I'm gonna try to make this short as I'm sitying in a hotel room on my tablet. Heading to Sturgis and I am having transmission fluid migrating to the engine case. Primary fluid level is bang on but my crank case is gaining fluid while the gear box is losing it. Stopped st a dealer 2 hours out of town and lost about 10 oz. They called tech support who advised them to correct fluid levels and put dye in it and have me stop at the next dealer and have them check it again. I'm sitting in Great Falls, Mt waiting for the dealer to open and see what they say. Anybody have any ideas or experience trans fluid migrating to the engine oil. I may need to make a decision here soon on whether to continue or head back home. Thoughts.?

 

 

 

 

Update.... Well the dealer in Great Falls wasn't much help, kinda piissed me off actually. They knew we were coming the day before with dye in the transmission and they didn't have a black light and claimed that they couldn't get one once we got there. Anyway that's another story. The bike as suspected, lost another 8 oz this time with the engine oil level gaining fluid so I decide to cut my loses and head home before I got too far. We again confirmed that the primary oil level is bang on. I didn't want to spend hours every day at a Harley dealer having the correct the fluid levels every day, and we all know how busy Rapid City Harley is during rally So we corrected the levels and limped it 5 hours home. Gonna regroup, drop it off at the dealer on Tuesday and head to Vegas. Reading the forums, I never came across a migration for trans to crankcase so I will keep ya'll up to dated when I here from the dealer probably later in the week.

 

Feel for ya gunnar. Trans oil migrating to the engine is a new one to me. Seems there would have to be a casting problem or a crack in the engine oil reservoir seperating the reservoir from the trans.

Good luck and please keep us posted. Curious how this turns out.

 

That's the absolute BEST advice for dealing with a problematic M8 right there!

 

That's funny. When I stopped there earlier last week they acted clueless about my clutch switch problem.

 

May not need a tranny replacement. The drain passage for the tranny is a port that passes through the tranny to the oil pan. The the pan gasket has a location for it and it may have simply been damaged on install.

 

Just a typical H-D dealer. They can't help themselves. If they weren't totally clueless hacks and BS artists, they'd be in a different, less bottom-feeding line of work.