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| 2001 zx6r Loosing oil; oil | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 9 2009, 05:31 PM (658 Views) | |
| Lupton_zx6r | Sep 9 2009, 05:31 PM Post #1 |
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Basically my bike seems to be loosing oil its just got onto 16,000 miles, and yes it gets thrashed everwhere. What i think maybe happening is its chucking oil out the breather? Could anyone help me with this? Its loosing the sight glass window amount per fortnight. Cheers Chris. |
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| darkember | Sep 9 2009, 10:38 PM Post #2 |
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Any more info such as type of bike, is there any blue smoke, any lack in power delivery during hard acceleration??
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| Lupton_zx6r | Sep 10 2009, 11:50 AM Post #3 |
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its a 2001 zx6r. power delivery is nice and smooth and blue smoke etc is there a breather it could throw it out of? :wacko: |
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| andy-750 | Sep 10 2009, 05:59 PM Post #4 |
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there is a crank case breathher which should breate into the airbox , sounds like it may be expensive tho as that seems to be a fair amount of oil to use unless you do a high milage , probably piston or bore related as it sounds like you may have high crank case pressure caused by knackered pistons or bores or if you are lucky just the piston rings |
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| darkember | Sep 10 2009, 07:45 PM Post #5 |
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Well to put the breather to rest check your airbox, if the oil is getting in there it should be really clogged, very much doubt it cause the general performance would suffer. Blue smoke was a reference to exhaust fumes, if there is blue smoke there it looks as though the rings are leaking oil into the firing chamber, as posted by Andy above. |
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