Excessive oil around shim

[Guest]

Hello!

I was in the process of checking my valve shim clearances when I notice there was an excessive amount of oil, a small pool, in one of the valves.

What does this mean?

[tkent02]

That's just proving that oil always rolls down hill, and if it can't roll down hill it doesn't roll at all.

[Fjbj40]

That's normal

[dpollisme]

Good deal, thank you.

[bwringer]

Pools of oil around the buckets in an 8V Suzuki engine are normal, necessary, and should make you feel all warm and fuzzy and adequately lubricated.

[1980GS1000E]

You should see how much oil splashes around in the 1980 series Honda inline fours.