oil coolers on nc30's

[CMSMJ1]

Cool - thanks Dave. It all makes sense to me. Let's have it fitted then Rhory

[royster81]

yep so this is my next problem ,to find a nut big enough and chop it in half so i can do what you did dave.......or you could be a gent and post me yours and i'll pay postage both ways :D :D :D


it's worth a try

mark,what dave posted up is what i have but i'll get a pic of mine anyway

curiousity is getting the better of me here and i'm wondering is anyone else about to try it since i have started this thread ?

[Morespeedvicar]

Could you use 2 old oil filter bottoms and cut them into nuts shapes? If that makes any sense at all............
Cheers
Ian

[royster81]

oh well ,today didn't really go as expected ......

[Speedy]

oh well ,today didn't really go as expected ......

Oh, oh, what did you go & do?
It's good to see someone do this mod and share it on here; more luck and £££ to you Sir, so you can get it finished soon!

[royster81]

oh well ,today didn't really go as expected ......

Oh, oh, what did you go & do?
It's good to see someone do this mod and share it on here; more luck and £££ to you Sir, so you can get it finished soon!

cheers antonio ,i'm sure this isn't going to come as a surprise to many .....



dam nc30's being so compact !!!!!

[royster81]

so yesterday started off well,i remembered i had a few more bits to get so set about finding those,30 mins riding around on the bike got me a new sump bung washer and a huge nut to help remove the standard oil filter stub.

my assistant(some might remember him for other experiments like the "bi carb bomb" and "bi carb as a rust eater") told me he would surface from his hangover around 12 so i set about sawing the huge nut in two with the smallest junior hacksaw i could find in the garage and began stripping the bodywork from the bike.

20 mins late i had arms like BA baracus and two nuts in my hand (way hey) to remove the stub.
once stu arrived we hit it with all the force a dude with a hangover and a guy with a sore arm could muster....coolant out...oil out...rad removed and the two nuts on the stub.....bish,bash,bosh.... stub in the hand ....two nuts attached,this i can't take any credit for as i was making tea and eating biscuits and stu was doing his best...


next up was fitting the exchanger,stephen had told me make sure you locktight the centre bolt in as we really don't want this to come loose and locktighted in it was,then the sky man rapped the door to fit my new sky plus stuff,sweet,could this day get any better ,i'm half way to fitting my oil cooler and some dude is hooking me up with sky tv.

after this nothing really went to plan.
no sky card meant no sky plus until it arrives and thats hopefully going to be monday or tuesday but the biggest kick in the nuts the the blasted fan.

we screwed on the oil filter and jigged about the exhaust so there was clearance between the header and the filter,refitted the fan and the inch bracket to extend the lower mounting and swung the rad forward,but that left very little clearance between the tyre and the rad so i tried to refit the bodywork to make sure it was all going to mount and line up ,which it didn't...so off came the bodywork and off came the fan.





we hooked up the pump cover and attached all the piping,filled the rads with coolant and the motor with oil and started up the bike.after we bleed the rads of air and topped them up the last thing to do was fit the bodywork for the last time and run the bike up the road...then the next and maybe the biggest kick in the nuts. the barb that comes out of the pump cover interfers with the bodywork....are you serious .....


a quick email and a few measurements should have a new shorter MKII version made but becasue of this i can't run the bike to tell you guys what i think of it.sh1t or what.

so this experiment has been a fail and "must try harder" ,once the shorter barb comes i'll refit it all and let you know how it goes,to be honest i'm a little pi55ed off i couldn't keep the fan as this was half the reason why i set about doing this mod but unless i ( or someone else) can find a thinner fan there is no way a stock fan rvf or vfr is fitting in there,so maybe this is a mod for the racers or the crazy few that run a street bike without a rad fan (that'll be me then) but once the new barb is made and fitted i'll be back on here.

sorry for the fail guys...

[nath30]

quick question. what is holding the oil cooler in place?

[royster81]

have a look at the picture DAC put up,in it there is a long threaded bolt with holes in it

[CMSMJ1]

Come on mate - you have not failed. You have stuck your nuts in the breeze and decided to make an effort to fit something to the bike that should not be there.

The barb issue is a bitch for sure..but you can get the mk2 version and get it sorted.

With the fan..hmmm - it is a tough one. I don't run one...I must be crazy..lol but with your extra oil heat going into the coolant you will want to be looking to keep it as chilly as possible.

Hows about some pure water and some water wetter. I would imagine your garage is not going to freeze over the winter and that this cooler is going on the track bike rather than the castrol bike?

If all esle fails - there may be a fan available fomr another bike/scooter etc that wil fit into the space.

or..an even shorter oil filter?

either way, strength to your arm for even getting this far...lots of people talk the talk...but you are walking it!