Then there was my RZ350 that mysteriously was gaining gearbox oil. I had lambasted myself for overfilling it (tough run at work & not sleeping from stress I figured). Then it happened again, but I only found out after the bike had run the crank in the middle of a national park. I took it apart & “hey what the . . ?” Too much gear oil.
Turns out the shaft attached to the nylon gear moved the seal out of the way & was draining oil into the gearbox. Sadly this meant the oil was not all getting to where it should have.
This paranoia aside I will still run oil injection on my friend’s RZ500 (So it does have a purpose on a roadbike, perhaps a more clean environment so dirt doesn’t clog the injection system)
after he gives up the project & sells it to me cheap enough. Braced frame, upside down forks, modern brakes, Nikon pipes, huge weight loss.
Excellent. Now I just have to bide my time. . . .
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