oil burning issues....HELP!!
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oil burning issues....HELP!!
ok i'm going on this trip in less than 5 days and had a really F'D up thing happen tonight.
background: My front cylender was burning oil, I replaced the valve seals and put around 500 miles on the bike...no issues no oil burning. Before I leave for my trip i figure i'll change the oil filter and top off oil (I'm running 15w50 mobil 1)
since then the bike has started leaking oil out of the A/C breather and burning off oil out of the front cylender again (tonight was the first time i noticed it was burning oil...I only noticed it once or twice on downshift). Here is where it gets real wierd for me...I pull up to a light sitting at idle and smoke (white smoke) just starts billowing out of my front exhaust pipe! FREAKIN ME OUT!! I go another 4 miles and pull over....can't get one puff of smoke out of the pipe! not at idle, not when I blip the throttle, not when I bring it to high rpm's then let off suddenly...NOTHING!!! WTF could have caused this? I'm going to try and put at least 100 more miles on it before the trip but now I'm worried I might get stranded out in the middle of nowhere ... HELP!!
background: My front cylender was burning oil, I replaced the valve seals and put around 500 miles on the bike...no issues no oil burning. Before I leave for my trip i figure i'll change the oil filter and top off oil (I'm running 15w50 mobil 1)
since then the bike has started leaking oil out of the A/C breather and burning off oil out of the front cylender again (tonight was the first time i noticed it was burning oil...I only noticed it once or twice on downshift). Here is where it gets real wierd for me...I pull up to a light sitting at idle and smoke (white smoke) just starts billowing out of my front exhaust pipe! FREAKIN ME OUT!! I go another 4 miles and pull over....can't get one puff of smoke out of the pipe! not at idle, not when I blip the throttle, not when I bring it to high rpm's then let off suddenly...NOTHING!!! WTF could have caused this? I'm going to try and put at least 100 more miles on it before the trip but now I'm worried I might get stranded out in the middle of nowhere ... HELP!!
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How is the crankcase vented?
On stock bikes, I hear if you overfill the oil it gets sucked into the air cleaner, and fast stops might slosh more oil in.
Your bike is hardly stock, so who knows, and I got to say I think you are crazy to even go 100 miles on it.
Brett
On stock bikes, I hear if you overfill the oil it gets sucked into the air cleaner, and fast stops might slosh more oil in.
Your bike is hardly stock, so who knows, and I got to say I think you are crazy to even go 100 miles on it.
Brett
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. definetly higher than that...it seems to be slef regulating haha. When it didn't burn any oil it was about 3/4 on the dipstick and I had to go and "fix" that by toping it off and now i'm having the issues...this might just be it
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The oil filter is not going to have anything to do with it, and yes, fram was the most crappy filter you could buy last I looked.I bet it has something to do with over filling the oil, the oil tank is vented, to something, they cant dump it on the ground, so it must go into the motor.Stop and the oil sloshes forward, into the motor.Oil also expands some with heat, gets thinner and sloshes/flows better...Burning oil is not a big deal, but will build up carbon on the pistons and crust up the sparkplugs...Brett
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OS...did you happen to notice if your umbrella gasket was in place and over the breather bolt? There is 2 places they can be, but you only use 1 and it goes in the lowest hole. (right over the breather).
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