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koolaid_kid
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Your cooler should be fine unless you have a larger hot rod motor. Lockhart makes some good ones.
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Oil cooler?
- Thread starter Rob S.
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OK, cool. I am planning on a 1229 soon, so I will look at Lockhart.
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Guest
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The 1150 cooler with the top end oiler will be fine with the 1229.
Are you going to run stock cams?
Are you going to run stock cams?
I want hotter cams and will be asking Ray to set up a head for it.
Awesome, Greg. Thank you. I love this board!
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Kyler
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at the risk of being accused of being a snake-oil salesman, you might consider adding Liqui-Moly. If you are doing all that to your motor, you need extra protection. You can go look at my oil samples and see how it improved lubrication. My cams are mildly grooved and the metals in the oil went down significantly after adding it.
Few oil additives ever really seem to stack up. In a well sorted, healthy motor, modern oil is more than adequate.
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Triam
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Wait. Are we saying her that the oil additives actually should be in our oil instead of diesel oil? I thought that additive-free oil was preached here like the gospel.
high zinc content is a thing of the past in diesel oils..not much higher than car oil content(but a little higher).
off road/racing oil has the high zinc levels but at 8 bucks give or take for a quart...
brad penn makes excellent oil(old kendall green formula)
not sure if the zinc additive would be ok for wet clutches...i'm not sure if they have other stuff in them.
off road/racing oil has the high zinc levels but at 8 bucks give or take for a quart...
brad penn makes excellent oil(old kendall green formula)
not sure if the zinc additive would be ok for wet clutches...i'm not sure if they have other stuff in them.
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TeamNeal
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Triam, where can one obtain one of these 8v oil cooler adapters for a 8v 550?
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Triam
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Suzuki-GS1000S-Wes-Cooley-GS1000-oil-cooler-adapter-/310844418469
That's the only one I could find listed anywhere. Mine came with an adapter on the bike, but no oil cooler. they had just plugged those two holes and were starving the engine head for oil.
I saw somewhere that someone took the OEM oil pressure switch housing and added two holes tapped with pipe threads so they could divert the flow to a cooler.
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Triam
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I just checked out the numbers, and it looks like if you buy just the adapter from this kit:
http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=216922
It should fit on your bike, and you can use it for an oil cooler instead of top-end lubrication. Apparently the switch housing didn't change on all these bikes.
Actually they are different. The 8v distribution block has a neck to capture all flow to go to the cooler then return it back to the same distribution block. The 16v returns through the filter with no neck.
gs11ezrydr
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I was under the impression that you had a gs1100 with the oil cooler lines on each side of the filter cover, These GS 550 coolers are cheap and plentiful. You would just either adapt them or install a restrictor or an 1150 efe cover depending on your model. But coolers, lines etc. are reasonable I think. Just check Ebay for the Gs550 oil coolers and see what I mean if it may help you if your looking for a cheap cooler.
