Hi TJ,
I had a “dry ice blast” to my engine before I’ve removed any cover.
It was approx. 100,- Euros for that but it is worth it 😉
Having your bikes condition in mind, that would be a great help to work on a clean engine without the rest of the “green”.
Finally I have understood the additional oil pump installation. It is in addition to the stock oil pump but driven from the same sprocket on the balancer shaft.
Well, took a while 😉
That looks very feasable to have high pressure and high volume, as needed.
The electric fuel pump may push a high volume, but I can’t believe it has a high pressure output.
On the other hand it is 12V x 6A = 72 Watts. Our starter motor has about 500 to 700 Watts, not sure.
I expect this pump to be (much) smaller than the starter motor.
One question:
How do you tell the electric pump that it’s job is required ?
Ignition on and pump on seems to be to easy ? Manual switch to be actuated bears a high risk of forgetting to do so.
Engine runs (indicated via stock oil pressure sensor?) turns the electric pump on ?
Cheers, Michael
PS: Pic shows the dry ice cleaned engine, which looked horrible before.
