Scottoiler Question

[Drew Carey]

Hello Knowledgable Org. I have fitted a Scottoiler over the weekend and also fitted a dual injector.With the spout that actually provides the oil to the chain / sprocket, does it matter if the spout is in contact with the sprocket?The rear injector is fine, but the one on the front side of the sprocket is in contact and therefore has left a nice line where it is in contact. I know probably won't matter much just curious if I should try and adjust it? Cheers All. Drew

It can, if it is low enough to touch the sprocket as well. when you walk the bike backwards it can get caught and pulled ut by the teeth in the sprocket! also in summer the friction can cause the spout to melt and deform a bit, restricting flow.

this happened to mine and i ahd to use the spare and reposition it so it was amout a1-2mm from the sprocket.

[Drew Carey]

Cheers NeioThe spout is about 5 mm above the sprocket, so not in contact with the chain. I will have a look later at seeing if I can twist it away from the sprocket a little.Drew

if its not in contact with the chain then it wont get caught when wheeled back, but yes check its not rubbing on the sprocket due to the friction.

[northwind]

I left mine touching fractionally, and it wore staright throught eh anodising on my sprocket Took a few thousand miles though. Tough stuff that.

[Drew Carey]

Northwind. That is like mine, it is only slightly touching, if I bend the pipe away, it stays away from the sprocket, but when oil comes out, the drop sticks to the sprocket and the viscousity (Dont think that is spelt right) draws the pipe against it. So I have a nice line all round the sprocket.Anyone have any suggestions about how best to move it away? Would simply bending the tube work, cause if I put a spacer in then it brings it away too much.Drew

[Mark_h]

Slight de-rail here, but I used to have a single injector oiler on my 650. Just got a SV1000 with a dual injector and it seems to have trouble actually delivering oil. Given it's got a fairly long bit of thin black pipe then a complex plastic housing to get through unlike the single which goes big pipe straight into injector are the duals just a lot slower than the singles?

I've done all the bleeding, pressurising, checking for kinks, jet unblocking stuff you're supposed to do in thes ecircumstances bit it's still reluctant to do anything useful.

It's got the blue oil in it which I think is the right stuff.

Any ideas?

As for the original question, as long as the injector does not get sucked back into the chain when you push the bike backwards, having it touch the sprocket is not an issue. My old one was like that for about 15,000 miles. Pipe got a bit short eventually, but each time I put it on a paddock stand it got mangled so I gave up trying to keep it perfectly located and just as long as it ended up somewhere between the sprocket and the outside of the chain it seemd to do it's job perfectly well.

A bit extreme but i split mine in half and pulled all the gel stuff out of the inside plus cleaning it with a file to make the channels flow better. It works well now but you do need a higher flow rate, over half was round the dial for me.

The thing about the olier tip touching the sprokect I found this allowed the tip to get bunged up with dirt from the sprocket so I moved it

Originally Posted by Mark_h

Slight de-rail here, but I used to have a single injector oiler on my 650. Just got a SV1000 with a dual injector and it seems to have trouble actually delivering oil. Given it's got a fairly long bit of thin black pipe then a complex plastic housing to get through unlike the single which goes big pipe straight into injector are the duals just a lot slower than the singles?

I've done all the bleeding, pressurising, checking for kinks, jet unblocking stuff you're supposed to do in thes ecircumstances bit it's still reluctant to do anything useful.

It's got the blue oil in it which I think is the right stuff.

Any ideas?

As for the original question, as long as the injector does not get sucked back into the chain when you push the bike backwards, having it touch the sprocket is not an issue. My old one was like that for about 15,000 miles. Pipe got a bit short eventually, but each time I put it on a paddock stand it got mangled so I gave up trying to keep it perfectly located and just as long as it ended up somewhere between the sprocket and the outside of the chain it seemd to do it's job perfectly well.

[yorkie_chris]

Mines a small length of brass tubing, really easy to bend to exactly where you want it.
Only goes to the outer edge of the sprocket and funnily enough both sides of the chain are nice and oily.
I found the black stuff a right pain to use, kept getting munched up every time I wheeled the bike back and it was a right faff to get it to stay put.

If anybody else wants to go by the brass tubing method cheaply then you an have some if you come and get it or send me a SAE

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Drew Carey

Northwind. That is like mine, it is only slightly touching, if I bend the pipe away, it stays away from the sprocket, but when oil comes out, the drop sticks to the sprocket and the viscousity (Dont think that is spelt right) draws the pipe against it.

Can you find any qay to mount the delivery tube more securely? That seems to be the problem more than anything else.