdt. The thing to have, is some sort of valve instead of a
plug.... maybe.

 

The filler plug, not the sump plug you muppet!

Happy new year Nigel

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, tallbloke

Ah. Manamanah...

Funnily enough, that was still in place. It really caught me by surprise
just how quickly it dumped the sump (as it were). Reminded me of India,
it did.

And to you mate.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Nigel Eaton was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

I've tried a few of those and they were all shite. Currently using an
old oil can with the side cut away - works rather better.

Mind ewe, Frost supposedly has some that actually work.

 

Washing up bowl is the daddy.

Although I had to use an old oil can on one of my vehicles (Hillman Imp
IIRC) as the bowl wouldn't fot under the sump

 

sweller says...

I have a large capacity but quite flat proper drain tray. I think it
holds 10 litres. Fits under a bike quite easily and doesn't spill a
drop. IIRC it cost me about 7 quid a few years back.

 

That's what I use as well, lined with a black bin liner.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Whinging Courier

I've got one that I've used before, but this drain can normally works
well. I've just never seen oil drain so fast from a sump.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Heh. I've got an old bathtub around somewhere...

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

I heartily condone the use of old oil cans. However, meine kleine
Teutonic vehicle saboteur, you seem to have omitted to note a basic
fact above ... bike oil comes in 4 (four) litre containers. Nigel's
mighty Z1300 engine, as stated above, contains 5.9 (five-point-nine
(like nearly fucking SIX)) litres of smoking hot and very runny oil.

You may be aware of a disparity at this point, hmm?

Use of an old can/bottle/container, although laudable, green and
recycling friendly - not to mention the wide and capacious orifice
capable of capturing even the widest and most violently-ejected stream
of hot smelly and runny foul ole oil ... would still leave BlingBloke
looking at a steaming puddle of nigh-on two litres of used semi-synth
on the deck.

I can only comment on this using these terms with the benefit of 20/20
hindsight, having used an old 5-litre can to drain my old Renault -
then as it was draining, read the manual which told me, at that
precise moment, that the sump held 6.2 litres. Plus, of course, on
this occasion, a litre of flushing oil too.
This therefore deserves a BT,DT,GTFOilyShirt.

 

Why did you put the flushing oil in to mix with the old oil? I thought
the whole point was to clean it out after all the old oil had drained
out?

 

'Cos that what it said to do on the side of the (one-litre) bottle:
Bring engine up to operating temperature (ensure the radiator fan cuts
in); add the litre of flushing oil; allow to circulate for five
minutes with the engine idling but not under load; cut engine; drain
oil.

The antique flushing oil, the real stuff, used to be used like that:
drain the old gunk, fill with flushing oil, drain and refill with new.

The 'modern' way is to add a litre of highly-detergent "oil"
to the old oil and cut a step out, effectively. I wouldn't normally
have done it but the old oil looked elderly, to say the least.

 

****, I've been insulted nicely, I think.

Shows how long it is since I've drained the oil, shuffles off to find
the manual

 

So, how come Nigel's rancid old shit-box of a Kazakh disco needs six
litres, when God's Own Motorcycle only needs three point seven?
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..73063../..17250.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

Because the very first Zed Thirteens had a slight reputation for blowing
their bottom ends in spectacular fashion.

Kawasaki's recommended fix was to increase the amount of oil in the lump
by a litre or two.

At least, that's how I remember it from the time. Lozzo may be able to
confirm.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Salad Dodger

Because the weedy lump they stick (as an afterthought) into the GL1500
is so under-powered that it needs less oil than a decent lawnmower. They
also have to take account of the fact that the average GL1500 owner is
so limp-wristed that picking up a container with six litres of used oil
would involve Getting A Man In.

In other I have unclogged the air-dirtier (it no longer qualified
as a filter) and looked in bemusement at six shiny, new, beautiful,
wrong spark-plugs.

(sigh)

Wonder if I'll be able to get any of the right ones tomorrow?

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

A decent bin liner won't melt with hot oil in it and you can then put
the squelch into a cardboard box and take it to your local oil recycling
place. I don't have an oil recycling place and just put the bag in the
dustbin.