120 mile ride! By bcgreatness (Read 835 times)

[bcgreatness]

took my scoot out to tampa the other day to visit my father. im in sebring and hes in tampa. its about a little over 90 miles but i had to make a pit stop 30 miles out of my way before i could depart. its normally a 2 hour ride in a car doing about 70-75 mph. wish i had a helmet cam or was able to take pics, sorry couldnt do it this time. started out on the 30 mile ride and pushed the scoot hard. WOT almost the whole way. she didnt let me down. so when i got back from the 30 mile ride i decided not to push the scoot anymore and cruised at 50 mph the whole way, cruised 60 a few times. i made 3 stops, once every 30 miles and let my scoot cool for about 20 mins. so a 2 hour drive took me about 3 n a half hours. was pretty nice, scoot didnt give me any problems at all. did notice by time i made it to tampa, most my oil blew out. not sure if it came from the vent or not but will inspect in daylight tomorrow. very very pleased with quality of my 08' chino scooter. she didnt let me down! i am considering getting an oil catch can with filter to relieve crank case pressure as im sure that was the reason the oil blew out. also going to look into an electric pump oil cooler so i dont have to stop so many times to let her cool.

[Bashan]

Well allright BC for hanging it out there with the long ride! I say go through the scoot best you can and hit the road, that's what they're for. Yep, it's the crankcase ventilation that sucks out the oil. If you have the vent tube hooked up to the airbox in any way the negative pressure will draw it down pretty quick at WOT. I take my vent tubes off of the air system and run them uphill with a filter of some sort on the end. Then, any oil that accumulates in the tube runs back downhill into the case when you shut it off. Rich

[bcgreatness]

yeah thats the plan to do something like that. im just trying to think of what i can use to make one. i have hose and clamps i just want to find a cool bottle like the ones ive been seeing monster gy6 use. NOT the one they sell but the ones you see on his project scoots. what im looking for is the blue NOS bottle. i know its an energy drink bottle but i have not seen them for a while and last time i looked for one i didnt see it in any stores. will have to go with less stylish bottle for now lol. didnt you or someone on here do a franken-scoot with a home made oil cooler? any progress or testing on that yet? i need to make one. wow your up awfully early rich lol.

[Bashan]

Apr 7, 2012 2:57:58 GMT -6 bcgreatness said:

wow your up awfully early rich.

Look who's talking Mr. Original Post at 1:50AM! I'm a lifelong insomniac, luckily it doesn't happen every night. Here's our catch can thread from Memorable Posts. There's a couple clever ideas on there....and then there's mine.

[kz1000st]

Not to be Captain Obvious but if Tampa is 90 miles away, and you did 30 miles before you left for 120 miles, Uh where are you now? Did you ride the 90 miles home, trailer the scoot or send it Federal Express (like another infamous writer on a Florida trip). Inquiring minds want to know.

[bcgreatness]

i went to visit my father he lives in tampa. the day i was supposed to ride home the weather took a turn for worst, had to wait out the storm and the next day my father just drove me home, scoot in the back of his pickup.

[silverfox96]

I was just wondering; instead of just emptying the catch can occasionally, if it would be better to perhaps modify the plastic like dipstick: Cut the measure off and drill a hole through it and install a brass nipple on the top side. Then you could actually run a drain hose from the bottom of the catch can to the oil fill hole. I think the vent opening in the can would have to be large enough in diameter so it wouldn't actually force the oil back into the crank-case, but allow it to drain via gravity. Any thoughts on this? I may try this on my 150cc.

[bcgreatness]

well the idea is to hook the crank case vent hose to a catch can and then put a filter at the top of the can so that way it gets better pressure relief and also the oil that builds up in the can will drain back into the crank case via gravity like you said. now as far as your idea goes with the fitting going into the oil fill, that would be an excellent idea when i get around to building a DIY oil cooling system. after the oil passes through a small radiator, i could loop the system back to the oil fill hole to complete the cycle. i just need to find an electric pump capable of pumping oil at a strong enough pressure that wont erode from pumping hot engine oil.

[silverfox96]

I realize that is what the vent hose to the filter, then hung high enough so it will drain back into the valve cover, the only problem that I have with that is if you ride a lot at WOT, you can blow oil out of the vent tube to the point where you can actually wind up out of or low on oil. I personally wouldn't want to take the chance on the oil draining back into the valve cover and possibly getting into the engine via the intake valve. That's why I thought that draining it back into the crankcase via the fill hole would perhaps be a better idea. Not trying to be difficult with you at all, rather just making an attempt to explain myself so you can more understand my why's. If I can say it that way? LOL