• From: San Francisco
  • Registered: 2011-07-25
  • Posts: 329

Re: Bike engine oiling

After a quick search, there are swinging oil pickups...they're just a bit fancier than a pickup on a hose:

http://store.440source.com/External-Swi … /200-1075/

http://www.angrysheepmotorsports.com/20 … l-pick-up/

http://books.google.com/books?id=6JIHWW … mp;f=false

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t20/camel_geselle/Oilpickupcopy.jpg

(The above pic taken from http://www.edgebuggyforums.com/viewtopi … mp;t=4252)

  • From: Tustin, CA
  • Registered: 2010-12-30
  • Posts: 3,275

Re: Bike engine oiling

Female Observer - "My, that's a nice race car you have"

Me - "Yeah, you should see my big swinging pickup hose"

1990 RX7 "Mazdarita"  1964 Sunbeam Imp (IOE 2013 Sears Pointless) 2002 Jaguar x-type (Winner C-Class 2021 Sears Pointless)
Gone bye-bye
1994 Jaguar XJ12 (Winner C-Class 2013 Sears Pointless)  1980 Rover SD1 (I Got Screwed 2014 Return of Lemonites)
  • From: Hayward, CA
  • Registered: 2010-03-23
  • Posts: 1,762

Re: Bike engine oiling

X-args wrote:
BigDave wrote:

Hey X-args, your reply just sparked a lightbulb.

Yep, that would do it. Think Accusump levels of extra oil, maybe 1-1.5 qt extra.

Speaking of sparking a light bulb, Why not just add an accusump to the engine via the oil filter. We have done this with a Accura engine.

I went and looked for a picture of the F4i engine and it has a standard spin on filter. Get a filter sandwich plate, block off the output port so that its a one port device and use an accusump on each engine. You want the post filter oil pressure to fill the Accusump and fill back to the engine.

"But Accusumps are $250! How can we......."

Build a cheap accusup out of a 1 or 2 quart propane bottle which is hung upside down. use a big (1/2 -3/8) hose and fittings for max flow.

Dudes Ex Machina: https://www.facebook.com/dudesexmachina

?Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell- Frederick Nietzsche