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Mikethediabetic
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 06, 2013 - 10:02 am: | 
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ok thanks that helps. i thought they should be run to a catch can of some sort. but what is the reason for the smoke? that is still getting me. would it have anything to do with the fact that the whole rear everything is new along with all the fluids in the bike? just has to break in and settle? im a little lost on this one. |
S1owner
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 06, 2013 - 12:16 pm: |
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My thought is it could be risidual that was left in the system. Someone chime in here but I would run it till it warms up see if it goes away. |
Brother_in_buells
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 06, 2013 - 02:30 pm: |
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Looking at that rear piston ,big change that it's blowby from other piston/cylinder. |
K12pilot
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 02:29 pm: |
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Any updates??? |
Mikethediabetic
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 04:47 pm: |
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sorry for lack of updates guys. well after he said it was smoking bad out of the breather tube i told him to send me a pick of how it was routed. and this is how it is.
now i know that where a catch can should be, or it should b just vented to the ground correct? could this be part of the problem? the crud is getting backed up in there or something? I kept telling him to start the bike and let it run for a while but he has been busy and hasnt done it yet.
any input guys? again it wasnt smoking out of the exhaust just that tube apparently. |
S1owner
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 07:07 pm: |
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Well the tube will fill up. It should run into a can with a vent on the top that way the blow by will drip down and the pressure and heat will vent out the top. Yes it can just drain to the air but would you want oil dripping in front of your tires? |
Mikethediabetic
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 08:38 am: |
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yeah i understand it would dump in front of the tires. im just saying fr the time being i could route it down to get it started and what not. |
S1owner
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 11:11 am: |
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Yes drain it to a small pop bottle or something for temp to run it |
Lynrd
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 12:05 pm: |
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Turning the breatherbolts so that the exit faces up would help the oil run back in the engine, not down the tube. Gravity is your friend. |
Mikethediabetic
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 01:51 pm: |
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^is that the right thing to do? isnt it all supposed to come out instead of keeping it in? i dont believe that i have ever seeon one run like this. of course i could be (and most likely am) wrong tho. |
S1owner
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 01:58 pm: |
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Yes I have the crossroads devonator and it joins both together above the carb and before they ran up and back so it should not be an issue |
Lynrd
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 01:58 pm: |
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You want the *AIR* to come out. It is best to keep the engine oil in the engine. To do otherwise is at least rude and messy, if not dangerous.
Otherwise they wouldn't call it a "Breather", they would call it an "Oil Sprayer"
Note the PCV valves on the later rocker boxes are on top of the engine...
(Message edited by Lynrd on August 16, 2013) |
Mikethediabetic
| | Posted on Friday, August 16, 2013 - 03:35 pm: |
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would any of you have a picture of how to run it correctly? |
Natexlh1000
| | Posted on Saturday, August 17, 2013 - 06:08 am: |
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"Turning the breatherbolts so that the exit faces up would help the oil run back in the engine"
This isn't true. There are one-way valves in the heads that prevent flow back inside.
Once it's out of the head, it's out. |
Lynrd
| | Posted on Saturday, August 17, 2013 - 10:52 am: |
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Good point if you trust those umbrella valves to do their job. I'll keep on doing it the way I have for the same reason I always have.
Possibly, then - in the course of his rebuild he either left out the umbrellas, put them in upside down, or they failed. |
