As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
thats what the guy said i had it off but its a pain when i use it on the road only, as i have to carry oil with me and a measure jug.You will always - ALWAYS- get better lubrication and bike performance using pre-mix with a quality synthetic oil. I have disconnected the auto lube on every bike I have had it on. Cam.
thats a good idea thxI used to premix for an RZ350 street bike. I modified the stock oil tank to carry the oil and all I had to do was carry a small graduated lab container (with a screw top) for measuring out the oil. A bit of a hassle but worth it. Previously I froze the crank $$ after the oil pump stopped working. Cam.
thx for that i will check pump the way you say, its a good idea as i would like the pump on as i know then the bike is getting the correct oil and i need not worry about over oiling and under oiling thx very much markI've seen far more seizures due to incorrect premix ratios than I have due to oil pump failures.
My suggestions would be to connect up the oil pump but route the outlet to a container rather than to the bike. With pre mix still in the tank, start the bike and see if the pump does its thing. If it pumps steadily and the air bubbles disappear out of the oil line then you can be relatively sure the pump is working and you could connect it to the bike.
You also need to be sure that you are using an injector compatible oil rather than a pre mix oil in the oil tank and that the fuel tank is refilled from empty with neat fuel straight away else you'll be over oiling. You will then need to check the jetting as in theory to convert to premix would have required a larger main jet.
Bear in mind if any of this goes wrong or the pump isn't working it will seize up so you should be very sure everything is working correctly. Any doubts then I'd recommend taking it to a dealer to convert back. It will be cheaper than buying a new cylinder and / or repairing any crash damage if it seizes and tips you off!
Dave