MMRanch wrote on 08/09/19 at 06:18:36:Zepp
I spray engine cleaner in/on/around the fins on my bikes' head then hose it off with water a few minutes later. It works just fine for keeping things looking nice.
You have a very nice looking bike , that eagle . bags and tank bib really set it off nicely !
Do ya'll get a lot of good ridding weather in Sweden ? Are your mountains tall enough to be COLD up on top ? Our eastern mountains are high enough to be refreshingly cool in the summer with just a light jacket or big shirt.
I shall try to spray engin cleaner on the fins and wash moste of, merely to see if it comes more and from where. And to that I dont even know if former owners have done any service at all? I read the manual and about to check the cylinder/head nuts!
Anyway some former owner seems to have put more intentions to customise the bike then riding it?
And then we comes to riding climate.. I live in the soutwest part of Sweden, Latitudal the same as Minesota.. figure out way Swede Hollow lays around Minapolis/Chicago areas? But I live about the coast soo its probably more like New York?
Summer is june, july and august.. and it goes from 15 to 30 degres Celsius, 50-90 Farenheit and it rains a lot some summers!
So there ar seldome any need for going up any mounting to have a cooler ride.
And this bike that I bout comes frome a more north part of Sweden, about like southern Canada I presume.. east of Nowegian mountains.
And that to that.. I still dont know if any former owners have done any service, I have a small oil leak that I presume is from betwen the cylinder and the top. I read the manual and one should check the cylinder bolts every 6000 Km or anual.. or at least any second year.
Anyway, I would try to preserv this bike as an 2000 Savage with those 2000 extras that former owners put on it. Im self older and I want it to be my senior bike, soon!
I do read a lot here and on other places, Im a workshop mecanics, Im a bit lasy and old, so I have thouts about to do the testing abouot to tigheting of the cilinder to top nuts and the two extras in front and back to get rid of the oil leaking!
Anybody that have thougts about the probably oil leak or other sources of oil leak that almoste end up at the left fins are wey welcome!