ainsjac wrote:Actually, I do use a bit of used oil on my place. Don't tell the environmentalists, but you can "paint" the oil on timber posts and rails ...old style fences....and the oil stops the wood from drying out and splitting
CF....hate to see what the delivery charges would be to send yours to me..

Mine is still in containers stored safely in the garage. I also have containers for used coolant and other nasties.
Did I mention I worked for a company called OTEK for ten years?

rossco wrote:Did I mention I worked for a company called OTEK for ten years?

Years ago, Nova Scotia was the world leader in recycling. I don't know if it's still the case, but the Nova Scotia Government is committed to maintaining a goal of 50% waste diversion and to reach a target for waste disposal of no more than 300 kilograms per person per year (kg/per/yr) by the year 2015.

This is great, but it has a downside.... We have to pay a recycling tax on a lot of our purchases, and at the end of the year, it adds up. I would say that this is a fair tax as only people buying 'stuff' pay it.

CF

owning a K100 is recycling......

Good poi8nt...recycling. The old oil is recycled on the wooden posts....everyone is a winner!.....except for me....Rossco doesn't want me to win.

That is like jumping off a tall building....you are jumping to a conclusion.

So having some fun cleaning up the bike and thankfully its condition was mainly due to neglect and not damage.
Some grease from my elbow, lots of steel wool, a slow brass brush and WD40 (thanks Mike P) and some Sunlight soap has bought the old girl up a treat.

So I started to put it back together. I painted up the rocker cover I got from Saxkxson, checked the rubber gasket, bolted it back on and continued to put stuff back on.

Finally go to the point I could crank it over. Tank is almost empty and it was late so I didnt really try to get it running, but it turned over ok.

Then I noticed the oil.

All over the rocker cover.

Surely I did not do that bad a job putting the damn thing back on.

Stuffed a towel in there to catch the oil and went to bed.

Woke this morning.

That should have read GASKETS above.

Yes there are two.

Found the second one. Still on the old cover.



Hmmm. Should paint the fuel rail.

I have new gaskets for that. Let me know if you want me to bring them to Narranderra....or Putty or wherever it is we're meeting up.

Ooooooooops sound like an easy thing to do late at night at least it wasn't the aux drive shaft circlip

But i'm going to tell your wife that you made a oil stain on the nice clean concrete floor in the garage, nerrr

Looking forward to seeing it completed.

Thanks Sean, but the gaskets I have are ok and are doing the job fine. Now.

It would not have been such a problem if I had not forgotten I had wheeled the bike out (no mean feat with only one wheel) and then proceded to wash the bike.

Guess how much water went in behind the cover and then mixed with the oil and then went through the engine.

I think one minute of engine running is enough between oil changes. GRRRRR

But the oil floats RossKo then all you do is pull the plug and stick it back in when oil starts coming out

RicK G wrote:But the oil floats RossKo then all you do is pull the plug and stick it back in when oil starts coming out

Guess I was too impatient waiting for God to separate the two fluids

They'll never separate when you leave the motor running.

So had a few blown globes in the speedo and pulled it off to replace them.

What is this mess?
I am guessing the lower board is for the fuel light(s)? But why is such a dodgy job?

What are the top 3 wires for? Holes have been drilled in the plastic to pass them through and they attatch to what I think is the top of the speedo?

Oh, my tacho still swings wildly.

Seems to be only at higher revs, over 3k and will settle a little when doing about 110kph in 5th.
I won't ask if anyone has any suggestions cause I know they will, but does anyone have any suggestions?

So if we look at THIS
post, it may be that my dodgy wiring is part cause of my tacho going crazy?

I would say that it isn't doggey wiring but some wires that were soldered in to bypass some bad connectors. Those round rivit type are notorious for coroding and going high resistance or open circuit. The wild tacho could be for the same reason so check out the connectors that are like the ones where the wires are soldered and see if there is any corosion.

could this issue be just the simple fact that all the electronic components are nearly 30 years old

if it helps, i would suggest changing some of the capacitors in the electronic boards

these wild movements are typical of intermittent connections as rick suggests ....but it seems to me that that kind of overshoot relates to the charge pump dc averaging of the circuit that then drives the meter, a cap near the power supply area if it was low in value could well show similar sorts of issues as well as others in the circuit .....capacitors store energy ....well kind of ,,,, and if low in value could have drastic fluctuations and effects on the rest of the circuit

i would be looking at the connections at that multi pin connector from loom to instruments first

test the connections accross the ribon cable connections

then go inside and change with new capacitors that may have dried out ( common occurence in my industry ...tvs etc power supplies etc ) with same value

there are some prefered types that we have found consistently to be good performers ,,,look for Rubycon

as a brand name.

i have seen the same issue on a few of the earlier bikes ....,maybe the year of manufacture of the electronic boards more than year of production .....particually on seaniis 85 k amd albys 84 k ...but not sure of the electronics inside .....i have had no issues on my 86 model ....yet (but have solved the dieing speedo pretty well ...and only so far )

in this type of fault , it usually follows a batch of included production devices, rather than the design

does that help ?

My tacho needle is doing the dance as well. Still, I have owned 6 Triumphs, a Norton and 2 Ducatis. I'm just happy if anything works at all. Oh and Harley for 3 months. It didn't need a tacho. Thunk thunk.

Don't know if it cures your dancing needle, but here is the connections to check.

So 88BMW was not available.

Do you think this sends the wrong message?

Rossko....one look at you and most people will think.....BASIC

Red on black is almost impossible to see perfect!!!!

Well, now that I have a choice of bikes I put the K100 bars on the /2

Not been able to ride it yet as I am doing up the rear brakes but it should make a lot of difference to handling and comfort.
Found I was slouching a lot last ride to stay out of the wind a bit with teh big RT bars.
These make me lean forward more and hands a bit closer in.
Bit hard to see with all the junk equipment in the back ground, but the RT bars came almost back to the petrol cap.
Hmmm. Only one mirror.