Oil pump

[trailanywhere]

Hi, my sons MIKUNI E2 oil pump is leaking at 1700 km on a Aprilia R X 50 04 im told buy a new 1 £67.00 the quad ring is only worth 50p its a joke its easy to fix, ive been on mikuni web site ,no good ,Apilia say new pump, so ive tryed a seal company B S L oxford they give me 5 they were .3 mm to small so there going to make a batch of 5/10 on a cnc {hope they work} less than £10.00 if possible.Has any one else had this problem? Can any one HELP! ? Any other idaes?
Hope to hear soon thanks G. M.

[D-Rider]

Hi GM - welcome.

Good to hear that yo've probably got this sorted. Unfortunately not so many Aprilia strokers on here so you may not get so many direct answers.
My son's got an Aprilia scooter that I try to keep running (but having always run 4-strokes myself I'm not so sure on the oil pump side of things - and I know my son's scooter is chucking in too much oil as it fouls plugs frequently).

Anyway, glad to have you with us

[paddyz1]

Hi GM - welcome.

Good to hear that yo've probably got this sorted. Unfortunately not so many Aprilia strokers on here so you may not get so many direct answers.
My son's got an Aprilia scooter that I try to keep running (but having always run 4-strokes myself I'm not so sure on the oil pump side of things - and I know my son's scooter is chucking in too much oil as it fouls plugs frequently).

Anyway, glad to have you with us

Run a hotter plug

[D-Rider]

Hi GM - welcome.

Good to hear that yo've probably got this sorted. Unfortunately not so many Aprilia strokers on here so you may not get so many direct answers.
My son's got an Aprilia scooter that I try to keep running (but having always run 4-strokes myself I'm not so sure on the oil pump side of things - and I know my son's scooter is chucking in too much oil as it fouls plugs frequently).

Anyway, glad to have you with us

Run a hotter plug

Yeah - I should give that a go before resorting to more drastic measures. Cheers

[trailanywhere]

Well i got let down on my seals the company said there manufactures declined i thought it seemed to good to be true why do they bother saying yes so i guess we will have to buy a flipin pump Any one else id be glad to hear from.

[Gio]

Is the bike worth a new pump?

By that I mean will it last, or will it be something that needs changing every year

[Samray]

Must be plenty in the scrappys considering the frequency they get binned?

[Pierre]

ok i could be miles off a 2stroke target here, but cant you block off the pump and go to premix?