a warning from a builder
Road Master
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From: Menifee, CA
Everyone wants to think that the guy that works on their bike is some undiscovered master blaster super tech that knows something that the engineers don't... Hate to break it to everyone but when techs get stuck we call engineers 🤣 I would say most good techs are smarter than the average guy, but not smart enough to not work on motorcycles for a living.
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From: South Carolina
I heard some guy knows a guy who heard that maybe someone thinks it is not a good idea, possibly.
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From: Inland NW
Everyone wants to think that the guy that works on their bike is some undiscovered master blaster super tech that knows something that the engineers don't... Hate to break it to everyone but when techs get stuck we call engineers 🤣 I would say most good techs are smarter than the average guy, but not smart enough to not work on motorcycles for a living. That's coming from me, a diesel tech.
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From: State of Confusion
I know right! they too get a bad rap..98% of all lawyers give the rest a bad name
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From: OH
One thing about us Engineers is that there are just some things that management and the bean counters take out of our hands. Then you have the industrial design people that place looks over function as well. Every time we design something, they make us cost reduce it 3-5 times before it ever reaches production. Those indestructible steel parts we used in proof of concept gets replaced with plastic and die castings. The features that make disassembly/re-assembly easy get taken out because they add cost.... The list goes on and on. Their used to be a time where you could be rewarded for solid designs and durability but those days are long gone.
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From: Massachusetts
One thing about us Engineers is that there are just some things that management and the bean counters take out of our hands. Then you have the industrial design people that place looks over function as well. Every time we design something, they make us cost reduce it 3-5 times before it ever reaches production. Those indestructible steel parts we used in proof of concept gets replaced with plastic and die castings. The features that make disassembly/re-assembly easy get taken out because they add cost.... The list goes on and on. Their used to be a time where you could be rewarded for solid designs and durability but those days are long gone.
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From: Upper Providence Pa
I can understand this. It's funny, every time time I walk through an antique store and see some of the old appliances from the 40's and 50's and how they were designed, and still function today, I am amazed. Now crap is is designed to just make it to the, almost fictional warranty period before failure.
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From: Dubuque, IA
I've never done either and never plan to simply because I've never had any indication why I needed to improve something or mitigate some problem..my 'solution' to the 'problem' of re-combusting the breather residue has always been to combust the Hell out of it by using the rpm range I paid for often
Anyone that thinks venting hot, oily air into the combustion chamber isn't harmful needs their head examined. The moco is forced to do stupid things like this by the epa. You're not.
It's been proven, repeatedly without fail years ago, to rob power and cause carbon buildup. That carbon buildup will cause a lot more problems than a few lost hp too when it gets bad enough.
Engines are meant to burn fuel and oxygen. The cooler the better. Not hot oily air.
Running low on oil isn't a very wise fix for poor venting either. Don't you run hot enough?
Last edited by 60Gunner; Dec 16, 2020 at 06:59 AM.