***Solved*** ++Photo++ should my oil line look like this?
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:24 pm
Bought a 2008 Stella with a sidecar.
When I bought it, the guy had it idling really super high. Put it on a trailer and brought it home, and it wouldn’t stay running. No big deal, rebuilt the carb, all new gaskets, cleaned the jets.. wouldn’t start. Shucks, now there’s no spark. Put in a new cdi, new coil, new spark plug cable, and disconnected the kill switch.
Took it out for a spin. Drives great, then suddenly it does some weird thing where when I give it throttle it bogs and won’t go over a few mph. I’m eeking it home at 2mph and after about 10 minutes, it remains full power. Everything is completely normal. I end up riding for a couple of more hours.
The next day we are out and about, and after about an hour of riding it does the weird bogging. So we start inching home at 2mph. Basically it only bogs once the rpms climb. For instance I can shift it to the next gear, drop the rpms and it will get some more speed. Anyway. This goes on for about 16 mins.. and then it starts riding normal again. Then about two minutes later it soft seizes.
So I bring it home and I pull the oil line (the kind you can’t see through) and it takes a few seconds before any oil drips out. And even then it’s a real slow drip. I lift the tank and it flows better with gravity. I end up ordering a new oil line, the clear kind. I also take the autolube up and put a new gasket in.
So I put the clear oil line on and I prime the line. I ride around for a bit and I notice there’s a new air bubble. I end up taking the throttle linkage off and manually pushing the autolube up while the bike is running. The bubble travels like it should.
So I come out this morning and start the scoot.. take the cowl off and look down and there’s about 5 inches of empty space in the hose.
I assumed the oil would stay primed in the system.
Should it be? Is it right for the oil to back down the line? There’s no way it’s getting any oil in the time it would take for it to move that far up the line, right?
Any answers or suggestions on what’s up with this?
When I bought it, the guy had it idling really super high. Put it on a trailer and brought it home, and it wouldn’t stay running. No big deal, rebuilt the carb, all new gaskets, cleaned the jets.. wouldn’t start. Shucks, now there’s no spark. Put in a new cdi, new coil, new spark plug cable, and disconnected the kill switch.
Took it out for a spin. Drives great, then suddenly it does some weird thing where when I give it throttle it bogs and won’t go over a few mph. I’m eeking it home at 2mph and after about 10 minutes, it remains full power. Everything is completely normal. I end up riding for a couple of more hours.
The next day we are out and about, and after about an hour of riding it does the weird bogging. So we start inching home at 2mph. Basically it only bogs once the rpms climb. For instance I can shift it to the next gear, drop the rpms and it will get some more speed. Anyway. This goes on for about 16 mins.. and then it starts riding normal again. Then about two minutes later it soft seizes.
So I bring it home and I pull the oil line (the kind you can’t see through) and it takes a few seconds before any oil drips out. And even then it’s a real slow drip. I lift the tank and it flows better with gravity. I end up ordering a new oil line, the clear kind. I also take the autolube up and put a new gasket in.
So I put the clear oil line on and I prime the line. I ride around for a bit and I notice there’s a new air bubble. I end up taking the throttle linkage off and manually pushing the autolube up while the bike is running. The bubble travels like it should.
So I come out this morning and start the scoot.. take the cowl off and look down and there’s about 5 inches of empty space in the hose.
I assumed the oil would stay primed in the system.
Should it be? Is it right for the oil to back down the line? There’s no way it’s getting any oil in the time it would take for it to move that far up the line, right?
Any answers or suggestions on what’s up with this?