has anybody used both of these? if so what do you recomend for me on the new Tiger i pick up tomorrow. i put about 20 thousand on a year and had a Lobman on the last bike. :)
Used scottoiler on my last two bikes and the chain I have on the tiger at the moment has nearly 17k on it. I highly recommend the Scott cheers Spud :wink:
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What he said.
I used a scottoiler on my old TDM850 for about 10 years, when I bought the tiger I got a new scottoiler, I recommend them.
Both bikes were & are fitted with touring versions.
Only ever used scott oiler and have had one on every bike I have owned, never had any trouble with them and chain life is incredable, 24k miles on me Tiger and still going strong
Ride magazine did a good test on chain oilers, you can read it here:
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/Ri ... 20test.pdf (http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/Ride%20Magazine/Product%20test%20pdfs/Chain%20oiler%20test.pdf)
Just to add, after I read the article, I bought a Tutoro Oiler with a single outlet. I am very impressed. It works best with chain saw oil, but I have run it on engine oil. Slightly small oil resevoir, but I bought their aluminium top up bottle for longer rides.
Tutoro oiler fitted to my Tiger
Recently fitted this system (Cameleon, out of Canada) to the '93 Tigger.
So far, so good.
Appears to deposit just the right amount, in the right spot, and can be re-programmed to put more or less according to conditions.
Great if you get caught in a storm, chain is always nice & damp with oil at the end of a ride.
And no fling-off with the supplied oil.
where did you mount the scotoiler resevoir etc on the 'Steamer' ?
Buy the touring kit, then the whole lot mounts behind the number plate
Thats what my Tiger came with....simples
gotta be the scott oiler really. had one fer years on me tiger and its great. chains last for ever and chain slack only needs checkin bout every 1500 miles :D
Quote from: "John Stenhouse"Buy the touring kit, then the whole lot mounts behind the number plate
Yep get the big old bottle behind the number plate. cheers Spud :wink:
Tiger has touring Scottoiler behind numberplate, holds so much oil I can't remember last time I filled it. Chain so far 20k miles with no appreciable wear.
Blackbird is on it's second chain with Scottoiler. First did 28k miles, this one has done 32k miles and has only been adjusted twice, lots of wear still left.
In my experience (from the one chain I've had to change) is that eventually it's the "o" rings that go and you get seized links due to all the winter crap. The metal parts never wear appreciably.
I use this type :-
http://www.pdoiler.co.uk/index.html (http://www.pdoiler.co.uk/index.html)
Don't know if everyone who's replied have used both but I have and I wouldn't go back to a Scott again. Ran one on a CB250 doing 15,000 a year and the vacum hose split and knackerd the rings in that cyclinder. The guy who sells the above makes them for Motax and they sell them at 90 quid and you'll have to pay something like 20 extra for the remote flow adjuster were as this guy sells it with that for around 70 if my memory is correct. I use Scott oil in it. The adjuster is easier to use as well than the Scott. This has numbers so if you're out in rain you can whack it up to max and then its easy to put it back down to the correct flow, around 1 drip per 30 seconds, but with the Scott I found it a pain.
I installed a pro-oiler last year. It works great and I highly recommend it.
Quote from: aesdjI use this type :-
http://www.pdoiler.co.uk/index.html (http://www.pdoiler.co.uk/index.html)
Ran one on a CB250 doing 15,000 a year and the vacum hose split and knackerd the rings in that cyclinder. quote]
How?
Quote from: "NKL"Quote from: "aesdj"I use this type :-
http://www.pdoiler.co.uk/index.html (http://www.pdoiler.co.uk/index.html)
Ran one on a CB250 doing 15,000 a year and the vacum hose split and knackerd the rings in that cyclinder. quote]
How?
Because that cyclinder was runing weak all the time. On that bike there's a screw on top of the cyclinder head thats for mounting your gauges for syncing the carbs. Thats were you screw in a nipple screw that comes with the Scottoiler to fix the hose too. It was a heavy bike with a little capacity engine because I believe Honda down graded it from the 400 to a 250 when the laws changed and most of its miles were 2 up which I think speeded up the damage because of the load it was under all the time but it was the main cause because the other cyclinder was like new.
Sorry but have you read it to mean I ran the PD on the CB because if thats so ignore the last post. I said:-
Don't know if everyone who's replied have used both but I have and I wouldn't go back to a Scott again. Ran one (meaning Scott)on a CB250 doing 15,000 a year and the vacum hose split and knackerd the rings in that cyclinder.