Oil Question (Kind Of)

[nubee]

Changed the oil and filter on my bike. Yammie Lube to Wally World Shell Rotella Synthetic. Cranked the bike, let it run for a minute or two, then shut her down.

I came back about ten minutes later to check for leaks, sure enough, I had about a six inch puddle under the bike. It wasn't oil though, it was gas. I had forgotten to turn off my manual petcocks

Cleaned the gas off the bike and the floor, let it sit for a day, then rode it two up for about fifty miles.

Today I read of some members getting gas in their crank case that way.

Question is, should I be able to smell any gas in the crank case by taking filler plug out or should I just change the oil again?

[trbig]

If you've rode it 50 miles since doing this, any damage will have been done and the suspect gas (If any) would have been evaporated from the crankcase vent.

MOST of the time, with the bike on the sidestand, if the petcocks leak, it will go backwards towards the intake side or to the rear of the carbs and leak out into the air filter. If you park it on the center stand, this raises the back end and tends to let the gas run through the carbs, into a cylinder through an open valve, down past the rings and into the oil.. diluting it.

My only suggestion for changing the oil would be because you used synthetic. If your clutches don't slip with it though... more power to you and go with it!

Oh... and fix your petcocks.. lol.


Tod

[TopCatGr58]

Actually it sounds like his petcocks work, because they don't leak when he remembers to turn them off, but his carbs DO leak when he leaves them on, so he really needs to fix his FLOAT VALVES!!

Like Tod said, best of luck with regards to possible clutch slippage especially riding 2 up. A search for SYNTHETIC OIL will probably reveal a few hundreds threads to browse thru!
T.C.

[trbig]

TC is right... sorry.. lol. Brain fart.

[nubee]

Thanks,

I guess I dodged the bullet on that bit of stupidity. I will fix the float valves soon. No clutch slipping, I did put a load on it.