ok so i changed the gasket on my front rocker box the other day. all was going fine until this morning when i noticed a tiny bit of oil above my skull timer cover. not a problem cos iv heard that sometimes happens with open air filters.
but when i got home this is what i found. i believe its coming from the air filter via the breather bolt.
this cant be normal can it?

 

what year and how many miles? What have you got for breather bolts?

My '06 got about that bad. I replaced the umbrella valve filter things (whatever they call them) in the rocker boxes. That helped some. Eventually I went with a banjo bolt/ catch can system.

Hmm. Was it not doing this before you had the rocker box open? Any chance you did something wrong with the valve/filter thing?

 

Check your oil level, if its overfilled this can happen.

 

+1 - The oil level on the dipstick should not be any more than 1/2 way between the Add and Full marks, with the motor warm and the bike on the jiffy stand.

 

what they said up there first - check the oil levels -

expect to see on/from the bike if it were run
with umbrella valves that don't seat,bad, or no umbrella valves at all.

with bad/no valves, the engine will suck outside air back into the crank.
the heat of the engine, the motor oil, the outside air and the humitidy in that air will casue the oil to FOAM UP and will be expelled out threw the breathers
it will also look foamy

again it may be your oil levels - i have never seen oil leak that much -
unless u have waaaaaay tooo much oil in there..

 

Replying to this on my phone so excuse any mistake or threads I havnt read correctly.

It can't be the oils levels. It wasn't doing this before.
It's a 2011 iron with 9600 miles.
The oil levels have been fine for the past 4600 miles so it can't see the oils levels rising all of a sudden.
Seen something about the oil gettin foamy.
It didn't look foamy. Just plain oil

 

i only know of those 2 reasons why it would pour out of the breathers like that

 

Did you recheck the gasket on your front rocker box?

 

Seems a good place to look at this point, if it did not puke before, and you have not changed or added oil.

John

 

the breather bolt feeds any "drips" of oil back into the air filter via a rubber hose.
i havnt added or changed the oil.

its not leaking from the gasket, i just double checked.
there oil driping from the bottom of the airfilter, so its almost definitely cominf from there.
the only thing i think it could be in the "sponge thing" in the housing. i had to remove this when i changed the gasket. i put it back on but i guess theres a chance that i didnt put it on correctly, i cant see how because it seems just a simple "push it down" type of thing.
i guess il open it up later or tomorrow and double check it