elkgrichard
High Miler
Just out of curiosity, I would like to find out if this oil consumption issue or oil pooled inside the airbox wide spread.
Would also like to find out how often this happens, with our without extended sump?
Is there a relationship with this problem relating to the extended sump?
Reason I ask this, before I installed the extended sump, I found very little oil inside my airbox, after installation of the extended sump, I then had an issue with oil pooled inside my airbox. Was this coincidental, or could there possibly be a connection?
I'm wondering if that oil return system the culprit, and pushing oil into the airbox and thus exasperated by more oil sloshing around in the sump with the extended sump?
I keep noticing people talking about keeping the oil level at the bottom of the dip stick, why would that be an issue anyway, and why would keeping oil or filling to the top of the stick be such an issue? If the sump is acting as a separate oil tank you would think filling to the top dip stick line would be OK....right?
One other possibility......is that the oil return line into the sump was somehow installed too low into that sump by the factory? Thus the blow by past the one way check valve into the airbox. So when that check valve opens and closes oil become trapped on the airbox side and that oil is sucked into the airbox.
Something strange is going on with that oil return system!!!!
The reason I'm wondering about all of this, if you vent to the atmosphere and plug that oil return line, you find out very little oil, just a fine mist blowiiing out from the head vents, not enough to even put much oil into the airbox at all.
Would also like to find out how often this happens, with our without extended sump?
Is there a relationship with this problem relating to the extended sump?
Reason I ask this, before I installed the extended sump, I found very little oil inside my airbox, after installation of the extended sump, I then had an issue with oil pooled inside my airbox. Was this coincidental, or could there possibly be a connection?
I'm wondering if that oil return system the culprit, and pushing oil into the airbox and thus exasperated by more oil sloshing around in the sump with the extended sump?
I keep noticing people talking about keeping the oil level at the bottom of the dip stick, why would that be an issue anyway, and why would keeping oil or filling to the top of the stick be such an issue? If the sump is acting as a separate oil tank you would think filling to the top dip stick line would be OK....right?
One other possibility......is that the oil return line into the sump was somehow installed too low into that sump by the factory? Thus the blow by past the one way check valve into the airbox. So when that check valve opens and closes oil become trapped on the airbox side and that oil is sucked into the airbox.
Something strange is going on with that oil return system!!!!
The reason I'm wondering about all of this, if you vent to the atmosphere and plug that oil return line, you find out very little oil, just a fine mist blowiiing out from the head vents, not enough to even put much oil into the airbox at all.
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