Getting the Bad Oil out....

[Stig / Major Tom]

699 miles since the last oil change on my LIKE200i. I average between 600 > 800 miles between changes. Using 5W-40 synthetic. Airfilter looks new after 1,000's of miles - but oil gets nice and dark.





I really like these Toyota washers - Teflon coated aluminum....fit perfectly. (cheap on eBay or Amazon)
(win a donut if you can spot the problem w/this pic)

Stig
I know - a lot of folks think I'm nuts for changing the LIKE's oil so often. I'm OK with that.

[tortoise]

the problem w/this pic

Not a 6-point socket . . which enhances the odds of "rounding" the oil drain bolt heads.

[xsel777]

I don't think you nuts at all.
OK I said that of loud, but what I am thinking is something else altogether.....

I am also changing my oil more often now, at 3000km. Manual says 5000.
I am using the Uk hi-flo filter which is far more exorbitant than the black 'no name' that I find at other bike shops.
I am coming up the next oil change soon.




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[CROSSBOLT]

"Any oil better than no oil," and "Change too often better than not often enough." Quote by CROSSBOLT long before Kymco Forum existed......

Karl

[Stig / Major Tom]

Not a 6-point socket . . which enhances the odds of "rounding" the oil drain bolt heads.

Donut is in the mail!
Stig

[TroutBum]

I change my oil every 1,200 miles which approximates Kymco's suggested intervals for doing so. I've been told by others that I shouldn't waste my money and change out the oil every 3,000 miles. I'll stick to the Kymco manual thank you very much. It has worked for me and I see no reason to change. YMMV 

[Duddy03]

I don't think you nuts at all.
OK I said that of loud, but what I am thinking is something else altogether.....

I am also changing my oil more often now, at 3000km. Manual says 5000.
I am using the Uk hi-flo filter which is far more exorbitant than the black 'no name' that I find at other bike shops.
I am coming up the next oil change soon.

Six point wrenches and sockets are the best.  For xsel777, what is the UK Hi-Flo filter?  Recall, the Like has only a screen for oil filtration.  Filters and oil are my second business and passion!  With special oil, filters and oil analysis I had a car that went 170,000 miles and 9 1/2 years without an oil change!  I almost feel I can make any car last nearly forever.  The fuel injection is a leap into the 21st century;  the lack of an oil filter places a scooter in the mid-20th century.  I can't fault Stig or anyone for frequent oil changes.  At the moment, I'll do the same.  But we need an advance in technology to lift us out of the 1950s.  As NASA says, "Work the problem, people."  (I am.)   

[Stig / Major Tom]

Six point wrenches and sockets are the best.  For xsel777, what is the UK Hi-Flo filter?  Recall, the Like has only a screen for oil filtration.  Filters and oil are my second business and passion!  With special oil, filters and oil analysis I had a car that went 170,000 miles and 9 1/2 years without an oil change!  I almost feel I can make any car last nearly forever.  The fuel injection is a leap into the 21st century;  the lack of an oil filter places a scooter in the mid-20th century.  I can't fault Stig or anyone for frequent oil changes.  At the moment, I'll do the same.  But we need an advance in technology to lift us out of the 1950s.  As NASA says, "Work the problem, people."  (I am.)   

Houston here......
Stig had a Sears lawnmower, given used from his brother, that he used for 21 yrs - with never an oil change. No special oil or lab work. Drain bolt rounded and froze, so...
18th century servicing of a of a 20th ccentury machine.
Yes...he is also passionate (-ly hating lawn mowing) Craft was last sighted going into trash picker's Buick pick-up (!!)  late one evening...after wheel #3 broke out of the chassis. Mowing with a 3 wheel mower IS posssible...even a two wheel mower...but when you lose 3 wheels mowing will get, as Col. Hal More once said - "pretty sporty!".
Stig

[Duddy03]

Thanks for the story.  My family had a new 4X4 Chinese 3-cylinder diesel tractor that we bought at Rural King (a local farm implement store).  We used it at our woods but only occasionally.  It caused us lots of grief and eventually we sold it.  Then we inherited a '62 John Deere Model 1010 tractor but it got flooded out by a river and the dealer took it off our hands as scrap.  I want my KYMCO to last and last.  I hope it will last as long as your lawn mower and with the advice of this forum I can't help but "tweek" it every chance I get.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Thanks for the story.  My family had a new 4X4 Chinese 3-cylinder diesel tractor that we bought at Rural King (a local farm implement store).  We used it at our woods but only occasionally.  It caused us lots of grief and eventually we sold it.  Then we inherited a '62 John Deere Model 1010 tractor but it got flooded out by a river and the dealer took it off our hands as scrap.  I want my KYMCO to last and last.  I hope it will last as long as your lawn mower and with the fadvice of this forum I can't help but "tweek" it every chance I get.

They just opened a new Rural King store here.
Do they sell goats?.....now that my Sears mower is gone....
My daughter wants a duck...so we'll check it out.
Nice looking store.
Stig

[TroutBum]

Stig,

Do you happen to have the part number for those Toyota washers?