| Author | Message | ||
     Schmitty |
My 2005 XB9R has started to smell like it's burning a bit of oil. The other morning I left the house and drove about a mile and a half, parked it at the gas station and went inside for a minute. When I came back out and started the bike, there was a puff of white oil smoke out of the front header and out the muffler. But it went away right away. It does smoke on start up and when I shut it down now too. The bike has just over 13k on it, and it spent 2 seasons as my CCS race bike. A Harley motor ace at work thinks it might be a valve seal?? Am I ok to keep driving it this way? I was going to tear the top end down this winter for a refresh anyway, but I'm hoping it makes it that long. | ||
| Farmer32 |
What mods do you have done with it ? Check your air filter to see if it has any oil on it from the two rubber hoses from the valve covers ... (the name escapes me ) | ||
| Schmitty |
The breather hoses have been rerouted to a catch can and there is just a little blow by mist in there. Nothing more than there ever has been. I have a K&N filter, Micron exhaust, and a Daytona Twin-Tec tuner. | ||
| Greg_e |
Valve seals. What are you going to do to the top end? If it goes on as long as mine did the oil can cause problems with valves sealing at the seat. | ||
| Schmitty |
I was planning on valve guides, seals, and springs, new gaskets, possibly new rings, new lifters, polish the heads. There's also a chance that I might throw a 12 crank in the bottom end? |
