Just bought an old motorcycle?

[Greybeard]

Clean the sludge trap.

[muskrat]

Yes, both mine were like that when they arrived.
Cheers

[a10 gf]

Same here, small hole in the middle, rest of the trap filled up with hard cement-like stuff.
But at least, the trap system seems to work as intended :O)

[Sluggo]

Agreed (And "Liked")  Drives me batty seeing people haul out an old barn find and then thunder off into the sunset and blindly rev the snot out of this poor suffering machinery.

Many times, peoples eyes glaze over when you try to warn them or the old proverbial shrug "Im sure it will be okay"

" What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."

[coater87]

 Or the guy I talked to last year who inherited an A65 and informed me that spraying a can of brake clean into the oil hole was "just as good" as removing the plugs and cleaning the trap.

 I wonder how thats working out for him.

 Lee

[Topdad]

I suspect with a loud bang and conrods exiting stage left !!