Help! 511 leaking fluids!

[riz]

I was looking for the same grade Mobil 1 for my bike but couldn't find any in the shops nearby. I'm using Lucas 10w at the moment.

He says he's using Elf 10w btw. should be ok, right?

 

[Rearwheelin]

That is crazy same oil here in Aus is around the $90 mark for 5 liters.

How much a hour or year does the average Joe make there ?

 

[Tinken]

Who's Joe?

 

[Rearwheelin]

Who's Joe?

People who work for a living and ride bikes.

 

[philfy20]

Australia's average wage is currently around the $65,000 mark. However due to the mining the boom we have truck drivers getting paid over $100,000 just to drive trucks for the mining companies.

 

[Rearwheelin]

Australia's average wage is currently around the $65,000 mark. However due to the mining the boom we have truck drivers getting paid over $100,000 just to drive trucks for the mining companies.

That's good ! I don't understand why the mobile oil is so expensive though . Most people think driving a truck would be a easy job . Can be depending on your line of work. I can make 6 figure doing what I do driving a truck , home every night and every weekend off. I make it clear to my boss 10 hrs a day is all I need and since I'm soo good at what I do he listens.. He he

 

[Caiman]

Australia's average wage is currently around the $65,000 mark.

Average wage is $73,000ish, the median is $58,000ish (not sure if this includes superannuation). Adult minimum wage is $16.37/hr.

Everything costs more down under, we call it the Australia tax, it's built on the misnomer that things cost many times more because they have to ship it half way around the world. We do have import taxes, duties, GST, higher wages etc. to factor in, but to a large degree it's just compnies charging what the market is willing to pay.

 

[Tinken]

The land down under is actually the top of the planet. England originally created the world maps and somehow justified making them upside down. :P

 

[jeffrodub]

The land down under is actually the top of the planet. England originally created the world maps and somehow justified making them upside down. :P

Huh!!

 

[Caiman]

Magnets!

 

[riz]

so I'm actually pretty close to the top of the world then...good to know

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

Well, if you're in Jakarta, your claim to fame is not the top of the world, but you are among the fastest of earth's inhabitants, the equator of the earth travels at 1,674.4 kilometers per hour. Standing at either pole, and you rotate around once a day, very slow pace indeed.

As for top and bottom, there really is no such thing, top and bottom really come from gravity and gravity has no top nor bottom if there is no reference point, it's like saying that the Aussies are standing on the planet upside down from NAmericans or vice versa. EVERYTHING is relative.

 

[Tinken]

^^^ Haha

 

[riz]

Well, if you're in Jakarta, your claim to fame is not the top of the world, but you are among the fastest of earth's inhabitants, the equator of the earth travels at 1,674.4 kilometers per hour. Standing at either pole, and you rotate around once a day, very slow pace indeed.

As for top and bottom, there really is no such thing, top and bottom really come from gravity and gravity has no top nor bottom if there is no reference point, it's like saying that the Aussies are standing on the planet upside down from NAmericans or vice versa. EVERYTHING is relative.

That means my bike is faster than all of yours even when it's parked

 

[jerbear610]

It was probably just a typo...

So do you spend $22 bucks on a bottle of European Car oil ? And I thought the MC oil was a little excessive at $15 a bottle...
If those are gallon or 5 qt jugs then I'm an idiot and please disregard...

 

[oregonsage]

5 qt jugs they are...
See the 5 in lower right corner

 

[Tinken]

$4.50/quart

 

[OlderHuskyRider]

My earliest memory of changing oil in cars and motorcycles, oil was 99 cents a quart and you had to have a church key or a screwdriver to get the oil out.

 

[teuchter]

Here's the Zip-Ty vent in service on my 2011 TE449. No oil in air box and I put one full quart of 0/40 Mobil 1.

I like the look of this design too. I've seen others on here say you risk draining dirt back to the engine by connecting the vent to the airbox location and have seen others install independant breather filters. Isn't that risk true of the OEM vent?

Also, some are installing an oil recovery box where you have a tee.

I just received my ZipTy vent and am fixing to install it.

Could somebody provide some guidance on the benefit of installing the oil recovery box vs. a tee?

Is it that the oil recovery box provides residence time for the oil and vapor to separate so you get better separation?

Also, how about the dirt contamination issue? Should there be an independent vent breather filter?

 

[oregonsage]

I like the look of this design too. I've seen others on here say you risk draining dirt back to the engine by connecting the vent to the airbox location and have seen others install independant breather filters. Isn't that risk true of the OEM vent?

The stock vent is to the clean side of the airbox, not the dirty side. So hooking here is no different than where it vented originally

Also, some are installing an oil recovery box where you have a tee.

I just received my ZipTy vent and am fixing to install it.

Could somebody provide some guidance on the benefit of installing the oil recovery box vs. a tee?

Is it that the oil recovery box provides residence time for the oil and vapor to separate so you get better separation?

Also, how about the dirt contamination issue? Should there be an independent vent breather filter?

See above.