Splooge Oil in the Air Cleaner - Round 2
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Road Captain
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From: Mount Airy, MD
I'm sure they bolts to do that exist but I'd prefer not to go that route. If I did anything along those lines I would run them to a catch can setup of some type.
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Road Captain
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Since Eastern Performance is within a reasonable distance to me I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if they have an 18-512 and if they are willing to look at it and tell me the position of the ports.
The other thing I was thinking about doing is possible cutting channels in the Screamin' Eagle backing plate that run down to the TB opening and then covering the channels with a piece of aluminum. I've already figured out a way to hold the piece of aluminum in place.
I am convinced that the proper placement of the ports in relation to the TB opening is the answer to this issue.
I know I could simple clean the filter every month or so but I see that as a poor work around that will eventually take a toll on the air filter material and that heavy oil in the air filter material just clogs up air flow.
Cruiser
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Mine is the second one, got it from Eastern Performance. Got a K&N filter on it still gets oil in the bottom of the filter, but not bad enough to worry about. I run a rain sock on a open filter and don't have any oil on motor or tank, with out the sock I can see little spots on the motor. If I had the option I'd go with the other one as well. In hind sight wish I'd went with a heavy breather instead.
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Mine is the second one, got it from Eastern Performance. Got a K&N filter on it still gets oil in the bottom of the filter, but not bad enough to worry about. I run a rain sock on a open filter and don't have any oil on motor or tank, with out the sock I can see little spots on the motor. If I had the option I'd go with the other one as well. In hind sight wish I'd went with a heavy breather instead.
You it's the damnedest thing, the box on the Sucker I got says the ports exit the backing plate at the TB opening but the actual plate doesn't. Ridiculous, I guess I am going to have to call Arlen Ness to find out what the hell is going on. If they changed the design then I'll move forward with modding mine.
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Thought about epoxying some tubes in mine to direct the oil in the intake, but would really hate for one of them to go in the motor. That would pi$$ me off alot more than a little oil in the filter.
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I'll post some pics of it in late June. I have a trip coming up in early June and I have more chrome and other fun stuff to install for that trip to worry about the splooge oil.
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Mine is the second one, got it from Eastern Performance. Got a K&N filter on it still gets oil in the bottom of the filter, but not bad enough to worry about. I run a rain sock on a open filter and don't have any oil on motor or tank, with out the sock I can see little spots on the motor. If I had the option I'd go with the other one as well. In hind sight wish I'd went with a heavy breather instead.
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That would be hard to do without buying some new breather bolts which had nipples on it for houses and held the backing plate in place as well.
I'm sure they bolts to do that exist but I'd prefer not to go that route. If I did anything along those lines I would run them to a catch can setup of some type.
I'm sure they bolts to do that exist but I'd prefer not to go that route. If I did anything along those lines I would run them to a catch can setup of some type.