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As the title suggested, searching oil, oil leak, oil consumption, or oil burn, all end up with threads discussing oil type dino vs syn, rear main seal leaks, and FD failure. Its a lot to wade through.
ANYWAYS, I have a 99 lt. 157000 miles give or take. had it 1.5 years bought used with 153000. when i first bought it i drove around for a couple weeks with a few long trips in there and i noticed after a while a sputter and decreased gas mileage. After some helpful advice i pulled the plugs and found cyl 1 plug heavily oil fouled (read: oil had started to form carbon chunks that built up and shorted out the plug) and the others all lightly fouled with oil. I was at work after hours and all the places to buy plugs had closed so i cleaned them and stuck them back in. Viola! bike runs good gas mileage is up (hit a peak of 50mpg one time while babying it) Fast forward. I am riding to work this morning and i feel a sputter not big but enough to remind me of last year. I snuck out of work to buy plugs and came back put them in. runs great again. the old plugs are all fouled again #1 still the worst offender. SO, am i doomed to putting new plugs in once a year? Does this thing have a pcv valve? Is my engine not long for the world? is it time for me to buy an adaptor for my leak down tester? Is buying new plugs each year cheaper than finding/ rebuilding an engine?
Secondly, while changing the plugs i came across a noticable amount of oil hanging off my exhaust manifold. I followed it back to two possible places which were also oil soaked. there was some slight oil film on the timing cover area. there was also a noticable amount of oil in the area where the oil pressure sending unit and coolant temp sending unit are. So what "good german seals" should i be looking to replace?
I know for a fact that this bike was well maintained (the sellers shop had records) and was previously owned by someone who frequented this site and made many of the mods and upgrades already listed on this site. He was also at a CCR event in 2002 as i have a sticker on the front and back of the bike attesting to that. I think its still a good bike It just needs some love
Whew... that was long winded. So, thoughts suggestions advice?
PS. I dont want to add another oil thread (really!) so lets not discuss what kind of oil Im using or you are using.
ANYWAYS, I have a 99 lt. 157000 miles give or take. had it 1.5 years bought used with 153000. when i first bought it i drove around for a couple weeks with a few long trips in there and i noticed after a while a sputter and decreased gas mileage. After some helpful advice i pulled the plugs and found cyl 1 plug heavily oil fouled (read: oil had started to form carbon chunks that built up and shorted out the plug) and the others all lightly fouled with oil. I was at work after hours and all the places to buy plugs had closed so i cleaned them and stuck them back in. Viola! bike runs good gas mileage is up (hit a peak of 50mpg one time while babying it) Fast forward. I am riding to work this morning and i feel a sputter not big but enough to remind me of last year. I snuck out of work to buy plugs and came back put them in. runs great again. the old plugs are all fouled again #1 still the worst offender. SO, am i doomed to putting new plugs in once a year? Does this thing have a pcv valve? Is my engine not long for the world? is it time for me to buy an adaptor for my leak down tester? Is buying new plugs each year cheaper than finding/ rebuilding an engine?
Secondly, while changing the plugs i came across a noticable amount of oil hanging off my exhaust manifold. I followed it back to two possible places which were also oil soaked. there was some slight oil film on the timing cover area. there was also a noticable amount of oil in the area where the oil pressure sending unit and coolant temp sending unit are. So what "good german seals" should i be looking to replace?
I know for a fact that this bike was well maintained (the sellers shop had records) and was previously owned by someone who frequented this site and made many of the mods and upgrades already listed on this site. He was also at a CCR event in 2002 as i have a sticker on the front and back of the bike attesting to that. I think its still a good bike It just needs some love
Whew... that was long winded. So, thoughts suggestions advice?
PS. I dont want to add another oil thread (really!) so lets not discuss what kind of oil Im using or you are using.