elkgrichard
High Miler
Perfect. That mayo won't last long in hot oil.
Sounds like your systems been working good for you. I had no choice but to do what I did, the benefits are also good with a cleaner burning combustion chambers.
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Perfect. That mayo won't last long in hot oil.
Perfect. That mayo won't last long in hot oil.
~5"x3"x3" - yes it sure would.How big is that little tank? Will it fit in between the jugs?
That's easy to prove or disprove....
Clean the engine and box with de greaser and dry it . Blow baby powder or flour over the seam between engine and then ride. You will see stains and paths of oil in the powder as it leaks out
You do see some the have a very slight leak from the rear main seal that comes out from the bell housing seam.
Every guzzi I worked on has some form of condensed oil in the air box and its quite likely that it leaks out
Someone put a post up on another forum, a tech from a Guzzi shop and he said the same thing about the rear main seals that some leak a little bit. He said that often after replaced during a clutch overhaul the rear main seals get a slight leak with a few miles. His claim is that the cranks never run totally true from the factory on some of the bikes.
In the European models (Greek at least) there is no such isolated compartment ,the hose goes directly from the lower part of the backbone tube to the sump.The lower rubber hose (tube) that you mention doesn't go directly to the sump. That's what I would like it to do. In stock form, it connects to an isolated compartment in the front of the airbox. There is another line that goes from that compartment down to the sump.
This all gets more confusing if you look at the Moto Guzzi parts diagrams. The USA diagrams show many more tubes connected to the airbox with "Ts" and some other unknown destination. My bike, a USA bike, looks just like the Euro diagram. Go figure.
Thank you. At least I know I should be able to route it like that without a problem.In the European models (Greek at least) there is no such isolated compartment ,the hose goes directly from the lower part of the backbone tube to the sump.
Yes but you may still have oil puddles inside the air box as is the case with my bike....................go figure why.Thank you. At least I know I should be able to route it like that without a problem.
I don't think this is the case because the sump hose in my bike (and probably all European bikes) goes to the frame tube which is way to high.Be advised....do not let that one way check valve sit too low below that starter. If it's too low the oil will run past that check valve from the sump when the bike is not running and end up trapped between the check valve and the airbox. It will then get sucked into the airbox when you start the bike. If you have oil usage issues that is probably what's going on.
If you find oil puddled up on the bottom of the airbox, that is deffently the cause. Since when things work correctly, all you should find inside that airbox will be a light misting. Light misting good, puddles bad.
My advice would be to actually mount that check valve above the starter motor!!!!! The factory mounted them below the starter motor for esthetics and that's why some folks are having this stupid issue in the first place. Who ever mounted it on my bike got a little liberal with the length of the hose and it hung down below that starter motor by a good margin, it was in fact below the oil level in the freakin sump. We do have a thing called gravity. If you can't figure this one out, it's the meds screwing up your mind.
In fact I would go as far as to say this is something that should be re-mounted on all of these bikes and should be on a check list of things to change along with the plastic fuel filter, Loctite on the front tank mounting bolts, tie strap the clutch cable, making sure you remove the swing arm and grease the frocking splines which sometimes found with little grease, etc. I don't want to re-write a dictionary, so I'll stop here.