Another day another couple of hours messing with the Notrun. I popped into the workshop for an hour yesterday and decided it was time to drain the oil that had seeped into the sump and was horrified to find a small amount of black sludge stuck to the magnet on the sump plug! Where the fuck that came from on a bike that hasn’t run I didn’t know so I retreated to the house for a beer and a sulk.
I couldn’t leave it so this afternoon the strainer was removed from the sump and it looked brand new with only a couple of black streaks in the otherwise pristine oil so my guess is that there was something in one of the oil lines when I messed about with it last time and it had settled to the bottom where the magnet grabbed it. I took the strainer out of the oil tank and that was spotless but there’s rust (only a small amount) sitting in the bottom of the oil tank in the oil left there so I got a tiny little inspection mirror and sure enough the top of the oil tank has a bit of rust so I’d guess it’s come from condensation forming in there and when it dries out the rust flakes dropped to the bottom. There’s about 10-15 from the bottom of the strainer to the bottom of the tank so it’s not going to get into the oil supply but I’ll get it out with a magnet on a stick before starting it.
I topped up the oil in the primary chain case and the gear box so they’re good to go and if I could find a suitable implement I’d have primed the oil feed to the crankshaft but the turkey baster seems to be missing so maybe my wife has taken a sneaky look at the list of jobs remaining and knowing what I’m like hidden it
I’ll deal with that tomorrow then pour a gallon of unleaded into it and see how things progress from there.
I couldn’t leave it so this afternoon the strainer was removed from the sump and it looked brand new with only a couple of black streaks in the otherwise pristine oil so my guess is that there was something in one of the oil lines when I messed about with it last time and it had settled to the bottom where the magnet grabbed it. I took the strainer out of the oil tank and that was spotless but there’s rust (only a small amount) sitting in the bottom of the oil tank in the oil left there so I got a tiny little inspection mirror and sure enough the top of the oil tank has a bit of rust so I’d guess it’s come from condensation forming in there and when it dries out the rust flakes dropped to the bottom. There’s about 10-15 from the bottom of the strainer to the bottom of the tank so it’s not going to get into the oil supply but I’ll get it out with a magnet on a stick before starting it.
I topped up the oil in the primary chain case and the gear box so they’re good to go and if I could find a suitable implement I’d have primed the oil feed to the crankshaft but the turkey baster seems to be missing so maybe my wife has taken a sneaky look at the list of jobs remaining and knowing what I’m like hidden it
I’ll deal with that tomorrow then pour a gallon of unleaded into it and see how things progress from there.