• Required reading for all forum users!!!

    Welcome!
    Register to access the full functionality of the GSResources forum. Until you register and activate your account you will not have full forum access, nor will you be able to post or reply to messages.

    A note to new registrants...
    All new forum registrations must be activated via email before you have full access to the forum.

    A Special Note about Email accounts!
    DO NOT SIGN UP USING hotmail, outlook, gmx, sbcglobal, att, bellsouth or email.com. They delete our forum signup emails.

    A note to old forum members...
    I receive numerous requests from people who can no longer log in because their accounts were deleted. As mentioned in the forum FAQ, user accounts are deleted if you haven't logged in for the past 6 months. If you can't log in, then create a new forum account. If you don't get an error message, then check your email account for an activation message. If you get a message stating that the email address is already in use, then your account still exists so follow the instructions in the forum FAQ for resetting your password.

    Have you forgotten your password or have a new email address? Then read the forum FAQ for details on how to reset it.

    Any email requests for "can't log in anymore" problems or "lost my password" problems will be deleted. Read the forum FAQ and follow the instructions there - that's what we have one for...

  • Returning Visitors

    If you are a returning visitor who never received your confirmation email, then odds are your email provider is blockinig emails from our server. The only thing that can be done to get around this is you will have to try creating another forum account using an email address from another domain.

    If you are a returning visitor to the forum and can't log in using your old forum name and password but used to be able to then chances are your account is deleted. Purges of the databases are done regularly. You will have to create a new forum account and you should be all set.

Lots of oil out of overflow, now runs bad.

  • Thread starter Thread starter DrunkenChekhov
  • Start date Start date
D

DrunkenChekhov

Guest
Well I was riding on the interstate today for about 45 min going somewhere around 80. My bike is geared up 3 in the rear so I was running at decently high rpm's, but I've done this before with no issues.

Anyways, all of a sudden I feel liquid splash onto my jeans and a sudden loss of power. At around 5k rpm it just plateus and doesn't want to go any higher. I pull off at the next gas station to check things out and there is just oil everywhere. Everywhere but my motor. All over the carbs and electrics. It looks like it came from the oil overflow hose. After checking and adding a quart of oil I started it up and it sounded fine, so I babied it back into town on the backroads. It was smoking blue pretty bad for a while, so I stopped again and no oil had been used (via the oil window). Again I set back out and after a while it changed to what looked like white smoke.


The bike revs to 5k rpms under load, but in neutral or pulling the clutch in it will rev higher, and the power seems to be down to about 75%. What could have/is happening? I was thinking perhaps that since the air filters were soaked with oil that is why it was smoking blue and so down on power, but after it changed to white I'm not so sure.


I've had a bad day guys, thanks to anyone still reading and can possibly help. Cheers.
 
Time to check petcock for correct operation! sounds like your crankcase got filled with gas which then spewed out thru vent hose on cam cover running to airbox (if you still have one). If so, your oil is likely no good, change/dump it responsibly. If will take a while to burn off gas remnants.
 
Do you have a compression tester? Sounds like there is a lot of blow by, so maybe something happened to a piston/rings.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top