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DieselBob Full Member Offline Thumper - One Who Thumps Posts: 189 Goshen, IN Gender:	Oil Supply to the Cam 02/09/17 at 14:05:58 Comments?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28888 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #1 - 02/09/17 at 14:25:41 Robbing peter to pay paul? Looks pretty though. and if you haven't put a seal between the cam and the plug, then you're just feeding more oil to the chain.
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DieselBob Full Member Offline Thumper - One Who Thumps Posts: 189 Goshen, IN Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #2 - 02/09/17 at 14:44:41 Not mine. Some thumper in China. But, if nothing else he's got a touch of vintage bling going on there!!!
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #3 - 02/09/17 at 17:49:50 So this is a bad idea?
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Re: Oil Supply to the Cam
Reply #4 - 02/09/17 at 18:07:25

Kris01 wrote on 02/09/17 at 17:49:50:

So this is a bad idea?

It is probably a bad idea....as the oil you are redirecting to the cam is being taken away from the crankshaft bearings, and the oil flow coming out of the rod bearing is what oils the piston, cylinder, and upper rod bearing.

And as Verslagen suggested, if they haven't made some kind of a sealed connection to the end of the rotation crankshaft, the oil won't help lube the cam and it will just drop down the space between the up/down sides of the cam chain.

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Re: Oil Supply to the Cam
Reply #5 - 02/09/17 at 18:43:01

On the SR500 we do something similar but it already had a external oil line to feed the rocker box and the first upgrades was to feed it directly to exhaust rocker shaft and later upgrade feeds both intake & exhaust rocker shafts for better cooling and lubrication. Almost all the old British thumpers used a external oil line to the rocker box. Curious to see what they did on the inside of that engine , they had to do something otherwise it would loose oil pressure just dumping oil on the cam chain !

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #6 - 02/10/17 at 06:55:50 But it looks cool!
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 5112 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #7 - 02/10/17 at 14:40:07 I have to admit it does look cool , gives it a vintage look. Would like to see a pic of the whole bike!
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DieselBob Full Member Offline Thumper - One Who Thumps Posts: 189 Goshen, IN Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #8 - 02/12/17 at 21:38:40 Quote: Would like to see a pic of the whole bike! The bike is otherwise fairly unremarkable. Perhaps with the exception of the rear disc brake. I suppose I should post a pic of that over on the thread where T&T are attempting one. FWIW, the absence of a compression release would suggest this is an LS400.
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bobert_FSO Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 422 Wichita KS Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #9 - 02/13/17 at 06:18:34 I think it looks cool. I would be tempted to duplicate it as simply a non-working decorative item.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #10 - 02/13/17 at 17:48:58 Why would the LS400 not have a comp release?
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DieselBob Full Member Offline Thumper - One Who Thumps Posts: 189 Goshen, IN Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #11 - 02/14/17 at 03:55:44 The Suzuki engineers must have calculated the starter to be up to the task. They left the mounting boss undrilled and untapped. Saved a few bucks I suppose.
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DieselBob Full Member Offline Thumper - One Who Thumps Posts: 189 Goshen, IN Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #12 - 02/14/17 at 04:00:15 An even better pic.
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buster6315 Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 353	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #13 - 02/14/17 at 20:44:08 verslagen1 wrote on 02/09/17 at 14:25:41: Robbing peter to pay paul? Looks pretty though. and if you haven't put a seal between the cam and the plug, then you're just feeding more oil to the chain. So, that would be conveinent place to install an oil pressure gauge then? Now that would be cool!
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batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Oil Supply to the Cam Reply #14 - 02/15/17 at 19:26:47 Buster, A guage mounted there will show you pressure near the oil pump,which maybe 50+ lbs at higher rpm, but we really need to know the pressure at the cam, at idle so it won't be very useful .
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