Burnin' earl

[TEXREX02]

One quart per 750 miles sounds way excessive to me. MIne uses about 1/2 a quart every 4-5K miles.

How much of this is related to rpm?

ES rally was up and down the mountain twisties at 7-10K with a few trips to the limiter on the valley floor. Texas Hill Country is miles of sweepers at 7K with a good dose of of redline action as well. Most of the first 7500 miles on my bike was commuting short distance with an occasional weekend in the mountains of the Northeast.

[mbleft]

I rarely hit redline, and it's only hit the limiter maybe twice since I've had it - 3 1/2 years.

[Mojo Risin']

How much of this is related to rpm?

ES rally was up and down the mountain twisties at 7-10K with a few trips to the limiter on the valley floor. Texas Hill Country is miles of sweepers at 7K with a good dose of of redline action as well. Most of the first 7500 miles on my bike was commuting short distance with an occasional weekend in the mountains of the Northeast.

I get the same thing you did when riding in the upper RPMS. I think a lot of it goes out the engine breather when running at the upper RPMS.

[btl68]

When I bought my 2002 with 30k on it from a member, it was leaking out the VCG and all 4 spark plug wells were full of oil.

The 2005 that I had bought new had the same VC and spark plug well gaskets in it until 60k and 4 valve checks. I finally replaced them because they were starting to leak.

Eventually, they will leak.

[beantown]

BTW, 6 oz thru 800 miles is only a quart every 4,266 miles.
Factory spec is a quart every 750 miles.

Then you need to re-read every valve cover gasket thread, and edited them to reflect the correct information. You have continually thrown the "you need valve cover gaskets" at members EVERY time someone mentions oil use or a vale adjust. Even thou Kawasaki CLEARLY states to reuse the gaskets in the manual! And go look at how many Kawasaki dual overhead cam configured bikes use the SAME type gasket setup. Guess what, Kawasaki says to REUSE the gaskets on the other models also!

You are the ONLY one on this board, whom has EVER posted about losing all your oil, from the spark plug gasket incident. There has never been any mention of this happening to ANYONE but you Pete that I can remember. Have I seen them leak? Yes, only because they were not correctly centered, when the valve cover was re-installed. Bump one off center of the plug hole just a tad when ya put the valve cover back on and it will leak. Don't torque the Valve cover correctly and they can leak. If this is what happened to you at Willow you wouldn't admit it anyway. Your habitual up selling, in every thread you post in, over takes your mind, more often than not. Your chicken little sky is falling crap has gotten old.

I have had my valve cover off six times. My ZRX has over 38,000 miles on it. I have NEVER replaced the valve cover gasket, valve cover bolt washers/gaskets or the figure eight spark plug gaskets. The bike regularly see double over the speed limit, extended high revs, twisty mountain road riding. Extended 90 mile an hour highway runs. Wheelies on a regular basis. Practice launches for 1/4 mile racing. It has ZZR pistons, no base gasket and ZZR cams. Not to mention starting and riding the dang thing from 28 to 100 degrees outside temp. AGAIN, never have I had the spark plug OR the valve cover gaskets leak, let alone blow out and lose all my oil.

And here TexRex and RadioDan, both state that they had some fun romping on their Rexs. They used a little oil, and whats the first thing you say Pete? "CHANGE THE GASKETS" When the whole time they were within the manufactures spec on oil use.

[KWICK]

You do know Kawasaki has a recall for ZX6 vc gaskets, and now only sells them as a "kit". They leaked all over the front of the motor.

I do service work on ZRXs and 2 out of 3 have leaks around the perimeter or the plug wells. When you remove the cover, you can see the trail of carbon down the dowel pin and the small circle will be hard or deformed.

Anyway, low-mile ZRXs do NOT use oil, unless something is wrong. Most times that something is the valve cover gasket set. Would you rather tell someone they need rings and a valve job? Seriously, the valvecover gaskets do go bad from age and heat. ZRXs are now legal for Vintage roadracing...they are THAT old.

Recommend whatever you want. I will not remove a valvecover without changing the set.

[beantown]

You do know Kawasaki has a recall for ZX6 vc gaskets, and now only sells them as a "kit". They leaked all over the front of the motor.

I do service work on ZRXs and 2 out of 3 have leaks around the perimeter or the plug wells. When you remove the cover, you can see the trail of carbon down the dowel pin and the small circle will be hard or deformed.

Anyway, low-mile ZRXs do NOT use oil, unless something is wrong. Most times that something is the valve cover gasket set. Would you rather tell someone they need rings and a valve job? Seriously, the valvecover gaskets do go bad from age and heat. ZRXs are now legal for Vintage roadracing...they are old.

Maybe your 99 qualifies for vintage, my 04 sure doesn't. And ANY gasket can go bad from age and heat. Are you seriously advocating changing the entire Valve cover gasket set after the first valve job? If you are, you need to put down the B12 carb cleaner, you've had enough already.

[TEXREX02]

I get the same thing you did when riding in the upper RPMS. I think a lot of it goes out the engine breather when running at the upper RPMS.

Sure enough, when I pulled the side cover and looked, the inside was coated with oily grime. I haven't looked back there in years

[Perko]

I haven't used a new v/c gasket in years and have only fell six times because of it.......... none of them on the bike.

SS

[KWICK]

Whatever...do what you are comfortable doing. I wish you the best...

[punksman]

Whatever...do what you are comfortable doing. I wish you the best...

Hope nobody ever chaffes on me for advice i give on here,,,only tryin' to help..