rg50 bucket (of something)

[rua]

Happy to have the worlds skankyist looking rg that I'm try to sort as a bucket,

1st off a big thanks to bungbung who did the good re wire job following my attempt which consisted of making a mess then standing round looking at it till something else distracted me (didn't take long).

pretty much everything deemed unnecessary has left the bike now but at a bit of a loss about the old oil pump, the old tank has been disconnected and filed and pre mix used, is it ok to leave the pump in and dry, do I need to locate and remove, or bang it back on and let it work its magic? Taking it off won't make it faster just don't want to break it.

cheers

go the argy

[FROSTY:Me]

Mate I gotta ask--WTF ya doin disconnecting the oil pump??
Youre just givvin yaself a heck of a headache. Personally Untill Id done a fair few meetings Id leave it stock motor wise

[speedpro]

toss it. All that weight and friction will slow you down. Check that noone has fitted tubes as well, more unneccessary weight. Clean the pipe out as well, it's surprising how much carbon and old oil they can collect.

Of course if you weigh more than about 45K it won't make any differance.

[F5 Dave]

Oil pump: This is a cut & paste of my std answer on dirt bike forums:

Oil injection has the advantage that when you run out of gas in the middle of nowhere you can blag some straight petrol from the local farmer.

Many people slag off oil injection which works just fine in zillions of road bikes everywhere. These old world closed minded people cannot accept the risk that the oil pump mechanism will continue to meter oil reliably into your precious engine.

When I discovered (just in time) that my oil level of my old DT200 was not going down I became one of these people.

We meet on Tuesday nights.


As long as you plug that small tube (tiny screw & glue, solder whatever) going into the inlet & run premix then you will be mighty fine.
PS: that tube will come out with a bit of heat & some decent pliers. (best done away from gas tank).

The bike was cheap & you have to make the mental decision that no one is ever going to invest the money putting it back on the road are they?

Right, remove the pump & throw it away along with everything else you took off. Make a simple cover with a couple of bolt holes for where it used to live & a bit of silicone.

Clean that tank out. They do rust bad inside. Pull the filter out of the tank, but often it is best just to run always on main tank, they don’t use much gas. Take your tank cap off & pull the rubber back. Remove that piece of felt if it is still there. There is a small nick in the rubber for the breather. Make it bigger. Run a fuel filter. But beware, many starvation issues are caused by the fuel line kinking, also it is gravity feed so the line shouldn’t drop down & up on it’s path to the carb.

For a big increase in handling either find a race seat, or at least pull the foam off & replace with a sumptious piece of snow foam. (Never going to be a road bike again, remember?)

Take the antidive off by removing the bolts & using the small one & throwing the short line away. clean out the old antidive area of brake fluid, but doesn't need to be sealed if kept in tact.