Nasty looking oil

[Nick Calne]

Drained the steamer a couple of weeks ago.  Never seen engine oil like this before...



It was very viscose and totally black.  Is this indicative of a known problem, or just mega poor maintenance from the guy I bought the bike from?

If it's the latter, then gentlemen, we have a steamer abuser - let's form a posse, ride out and tar n feather him!

[JetdocX]

Looks like he got every cent of use from the oil.  Just buy feathers, you already have tar.

[nightrunner]

That's not so bad.  Filter it through a rag and you can a few more miles out it.  

[Sin_Tiger]

, you already have tar.

Took the words right out of my mouth  :lol:

I would be tempted to split open the filter and have a good look for metallic particles with a magnet, then use a very bright light moved around to look for non ferous particles. It's not what you got out but what's left in there that I worry about :shock:

If you don't find anything you can feel a bit more confident.

Might be tempted to run some flushing oil through or just run it for a hundred miles or so, then change it again. Has it been sitting around for a long time and just run idle from time to time?

If the trippl3 runs on that it will run sweeter on anything else  :P