I've been having some issues with my Scotoiler recently and originally I thought it was due to a hole in the delivery tube (when it was fitted, the old tube was glued at one point and when I needed to remove the swingarm, the only thing I could do was lever it off, causing a hole
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I'd tried wrapping it with electrical tape and then using heat shrink tube to cover it, but neither worked and the oil still leaked out below the hole, so I bought some tubing to replace the old stuff.
I got that installed today, but it still wasn't flowing and, after a lot of cursing and checking of websites etc, I figured out that it was probably the RMV (reservoir metering valve) that holds the oil and controls how fast it flows.
The cost of a new RMV on its own was around £70 from Scottoiler or on eBay, but then I checked Facebook Marketplace and found a bloke near Southampton selling a whole (unused) kit for just £30! So I pinged him a message and he said it was still available and I could pick it up in a couple of hours
It would only take me half an hour to get there, so I gave the bike a quick wash, then went out for a few miles of riding before picking it up (and grabbing a picture of my old University in the hope that that would more or less satisfy the current Bike Picture challenge...)
After I'd collected it, I decided to get a few more miles in so headed up towards one of my favourite routes, along the Morestead road, then back along the A272 and A32, before heading down the B2150 and cutting down through World's End.
It was a nice ride, but the only problem was that, although I'd only got caught in a little shower earlier, elsewhere it had bucketed down and there were big puddles and, in a couple of places, veritable floods!
So by the time I got back home, I had to wash the bike off again because it was filthy
Anyway, after that, I got the new RMV working and I don't have to use a rag and some old oil to lube the chain every time I go out now