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SpannerMonkey
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PostPosted: 15:58 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: What does it mean when... Reply with quote

When you take your oil filler cap off after 5 mins of running and nothing but steam billows out of it, It's an air cooled engine on a bike that got vandalised. 4 stroke
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PostPosted: 16:17 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Someone pee'd in your oil?
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PostPosted: 16:23 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

There should be no steam, but there could be a lot of smoke.

Are you sure it was actually steam? For it to be steam there would have to be water in the engine. If that's the case you need to change the oil. There's an outside chance you might get some petrol vapour out if you had a problem with the fuel tap or carbs but you would have smelled that.

You might have got a lot of smoke out of there especially if the clutch was slipping.
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SpannerMonkey
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PostPosted: 17:35 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pete. wrote:
There should be no steam, but there could be a lot of smoke.

Are you sure it was actually steam? For it to be steam there would have to be water in the engine. If that's the case you need to change the oil. There's an outside chance you might get some petrol vapour out if you had a problem with the fuel tap or carbs but you would have smelled that.

You might have got a lot of smoke out of there especially if the clutch was slipping.

To be fair, it does sound like I can hear my clutch slip on it, Like a high pitch screeching noise that happens on about 6 cranks of the engine as the clutch is gripping. Didnt do this last week =/
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