I have a Suzuki engine in a non OEM frame with this serial number
DR400-1016XX. How do I find out what year it is so I can order an oil
filter? I can't find a web site that helps. Thanks.

flattrack38 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have a Suzuki engine in a non OEM frame with this serial number
> DR400-1016XX. How do I find out what year it is so I can order an oil
> filter? I can't find a web site that helps. Thanks.

You don't need to find the year - all DR400s use the same oil filter.

I think a very, very few really early DRs used a replaceable canister
type (BICBW), but it's unlikely to be a problem.


--
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Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
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On Dec 27, 1:46*am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:
> flattrack38 <flattrac...@mailinator.com> wrote:
> > I have a Suzuki engine in a non OEM frame with this serial number
> > DR400-1016XX. How do I find out what year it is so I can order an oil
> > filter? I can't find a web site that helps. Thanks.
>
> You don't need to find the year - all DR400s use the same oil filter.
>
> I think a very, very few really early DRs used a replaceable canister
> type (BICBW), but it's unlikely to be a problem.
>

What Mr. Murray said...also be glad it isn't something like the DR370
motor. That is an internal 2 stage fine mesh metal permanent filter
that will tear if the resident mice in your garage look at it funny
(the filter).

S'mee <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Dec 27, 1:46 am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
> Gentleman) wrote:
> > flattrack38 <flattrac...@mailinator.com> wrote:
> > > I have a Suzuki engine in a non OEM frame with this serial number
> > > DR400-1016XX. How do I find out what year it is so I can order an oil
> > > filter? I can't find a web site that helps. Thanks.
> >
> > You don't need to find the year - all DR400s use the same oil filter.
> >
> > I think a very, very few really early DRs used a replaceable canister
> > type (BICBW), but it's unlikely to be a problem.
> >
>
> What Mr. Murray said...also be glad it isn't something like the DR370
> motor. That is an internal 2 stage fine mesh metal permanent filter
> that will tear if the resident mice in your garage look at it funny
> (the filter).

Ah. That's what I was thinking of, so thanks for confirming it. I had a
vague memory that the early DR/SP370 (which evolved into the DR400) used
that system. Like the old Yamaha XS650.


--
BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple
Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
chateau dot murray at idnet dot com

"The Older Gentleman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1jbeazb.94zsjpp59ptuN%totallydeadmailbox@yaho o.co.uk...
> S'mee <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> What Mr. Murray said...also be glad it isn't something like the DR370
>> motor. That is an internal 2 stage fine mesh metal permanent filter
>> that will tear if the resident mice in your garage look at it funny
>> (the filter).
>
> Ah. That's what I was thinking of, so thanks for confirming it. I had a
> vague memory that the early DR/SP370 (which evolved into the DR400) used
> that system. Like the old Yamaha XS650.

Didn't that get sorted when the XS2 got transformed into the XS650?

If not, they certainly missed a trick.


--
Dave
ex Motorcycle Maintenance Workshop
http://tinyurl.com/4mhaw

Dave Emerson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> "The Older Gentleman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1jbeazb.94zsjpp59ptuN%totallydeadmailbox@yaho o.co.uk...
> > S'mee <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >> What Mr. Murray said...also be glad it isn't something like the DR370
> >> motor. That is an internal 2 stage fine mesh metal permanent filter
> >> that will tear if the resident mice in your garage look at it funny
> >> (the filter).
> >
> > Ah. That's what I was thinking of, so thanks for confirming it. I had a
> > vague memory that the early DR/SP370 (which evolved into the DR400) used
> > that system. Like the old Yamaha XS650.
>
> Didn't that get sorted when the XS2 got transformed into the XS650?

Nope. They always had washable gauze oil filters - a small one behind a
circular plate on the clutch cover, and a bigger one in the sump. Thje
sump one *always* develops tears and holes.
>
> If not, they certainly missed a trick.

Yup

--
BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple
Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
chateau dot murray at idnet dot com

On Dec 27, 11:24*am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:
> S'mee <stevenkei...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 27, 1:46 am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
> > Gentleman) wrote:
> > > flattrack38 <flattrac...@mailinator.com> wrote:
> > > > I have a Suzuki engine in a non OEM frame with this serial number
> > > > DR400-1016XX. How do I find out what year it is so I can order an oil
> > > > filter? I can't find a web site that helps. Thanks.
>
> > > You don't need to find the year - all DR400s use the same oil filter.
>
> > > I think a very, very few really early DRs used a replaceable canister
> > > type (BICBW), but it's unlikely to be a problem.
>
> > What Mr. Murray said...also be glad it isn't something like the DR370
> > motor. That is an internal 2 stage fine mesh metal permanent filter
> > that will tear if the resident mice in your garage look at it funny
> > (the filter).
>
> Ah. That's what I was thinking of, so thanks for confirming it. I had a
> vague memory that the early DR/SP370 (which evolved into the DR400) used
> that system. Like the old Yamaha XS650.

You forget...I've a stock DR370 in the garage. IF I'd spring for all
new control cables and the clutch plates it would be ridable as long
as you like straight exhaust (which I do not) That part is going to be
a chore.

On Dec 27, 2:28*pm, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:

> Nope. They always had washable gauze oil filters - a small one behind a
> circular plate on the clutch cover, and a bigger one in the sump. Thje
> sump one *always* develops tears and holes.

BENEDICK
Gallants, I am not as I have been.
LEONATO
So say I methinks you are sadder.
CLAUDIO
I would hope he be in love with other than himself...
DON PEDRO
Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in
him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,
he wants money.
BENEDICK
I have the toothache.
DON PEDRO
Draw it.
BENEDICK
Hang it!
CLAUDIO
You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.
DON PEDRO
What! sigh for the toothache?
LEONATO
Where is but a humour or a worm.
BENEDICK
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has
it.
CLAUDIO
Yet say I, he is in love.
DON PEDRO
There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be
a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be
a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the
shape of two countries at once, as, a German from
the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from
the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy
to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no
fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.
CLAUDIO
If he be not in love with some woman, there is no
believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'
mornings; what should that bode?
DON PEDRO
Hath any man seen him at the barber's?
CLAUDIO
No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,
and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
stuffed tennis-balls.
LEONATO
Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.
DON PEDRO
Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him
out by that?
CLAUDIO
That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love.
DON PEDRO
The greatest note of it is his melancholy.
CLAUDIO
And when was he wont to wash his face?
DON PEDRO
Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear
what they say of him.
CLAUDIO
Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into
a lute-string and now governed by stops.
DON PEDRO
Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,
conclude he is in love.
CLAUDIO
Nay, but I know who loves him.
DON PEDRO
That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.
CLAUDIO
Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of
all, dies for him.
DON PEDRO
She shall be buried with her face upwards.
BENEDICK
Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old
signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight
or nine wise words to speak to you, which these
hobby-horses must not hear.
Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO

On Dec 28, 7:17*am, Gael <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO

Yep using a non sequiter to PROVE you know nothing except your own
perversion. How original, how childish...much what we've come to
expect from the Chickenhawk know as Krusty/gael etc etc. the man with
1,000,000 fathers all of them nameless.

On Dec 28, 8:23*am, "S'mee" <stevenkei...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 7:17*am, Gael <breoganmacbr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO
>
> Yep using a non sequiter to PROVE you know nothing except your own
> perversion.

My allusion totally whooshed over your head, didn't it?

Why can't you and Neil Murray just flush down the toilet, like normal
turds?