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Excess oil coming out of breather assembly

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Old 04-27-2024, 09:24 PM
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Default Excess oil coming out of breather assembly

Last year I put a breather bypass on my 2013 EGlide. I did this because I had started getting oil dripping onto the inside of the air cleaner cover and then onto the engine above the cam chest cover. The bypass works as it should thank to advice from this site but I think the amount of bypass oil is excessive. My initial thought is I need to replace the breather assembly up by the rocker arms. Is this reasonable? What else could cause this? The bike is 11 years old and has just turned 50000 miles. I don't ride it hard, mostly day runs and road trips of 5 to 10 days. Other than this issue it runs great.
 
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First take the bike out and run it hard.
 
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Old 04-28-2024, 03:22 PM
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those seals do not last forever. once they start getting hard, you start getting two way flow which leads to a milky appearance.
it is like??
how long will a condom
 
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Thanks Busert. That's what 's happening
 
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