swimmer

FWIW, I am still running the 20/3 setting. Looked at my chain pretty closely this weekend as I had the rear wheel off to get a new tire mounted. The rollers and o-rings still look wet and the side plates dry. The chain guard still is getting some accumulation on it. The tire I pulled off did not have any signs of fling-off save for a few specs here and there.

So I've gone through about 2 tanks with the 20/3 setting on the pro-oiler. The side plates of the chain are pretty much dry but the o-rings and rollers still look a little wet. The chain seems a little loud but I think that is because the previous owner did not maintain well for the 8800 miles before I got it. I am definitely not getting any fling off onto the tire. This seems like a pretty good setting. If anything I might go up to 20/4 but I am going to leave it as is for a while.

I think if the VFR had a normal type of rear sprocket with a large face on it and not the little ridge that the nozzle has to sit on it would work better and more oil would get on the o-rings and less on the rollers.

Swimmer, how many miles have you put on your VFR with the Pro-Oiler, so far? I'm curious to know how quickly you accumulated that oil on your tire. And I'll be interested to hear your results as you go, please do share!

elizilla, The only time I've gotten any significant oil on my tire was on my 650R when I had the setting rich and, to make matters worse. I was on a road trip which mean higher speeds so more frequent oiling. I've only had the pro-oiler installed on my vfr for about a month. Last weekend I washed off the built up oil around the front sprocket (where my dark oil drips were coming from) and put a setting of schedule 20/3 and am going to see how that works out. Even though I ride every day it may take another week to see how that is working out.

Other than some odd drop if you are getting streaks of oil on your tire you've got too much oil coming out. If you ride a lot on the highway it can be good to back off the flow as well since you are going to get more oil coming out due to more frequent triggers.

No way would I have another motorcycle without a pro-oiler - I just need to get this one tuned right for me and all will be well. At that point I'll probably replace the chain since I don't think the previous owner took good care of it.

PM me if you have any other questions as I might forget to check this post.

I ran the pro-oiler on my Kaw 650R for about 18k miles. In that time I never had to adjust the chain nor clean it. I never had any dripping from it either nor did I get oil on the tire unless I was running it too rich. I've now put the pro-oiler on my VFR. A couple of days ago I notice some spots where the oil from the chain had dripped. Very black as you say you see and it was coming from near the front sprocket where the oil was being flung onto the cover. This means too much oil obviously. I was running schedule 18 setting 2. Today I changed to schedule 20 setting 3. I'll see how this works. The chain should never look wet, just clean. I don't see oil on the tire though. The pro-oiler is the best but I think the suggested settings are too rich.