Oil Consumption Interesting reading

[darkember 0]

Just found this old thread>

http://www.suzukiownersclub.co.uk/showthread.php/31806-Bandit-12-oil-consumption

It relates to my bike since I noticed I had used about 50ml after that 360 mile trip last weekend. If the 300ml rule applies I can do about 2000 miles from F - L. That suits me fine plus I did give the old girl a hard time to boot.

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

good read I have now done 23,000 miles on my Mk1 b12 and it dont use any oil at all

[haveugot1 0]

Interesting but luckily also my mk1 b12 doesn't use any oil either. Its done 14000mls and I think I better bet the valve clearances done.

[trebor4460 0]

Yep, a few years ago when the mrk 2 came out quite a few suffered from excessive oil usage, I think it could be fixed underline warenty not sure if it was down to dodgy or rings on the pistons.
My mrk1 goes from oil change to oil change without a top up.

[flange 0]

Faulty batch of pistons .The oil holes where over size

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

@flange wrote:

Faulty batch of pistons .The oil holes where over size

so are some still riding around with them in ?

[flange 0]

They must be.Some have more dodgy holes than others.They were made by ART if i remember right.You'd think someone would of noticed before they were all fitted

[Squarrow 0]

Interesting topic this, my bike never used any oil & never smoked. Currently it has 44000kms on it & it just started running extremely rough below 4-5k rpms, it ran as though you were riding your bike with the choke pulled out if you know what I mean. Anyway, after changing the FPR, injectors, fuel pump, spark plugs..basically anything you could think of that would make any motor run rough was changed. After 4-5 rpm the beast would clear out & run like a bat out of hell.... then about 2 months ago I stripped the head off only to find ...... I can't explain it, have a look at the pic below & see if you can figure it out ......

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And like I mentioned before, I was still using the bike with this damage for a good couple of months, the pictues I posted earlier with me at the track was while the bike was running with this... and also, no oil usage, no smoke....I'm still trying to figure out what happened

[Squarrow 0]

Oh I forgot to mention that the piece that's missing out of the bore.. is no where to be found ! My bike basically showed me

[dick65 0]

my ace doesnt use oil between changes but heard some do,mind you it does 80 at 4000 revs so im not thrashing her

[darkember 0]

Ok just found out that 1 quart of oil equates to 1.13 litres therefore if I do the math.

I used approx 75ml during that 360 mile round trip of hard riding. This would mean I would be using less that a quart over a 5000 mile period which is well within the realms of acceptability.

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

@darkember wrote:

Ok just found out that 1 quart of oil equates to 1.13 litres therefore if I do the math.

I used approx 75ml during that 360 mile round trip of hard riding. This would mean I would be using less that a quart over a 5000 mile period which is well within the realms of acceptability.

nice 1 then

[flange 0]

@Squarrow wrote:

Interesting topic this, my bike never used any oil & never smoked. Currently it has 44000kms on it & it just started running extremely rough below 4-5k rpms, it ran as though you were riding your bike with the choke pulled out if you know what I mean. Anyway, after changing the FPR, injectors, fuel pump, spark plugs..basically anything you could think of that would make any motor run rough was changed. After 4-5 rpm the beast would clear out & run like a bat out of hell.... then about 2 months ago I stripped the head off only to find ...... I can't explain it, have a look at the pic below & see if you can figure it out ......

[img][/img]

And like I mentioned before, I was still using the bike with this damage for a good couple of months, the pictues I posted earlier with me at the track was while the bike was running with this... and also, no oil usage, no smoke....I'm still trying to figure out what happened

Thats a water cooler.Your blade?

[trebor4460 0]

@darkember wrote:

Ok just found out that 1 quart of oil equates to 1.13 litres therefore if I do the math.

I used approx 75ml during that 360 mile round trip of hard riding. This would mean I would be using less that a quart over a 5000 mile period which is well within the realms of acceptability.

Agree, a quart in that milage is fine.

[Squarrow 0]

@flange wrote:

@Squarrow wrote:

Interesting topic this, my bike never used any oil & never smoked. Currently it has 44000kms on it & it just started running extremely rough below 4-5k rpms, it ran as though you were riding your bike with the choke pulled out if you know what I mean. Anyway, after changing the FPR, injectors, fuel pump, spark plugs..basically anything you could think of that would make any motor run rough was changed. After 4-5 rpm the beast would clear out & run like a bat out of hell.... then about 2 months ago I stripped the head off only to find ...... I can't explain it, have a look at the pic below & see if you can figure it out ......

[img][/img]

And like I mentioned before, I was still using the bike with this damage for a good couple of months, the pictues I posted earlier with me at the track was while the bike was running with this... and also, no oil usage, no smoke....I'm still trying to figure out what happened

Thats a water cooler.Your blade?

Yep it is....