| Author | Message | ||
     Ingemar |
If you know anything about changing transmission oil and how the old stuff should look when you drain it, please look at the pictures I linked to. I linked to it because I wanted them retain the detail. They're about 700kb each. Look how dark it is; almost pitch black http://www.buelltiful.com/uploads/oil1.jpg Some debris zoomed in http://www.buelltiful.com/uploads/oil2.jpg The stone didn't come out of it; I needed it for the autofocus http://www.buelltiful.com/uploads/oil3.jpg Macro close up http://www.buelltiful.com/uploads/oil4.jpg That little stone is roughly 2/5 inch square. Honestly this scared the •••• outta me. I checked the last bill and they did bill me for tranny oil.  I don't have a picture of it, but the motor oil that came out was changed at the same service and had a nice gold tan, and no debris. The plug was almost clean. Ingemar. [edit] At 3000 kays the dealer did a service. I changed it today at 6000. The plug for the tranny was about three times it's original size 'cos of the fur. [/edit] edited by ingemar on May 28, 2004 | ||
| Smadd |
Ingemar... IMHO... I believe you're likely to find some "debris" in the primary simply due to "the nature of the beast". You probably found metallic bits on the the magnetic drain plug as well, right? With the length of chain, rows, differences in tightness along the run, etc.... well... I don't think what you found is abnormal. When my Buell (much older one) was new, I found quite a bit in the primary too... and it lessened as the miles wore on. Just make sure the primary is adjusted properly (check along several spots throughout the entire run)and certainly not too tight. As for the motor oil... you don't want to find anything in that or you should be worried! Steve | ||
| Reepicheep |
--shrug-- If that stuff came out of my tranny, I would not be at all alarmed... Especially on a newer bike. Remember your clutch is in that same stuff, so there is a part in there that is designed to wear out and shed stuff. | ||
| Smadd |
P.S. What image processor did you use to get that beautiful *big* photo in your profile??! | ||
| Smadd |
Ah yes... I also second what Reep said! Not to worry... enjoy!! | ||
| Ingemar |
Pfew! I feel better already. If anyone else has an opinion please share. Smadd: All I did to that picture was scale it down using PSP8 to fit on the screen. It was taken on macro the day I picked her up. It was raining. The oil pictures are actually taken with the same camera but it was very hard to have it focus correctly; it has auto focus only. | ||
| Unpaved313 |
Ingemar; What you're looking at is normal. You'll find some metallic content in any motorcycle that has a wet clutch design. I certainly wouldn't be alarmed if it was my bike (unless there wasn't any of this in there) so just ride it and have fun. Remember---extremely small pieces of metallic stuff, good. Metal chunks, bad. Big smile knowing your XB is OK just before a holiday weekend? Very Good. | ||
| Bomber |
another don't sweat it from this precinct . . . . . clutch, new primary chain, not a problem . . . . . | ||
| Lovematt |
Regarding the question about the "big" picture... If you make the resolution of the image set to 72 DPI, that is all that is needed for viewing on screen...it also makes the file much smaller. Basically file sizes come from three things: Number of Pixels (i.e. 800 X 600) Number of Colors (i.e. 16 Million) DPI (i.e. 300 DPI) If you lower the numbers on any combination of these, the file size goes down. I suggest at least "High Color" or "16 Bit Color" and 72 DPI for viewing on screen only. However these images won't print out very well or will be really small. Unfortunately I can't say exactly where these settings are in your image editing program but look for things like "resolution", "image properties", or "DPI" in the help system to get started. | ||
| Henrik |
If you keep the image size down so the width is no more than 500 pixels, we avoid the "side scrolling" issue that occasionally pops up on the Badweb pages.  Henrik | ||
| Smadd |
Hmmmmmmm... my brain just has a hard time figuring out resolution, dpi, and so forth. And I've read about it... several times... just never sinks in. But I'm tryin'! Maybe it's because I don't have a "mathmatical" mind? I probably have all the necessary tools... Photoshop..... Irfanview, etc... just need to learn how to use them. I think I'm getting closer with my new profile pic... although I'm seeing a lot of "blotchiness" in the red. Thanks for the tips... I'll continue to work on it. Steve edited by smadd on May 29, 2004 | ||
| Smadd |
Ah yes! I've got it... thanks for the help, guys. I did discover one major problem not related to my image processing techniques... Living *way out* in the country... I only have (very slow) dialup connections available to me... so I use a "web accelerator". Well... the accelerator was also compressing data on the upload... really screwing up my pics! Once I resized according to your instructions and disabled the accelerator on the upload, it worked great!! Blake... sorry 'bout hijacking this thread! Steve | ||
| Smadd |
OR -------- Was I simply viewing my freshly uploaded profile pic in the compressed "accelerator" mode???? Bet so!!!! MAN... I'm extra stupid this morning!!! LOL... Sun's out... I'm gonna go out and visit my Buell. Steve | ||
| Lovematt |
Smadd, I believe ou mean that you and your Buell need to go out and visit...somewhere. I know I like going out on a ride without any plan whatsoever and seeing where I end up! Take care brudda | ||
| Reepicheep |
smadd... more then likely your accelerator does not compress on upload (for lots of technical reasons you will be happier not knowing). It was probably just butchering the viewed (intact) picture. A heavily optimized photo will look terrible if it is heavily optimized again. As for getting pictures to fit, start by just resizing it.... Only worry about horizontal. The typical computer screen is 1024 dots across, though some still suffer under 800 dots across screens. A few hardy souls are stuck with 640 across, but they are screwed anyway, so we ignore them. So resize your picture to 400 or 640 dots (pixels) across first. Then hit it with a good jpeg optimizer and lower the "quality" (which makes the jpeg compression rules more aggressive) until you get the size you want. Adobe Photoshop Elements has a nice "save for web" feature that allows you to mess with this stuff, but any image processing package should do it. Xat comes highly recommended here, and looks to do a nice job, but I never tried it. edited by reepicheep on May 29, 2004 |
