I have smoke SOMETIMES.
IT GOES FROM NOTHING TO A LITTLE TO A SMOKE SCREEN FROM A JAMES BOND MOVIE.
The only thing that may bring it on is traffic and the bike getting hot.
I just dont know how the smoke can change. I can go blocks or 100 miles with nothing then it starts.
HELP!
OK for those of you that dont know my bike is a 1988, 1400cc uncorked Intruder with 60.000 miles.
Smoking 1400
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Re: Smoking 1400
If it blue smoke it's oil.......You may want to take a compression test.....If compression is low...Add a teaspoon of oil to the cylinder & take test again......If compression comes up it's rings.....if not than top end.....Valve seals/guides.
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Re: Smoking 1400
Yup, what he said. Cant be anything else. A small little bit of smoke, maybe a misfire from dirty plugs. But your james bond smoke thats totally oil. What else it could be?
Except if you put oil in your gas like its a 2 stroke :P
Except if you put oil in your gas like its a 2 stroke :P
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Re: Smoking 1400
The weird part is the way it comes and goes.hurleyfrank wrote:Yup, what he said. Cant be anything else. A small little bit of smoke, maybe a misfire from dirty plugs. But your james bond smoke thats totally oil. What else it could be?
Except if you put oil in your gas like its a 2 stroke :P
Usually, bad rings will smoke when driving at a steady speed, every time you drive.
Bad valve guides/seals will smoke on startup, after idling for a while (like at a traffic light), or after decel for a ways. They will smoke when first getting on the throttle, but then clear up.
I also had a car that smoked, a lot, but had good compression, wet or dry. pulled the heads, nothing wrong with them. Started pulling the pistons, ended up with 4 pistons the oil rings were stuck.
Sure be interesting to find out what the problem is.
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Re: Smoking 1400
I was thinking about your trouble tonight, and there is MAYBE another way: PCV valve
Maybe, just maybe, your pcv stick open sometime, and it pukes oil in your front air box when doing so? that could explain the intermittence of the trouble...
I know, it's stretched a bit...
what you guys are thinkgs ?
Maybe, just maybe, your pcv stick open sometime, and it pukes oil in your front air box when doing so? that could explain the intermittence of the trouble...
I know, it's stretched a bit...
what you guys are thinkgs ?
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I don't know, he didn't say if it was just one cylinder.hurleyfrank wrote:I was thinking about your trouble tonight, and there is MAYBE another way: PCV valve
Maybe, just maybe, your pcv stick open sometime, and it pukes oil in your front air box when doing so? that could explain the intermittence of the trouble...
I know, it's stretched a bit...
what you guys are thinkgs ?
I know that he was having trouble with the rear cylinder.
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Re: Smoking 1400
Prolly just dumped in a whole new bottle of seafoam or something.
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