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Not quite finished yet. All I have left to do is fit the exhaust and fuel tank and fill with oil. Start up tomorrow!
 
Works perfectly for draining the oil tank.
 

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Ian James said:
That oil is far too black. Use it (the funnel) more often, don't mean to be nasty but wow
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The oil is black because of the piston ring issues.

Larry, I’d fill with cheap oil and change after 100 miles. Or use a proper flushing oil. Get rid of all that soot and crap out of that nice new engine !
 
My oil filters arrived today from Amazon, finally. The bike was going to started over a week ago but I discovered that I had no filters on hand. Damn it! New filters were just delivered late this afternoon. I got three.
 

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New filter and oil filled and ready for start up. Pushed the magic green button and she fired right up. Sounded fine with zero smoke! Verified that oil return was taking place. All good. No test ride because of shit weather. Might not happen until spring at this point. I'm fairly certain all is good in Nortonland.
 
I picked up these saddle bags for $30.00 on a local marketplace post. NOS bags. The guy even delivered them to me. Not bad for the price.
 

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Larry S said:
New filter and oil filled and ready for start up. Pushed the magic green button and she fired right up. Sounded fine with zero smoke! Verified that oil return was taking place. All good. No test ride because of shit weather. Might not happen until spring at this point. I'm fairly certain all is good in Nortonland.
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Good news then Larry - after all you have been through I all will be fine!
 
Larry S said:
My oil filters arrived today from Amazon, finally. The bike was going to started over a week ago but I discovered that I had no filters on hand. Damn it! New filters were just delivered late this afternoon. I got three.
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Ugh! The dreaded "wrench off" K&N leakers. These were found to fail at the spot welds on the silly nut. Banned from many racetrack organizations in US. Were recalled a few yrs back after too many reports of failures. So.e no doubt were owners using the nut to torque up filter but have heard several first hand reports of owners saying they only tightened by hand as specified and still failed. One guy on the triumph rat forum had his Bonneville engine seize up from one. Got k&n to fund a replacement engine.

A solution looking for a problem IMHO.
 
Tornado said:
Ugh! The dreaded "wrench off" K&N leakers. These were found to fail at the spot welds on the silly nut. Banned from many racetrack organizations in US. Were recalled a few yrs back after too many reports of failures. So.e no doubt were owners using the nut to torque up filter but have heard several first hand reports of owners saying they only tightened by hand as specified and still failed. One guy on the triumph rat forum had his Bonneville engine seize up from one. Got k&n to fund a replacement engine.

A solution looking for a problem IMHO.
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Probably fine , nortons don't have much oil pressure ! 🤣
 
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