Re: Scottoiler fitting.
 

I have a mk7 to fit at some point and was wondering where the best place to put the reservoir was? Is under the pillion seat the norm? Mines a curvy not a pointy but I guess it doesn't make much difference between the two for placement.

Re: Scottoiler fitting.
 

Essentially you can put the reserviour where you like. The norm is under the pillion seat as it's out of the way and not an eye sore and fairly striaght forward to refill. But if you have a look and find another place where it can go where it's out of the way and easily refilled then I say go for it. Only thing I would say is where ever it goes try to keep the reserviour slightly up right as in my experience they can leak from the filler cap if the are horizontal for a time.

Re: Scottoiler fitting.
 

Ive got my reservoir on my curvy behind the lefty hand infill panel just under the riders seat, mounted on the back of the frame. There's a couple of tapped holes there that take the mouting bracket.

Looks like it shouldnt be too hard to refill it, worst case is taking the panel off.

This thread shows what I mean http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...ght=scottoiler

Re: Scottoiler fitting.
 

Hoping someone here can give me some advice. I am in the process of adding various bit to my bike and heard plenty of good things about these scottoilers and have decided to invest in one.

I have found a place to get them, but when I asked the guy on the phone about fitting them he said they are really fiddly to fit especially if you have never done one before and blah blah blah and would take thier garage an hour to do = £60ish labour.

From the sounds of it plenty of people have fitted scottoilers themselves - is he having me on? :confused: (I'm a girl by the way... is he trying to rip me off).

How long did it take to fit your scottoiler? And is it as complicated as Mr Ripoff made it out to be?

I'm willing to give it go, but I don't want to do half of it and get stuck then drag the SV to the garage :-k

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I would reckon fiddly but not difficult, if that makes sense. However I've not fitted mine yet, but there's no way I'm paying a garage to do it.

Re: Scottoiler fitting.
 

Fitting a scottoiler can be difficult if you're not confident or have little mechanical aptitude.

Hooking into the bike's vacuum, mounting the reservoir, and routing the tubing isn't so difficult.

The "fiddly" bit is mounting the dispenser tube so that it correctly applies oil to the rear sprocket. Glue, zip-ties, bending the injector tube just right, cleaning the rear swingarm, using the paddock stand mount, or rear axle nut as a mount point, or running it direct, making sure it feeds oil correctly onto the sprocket and won't interfere with the chain or sprocket and won't become dislodged... yeah that can take a little time to get right.

If you're decent w/a wrench, i.e. you can change your own oil & filter, spark plugs, etc., then you shouldn't have much trouble. If you can't do these things, maybe having the garage do it would be your best bet.

Re: Scottoiler fitting.
 

Difficulty wise I'd call it easy, took me about 2 hours but could do another in less than half that no problems. I spent about an hour (being stupid) trying to get the rubber bung off the nipple with my fingers... I couldn't so gave up and got the pliers on it, it came off in 10 seconds!!

The next hour was spent routing the cables, now I know the best place (in my opinion) to put them I could do another in 10 minutes, but kept routing them then thinking "ooh no how about here, ooh yeah that looks tidier, no-one's going to see it but I'd rather it went that way round". Haha.

Oh and my reservoir is under the pillion seat held in by a single cable tie and sits out the way and in a decent(ish) position. The feeder which puts the oil on the rear sprocket took a bit of fiddling, seemed fine to start with but checked it 20 miles later and readjusted it, then checked another however many miles later and secured it a bit better, it's fine now but that was the most difficult bit (and that wasn't hard whatsoever).

If you don't mind getting your hands dirty and follow the instructions, you shouldn't have a problem. Oh and mines a K5 fully faired, didn't need to take anything off except both seats.

Re: Scottoiler fitting.
 

worth having a little look here as well m8

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=145030

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Hmm.. well I am happy to do most of these things on a car, but as I am fairly new to biking and have only had my SV a couple of months haven't really had much time to need to do most of these on the bike yet... but I have a toolkit, a Haynes manual and all you wonderful helpful people so I'll pick a scottoiler up at the weekend and give it a go ;)

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yer, it's worth a go, just note that if you buy the universal kit you'll need to send off to scottoiler to get a T piece for the curvy (maybe pointy as well?), it's free apart from the two quid postage, just double check their website for your bike.