Oil munching engine mystery solved!

[Thunderace]

So as we all know my medieval thunderace (as Si likes to call it) uses more oil than petrol.

Well when I got back today I thought I'd stop being lazy and actually have a look.

As I've said before small leak just below gear linkage, no problem just a gungy mess so no major leak there, a new gasket when time permits!

Upon further investigation, the bloody sump nut was only half in, now tight and no leak!

Idiot you might think....... well, when I returned from Germany the bike was transported a month before I came back and was taken to an old friend that owns a garage (Paradise Road Motorcycles in Downham Market, Norfolk) I asked him to mot the bike and give it a full service.

I paid £225 for mot and service.

Now as I didn't have an oil leak in Germany and I have not changed the oil since the service (March 2012) I only have one thing to say, VERY PROFESSIONAL OF YOU!:smt019

[The Idle Biker]

Errr? So you've been tearing around with an oil leak directly in front of your rear tyre?

and if that sump nut had undone....................ooooooohhhhhhh that would have been hairy scary.

[Thunderace]

Exactly! It looks like the fairing has been catching most of it, so I'm luck there and if the nut had fallen out at high speed I'd probly be pushin' up daisies by now!:smt051

[Fallout]

Definitely plebs corner, you utter pleb! Don't care if it wasn't your handy work. It'd be like me drinking tea that tastes like p1ss for 5 months before finally catching the mrs using p1ss instead of milk to make it. Perhaps not my fault, but my own plebbishness for not getting to the bottom of the p1ss tasting tea sooner.

Yes, my analogies are normally odd, but you're still a pleb.

[Thunderace]

Cheers mate!;)

[Fallout]

No probs pleb! :D

[Jammy]

you know that kid in class that makes you feel like your part of the popular lot simply because they're so plebbish...

[Thunderace]

you know that kid in class that makes you feel like your part of the popular lot simply because they're so plebbish...

Easy fella, cleaned my bike today............ and..........yeah it's still upright, no damage or anything!

The words pot, kettle and black come to mind!

[Fallout]

I would say it's like a lump of coal, at night, in the middle of a blackhole, calling the kettle black!

[Jammy]

Oh well, Being the mocker felt good for 5 seconds. Back to being the mocked. :D

[Fallout]

It's a hard one to shake off mate! But one day the multiple drops will be superseded by someone doing something truly embarrassing, and that will be your time mate. Then the dog will have his day!! :D

[Thunderace]

He's right someone could be really stupid and buy a bike with orange wheels!;)

[Fallout]

Or park in front of a PMT suffering trolley bandit.

[Jammy]

Someone please explain the orange wheel's jokes.... i think they look nice :compress:


I did get my bike resprayed orange though so i guess i have a bias :smt095

[SoulKiss]

It's a hard one to shake off mate! But one day the multiple drops will be superseded by someone doing something truly embarrassing, and that will be your time mate. Then the dog will have his day!! :D

Not so sure on that one - Scoobs still feels the pain of his Taser thread.

[Fallout]

Someone please explain the orange wheel's jokes.... i think they look nice :compress:

Cheers bud. Don't worry, it's their pathetic attempt to find ammunition against me. I'm so squeaky clean, orange wheels is their best effort. It'll all go away when I do something really stupid. :-D

[Spank86]

Really stupid?

more stupid than spending £160 on parts for something that needed a bit of a clean you mean?

And you say I never wash my bike!

[Fallout]

Unfortunately Ad, that's not as bad as it sounds. None of the money is wasted. I now have a bleed kit and fluid for brake maintenance, a spare wheel for track days, and I want to rebuild the callipers anyway, so I have the kit. Tis all money well spent, even if unnecessarily for the immediate problem!

[The Idle Biker]

[QUOTE=Fallout;2760511]a spare wheel for track days, /QUOTE]

2 days at Anglesey coming up on 15th/16th Sept. Fri/ Sat.:smt115
Best track in the UK with 2 days to take your time.
I'm going btw.:mrgreen:

[Fallout]

I would be tempted if I wasn't away on a stag doo chap. Don't know how you're going to do it though, only having one wheel on your track bike and all! ;)

[Spank86]

Can't you see his avatar fallout?

He only needs the one.

[Thunderace]

I would be tempted if I wasn't away on a stag doo chap. Don't know how you're going to do it though, only having one wheel on your track bike and all! ;)

How many stag do's you going to in the next few weeks?

[Fallout]

One at the end of this month, one half way through next month!

[Thunderace]

Lucky git, I got one to go to in January and if I'm free from call the wife still don't want me to go!:(

[Fallout]

Wives suck mate. Fact.

[Spank86]

Sounds like a good reason to get one.

[Fallout]

Not in that way mate. That kind of sucking only happens during the honeymoon period, and I'm not talking about the official one. I'm talking about the first few months, or perhaps even weeks, or days, or maybe even hours .. or never at all.