Just wanted to share this idea I came up with few weeks ago, in case some other members want to try this. Or, maybe everyone else does this and I'm the last to figure it out. I don't know.
Anyway, my "T" uses a about 1 oz. of oil for about every 250 to 400 miles, depending on how hard I ride her. Since I've learned from other members to keep the oil around the 3/4 full mark to keep down foaming, I'm regularly adding a smidge of oil before a ride.
I started out using the traditional "small funnel" and guessing on how much I was pouring in. Didn't like this method due mainly to overfilling it a couple of times, plus it is a little messy. For my next brainstorm, I went down to the barn and retrieved a large irrigation syringe. This worked well for seeing how much you're putting in, but it was too fat to go down into the oil jug--- and was hard to suck the thick oil up through the small tip.
My pea-size brain was in high gear by now, when for some reason I was in the kitchen and opened the drawer that everybody's got one of. You know, the one where the medium woman (she ain't little anymore) keeps all that stuff she only uses once, or twice a year. There it was, just laying there.... calling my name. Begging to be more useful than just one day in November. It was just the right size, had the perfect size tip, and even had the ounces marked up it's side. Plus, I had heard of a Turkey Baster being used for other un-intended services, I had to give it a try. I quietly looked to see where in the house "Honey" was, then I snatched it from the drawer and ran to the shop.
It works great, with virtually no mess. As I lift it from the oil bottle I do put my finger on the tip, to prevent it from occasionally dripping a drop as I'm headed to the fill port. Before submitting this "award-winning" idea, I cut me a ten inch peice of 1/4 inch plastic tubing and pushed it on the tip of the baster. I stuck the other end down the dip-stick hole to the bottom of the oil pan, and just as easily removed the same amount I had just put in. This solves the over-filling problem, if it ever happens again.
I cut the tubing about ten inches long so if it was to ever slip off the end of the baster by suprise, it wouldn't drop down into the bowles of your "T". This would be a major AW-SH!T
I figure that at least two days before Thanksgiving, I can stick it down in some lawnmower gas and pump the bulb a few times. This should get the oil taste out of it.... right. All I'll have to do is sneak it back into that junk drawer, let her use it for one day, and then back to the shop it goes. Where in the heck is a turkey's "Baste", anyway?
Hope this helps,
Gramps
Anyway, my "T" uses a about 1 oz. of oil for about every 250 to 400 miles, depending on how hard I ride her. Since I've learned from other members to keep the oil around the 3/4 full mark to keep down foaming, I'm regularly adding a smidge of oil before a ride.
I started out using the traditional "small funnel" and guessing on how much I was pouring in. Didn't like this method due mainly to overfilling it a couple of times, plus it is a little messy. For my next brainstorm, I went down to the barn and retrieved a large irrigation syringe. This worked well for seeing how much you're putting in, but it was too fat to go down into the oil jug--- and was hard to suck the thick oil up through the small tip.
My pea-size brain was in high gear by now, when for some reason I was in the kitchen and opened the drawer that everybody's got one of. You know, the one where the medium woman (she ain't little anymore) keeps all that stuff she only uses once, or twice a year. There it was, just laying there.... calling my name. Begging to be more useful than just one day in November. It was just the right size, had the perfect size tip, and even had the ounces marked up it's side. Plus, I had heard of a Turkey Baster being used for other un-intended services, I had to give it a try. I quietly looked to see where in the house "Honey" was, then I snatched it from the drawer and ran to the shop.
It works great, with virtually no mess. As I lift it from the oil bottle I do put my finger on the tip, to prevent it from occasionally dripping a drop as I'm headed to the fill port. Before submitting this "award-winning" idea, I cut me a ten inch peice of 1/4 inch plastic tubing and pushed it on the tip of the baster. I stuck the other end down the dip-stick hole to the bottom of the oil pan, and just as easily removed the same amount I had just put in. This solves the over-filling problem, if it ever happens again.
I cut the tubing about ten inches long so if it was to ever slip off the end of the baster by suprise, it wouldn't drop down into the bowles of your "T". This would be a major AW-SH!T
I figure that at least two days before Thanksgiving, I can stick it down in some lawnmower gas and pump the bulb a few times. This should get the oil taste out of it.... right. All I'll have to do is sneak it back into that junk drawer, let her use it for one day, and then back to the shop it goes. Where in the heck is a turkey's "Baste", anyway?
Hope this helps,
Gramps
(or is this just one of those 'little things' that husbands do, inadvertantly mind you, to piss the Mrs. off?
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