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Oil and gas puddles
- danpcali
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- I ride a 1980 kz650e
I live in Pittsburgh and its been about 65 degrees here. My bike idles at 2 rpms. So two thoughts came to mind:
1) Do I need a new crank case filter?
2) Am I running the bike at too high while it idles?
Is it possible that since I ride it too high that oil and gas are leaking out of it after I ride it and that is what I am noticing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Pull that crankcase filter off and attach a fairly long piece of tubing to the breather. Run that tubing back to the rear fender then point it away from the tire. Clean the top of the engine squeaky clean. Then go for a decent ride, come back and let the bike sit. If liquid still appears on the top of the engine it must be dripping from the carbs or possibly leaking from the chain tensioner. Either should be easy to identify. If the top of the engine is still clean, the liquid was coming from the breather filter. Ed
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Not only useless, such filter is actually harmful, as it becomes clogged and thereby obstructs free crankcase breathing, which causes an undesirable increase in crankcase pressure, resulting in leaking seals (and related problems).
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danpcali wrote: ... don't have the stock L shaped hose but was wondering if anyone has used materials purchased from Home Depot or Lowes to construct the L shaped hose? If so, any specific hoses, material, etc I should use?
When sizing the "L" and hose, try to maintain an interior diameter as large as the exit hole in the breather's nipple, so that there's no restriction anywhere along the routing between the breather cap and exit underneath the bike.
The "L" fitted to my Z1 was an off-the-wall item at AutoZone that happened to fit fairly snugly onto the breather cap nipple. Just snug has been tight enough and without any tendency to pull off, as there are no forces pulling on the hose.
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loudhvx wrote: I basically have the same setup Patton shows there.
I cut off the pipe and threaded in an elbow.
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