Subject: Re: Oil Leak
Author: Ian Adkins
Date: Jun 11, 2001, 7:45 PM
Post ID: 1707079128
Greg,
Really sorry to hear about the crash. Are you referring to the left hand
tube on the breather box. That tube runs down as a drain pipe for the oil
mist right? If I remember correctly that tube just handles mist. How much
oil came out do you think? Is it possible that the oil came from somewhere
else on the bike? Maybe it was already on the road?
Good luck with the repairs. Glad to hear you're ok too.....Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Dahlman <gr-@rm-rf.com>
To: Loopfram-@topica.com <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Date: June 11, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Oil Leak
| You may not want to take this very lightly. I use to have a few drips come out of the breather tube after long rides and discounted it as a normal thing. Well yesterday I was on a freeway on ramp just starting to come up to speed when the rear tire lost traction and slid to the left. These things always seem to happen in slow motion but it seemed like the throttle was slow coming down and by the time it did I was in sever risk of high siding if the tire had regained traction. I probably did the wrong thing and decided to apply more power so I would low side and the bike went down. I escaped with only a small amount of road rash on my belt line where my jacket road up but the bike has lots of issues now. After I crashed and looked back you could see a huge streak of oil before the crash happened. I'm not sure what went wrong but it appears to be coming from the small left hand tube. I really want to thank Frank who jump and gave up his time to help me try and find a way to get the bike home and please if you have an oil leak make sure there isn't an larger problem underneath. I'm not the worlds best rider but even with a good solid 10 years of riding experience this one happened a lot faster than I would have ever imagined A few pictures, Exxon would be proud http://www.boredom.org/~mongo/crash/MVC-009F.JPG The curb kinda hurts http://www.boredom.org/~mongo/crash/MVC-010F.JPG I can't even comment on this sad picture http://www.boredom.org/~mongo/crash/MVC-014F.JPG -Greg |