Taking the bike around the block

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So I started my bike up today, after new pistons/rings/ D+ Cam and a whole bunch of other little stuff. Checked the timing with the timing light, made some adjustments and I was off. Stopped at a friends house, turned the bike off and found out I was dripping a pancake size amount of oil from the breather hose and a guy could follow the cookie crumb trail of oil drops I had left all the way there. Good news is that I am no longer enveloped in a cloud blue haze when I stop at Red lights. So I rode around for an hour (no gloves was a bad choice) and got home, White creamy shit was comming out of the breather hose now........Any tips?


-Dave
 
Where breather attached to motor?
If 72 on back of case possibility of oil being pumped up thru vent due to stacking in back of case due to sustained revs over 4,500.
However with new rings I doubt if you are driving it that way.
Are you running line through oil tank or directly out.
When I recently got my rebuild going for first time I had run the line to the hole on top front of oil tank. Then exit line from back of tank and down.
Found I was dripping some out with white froth when I pulled in.
Maybe the return flow of oil from motor was being pushed out the down and out line with pressure from breather.
I re-routed the breather line to back of oil tank tank as originally intended, with exit from top front of tank then down and out.
No longer any oil or froth coming from line.

Bob
 
Ya I had the Rev's around 2500. I have a hose running from my timing case to the front top of my oil tank. and a hose from the rear top of my oil tank to behind my licence plate....its the licence plate hose the pukes white crap
 
For every gall of fuel burnt there is much the same amount of water produced, so with new rings not yet bedded in you get water vapour getting into the crankcases. Wait until you get to 1000 or more miles and only then worry about the water. Had exactly the same on my rebuilt Victor, its cleared up now but looked messy at the begining especially as I fitted clear hose to the breather. To get the rings bedded in you do need to get a few revs on so the combustion pressure gets behind the rings and forces them against the barrel wall so the honing can wear them to fit the barrel, so short burst of full throttle are in order.
 
I have a hose running from my timing case to the front top of my oil tank. and a hose from the rear top of my oil tank to behind my licence plate....its the licence plate hose the pukes white crap
Should be other way round, engine breather to the filler 'tower' and 'front' fitting to atmosphere or a catch bottle preferably. Probably makes no difference to your issue though. Have run mine in the cold weather a lot this year and the white stuff (we call it mayonnaise!) is abundant. No new rings in mine but I did disturb them fitting a new cam, might be reseating as per Kommando's comment.
 
Filled the oil tank to the upper mark on the dipstick? and then went for a ride without checking the oil return? Sounds like the wet sump overfilled the tank and it spewed out the breather.

Mick
 
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