New Biker needs HELP!!! w/ Blowing Oil
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New Biker needs HELP!!! w/ Blowing Oil
Please bare with me as I try to explain my situation. I have a 2001 Road King that I bought in July of 2004. It had 2300 miles when I purchased it. It now has 4300 miles. last week I went on my first long road trip. Traveled approximately 400 miles through all kinds of weather without any problems. On the way back home had beautiful weather. The other riders who were considerably more experienced felt really frisky and were in a hurry to get home. As we were about five miles from our final destination traveling on a major interstate I simply tried to keep up doing about 85 mps. Then one of the riders waived to me. I looked back and saw smoke coming from my bike. At no time did I hear or feel any problems with the bike. I immediately pulled over and shut off the engine. There was oil spray all over the back side of the motor, but only on the right side. Well when I got home I checked the extended warranty. Well it had expired four weeks earlier. So I trailered the bike to the house of a certified Harley mechanic. He said that he had seen this happen before. He said because of continual high revolutions it caused a "Oil Blowout". The bike has a R & N air filter. When the breather cover was removed according to him it had a considerable amount of oil in it. He advised that I clean the filter with a cleaning kit and run the bike at regular speed to see if the oil spraying stopped.
Well my question is where did the oil come from and was anything stressed because of this situation. I do know that the oil is cooled from one jar to the other by way of a steel tube that sits just behind the air filter. There is a rubber line just below this steel line. I think that it is related to this in some way, but I don't know how.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
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Dadbarnit
Well my question is where did the oil come from and was anything stressed because of this situation. I do know that the oil is cooled from one jar to the other by way of a steel tube that sits just behind the air filter. There is a rubber line just below this steel line. I think that it is related to this in some way, but I don't know how.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks
Dadbarnit
RE: New Biker needs HELP!!! w/ Blowing Oil
Happens to me all the time under riding conditions as you explained. Its blow by from the crankcase as it cant scavenge it out quick enough. I put on a Ness Big SUcker Air Cleaner which routes most of it back into the intake, did not eliminate it but reduced it greatly.
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As we were about five miles from our final destination traveling on a major interstate I simply tried to keep up doing about 85 mps.
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Dadbarnit
As we were about five miles from our final destination traveling on a major interstate I simply tried to keep up doing about 85 mps.
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Dadbarnit
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One of these days I am going to address my oil spray by installing The Cure Crankcase Vent Plus. The new Plus model has a check valve included...
http://www.directparts.com/ccp/cureventplus.htm
http://www.directparts.com/ccp/cureventplus.htm
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if I had a problem with oil leaking id dam sure contact a harley dealer an talk direcly to the service man im sure hes ran across that problem with another bike sometime
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Danny,
Homer is correct. It happens all the time. I can't remember the last time I was at the dealership when they weren't attempting to fix the same problem on some poor souls bike.
One thing that could cause it is if the oil is just a little too full. The other is the overflow Homer was talking about. Check with your dealer about this. It is not a big problem and you didn't hurt your bike. Ride it normal for awhile to see if it does it againl, then crank er up and see if you can make it do it again or just have the dealer fix whatever they thing is causing it.
This happens alot on big inch motors too. I can see why this would freak you out being new to Harleys but like I said....Don't worry.
Terry
Homer is correct. It happens all the time. I can't remember the last time I was at the dealership when they weren't attempting to fix the same problem on some poor souls bike.
One thing that could cause it is if the oil is just a little too full. The other is the overflow Homer was talking about. Check with your dealer about this. It is not a big problem and you didn't hurt your bike. Ride it normal for awhile to see if it does it againl, then crank er up and see if you can make it do it again or just have the dealer fix whatever they thing is causing it.
This happens alot on big inch motors too. I can see why this would freak you out being new to Harleys but like I said....Don't worry.
Terry
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RE: New Biker needs HELP!!! w/ Blowing Oil
i rerouted mine under the bike, that way it doesnt mess up the oil filter, when i ride it hard for 40 - 50 miles i may have a dime sized drip when i park it.