Gas in the crankcase oil - again!

[Hoomgar]

Thanks everyone. All of your comments have helped me make up my mind. Like when Keith said "just like you did with your dirt bikes" - see, that's exactly the point, of the 5 dirt bikes I owned over 30 years I never, ever, even once during the entire time I owned them all remembered to turn off the fuel even one time! I never ever did it even once! There is no way in heven or hell I will ever remember to turn off the petcock. It is simply impossible for me to remember. Not sure why. So there is no way I am going that route. I was talking with Duane Saturday morning before the ride and realized that hey, things break and we simply fix them. That's what we do on these 25+ year old bikes. This is no different. I already have the stock rebuild kit so I'll just do it.

Now on another note. What Ron said. And some others combined. I think the issue is a saturated float. I know the needles and seats were good and the fuel is filtered going into the carbs and the carbs just cleaned so the most likely culprit is a saturated/bad float. My rememberer is rememberering this set of carbs doing this on my other bike. The gas took out a crank end and baring.

I say that because I am getting gas in my oil while I ride.

Petcock needs rebuilt anyway so I'll do that. And I am going to swap my floats with the set from my other carbs which I know are good.

Thanks a million guys

[Hoomgar]

OK, the petcock is rebuilt. New float needles and seats installed and known good floats installed. I changed the oil again.

We'll see if this gets it when I ride it to work tomorrow.

[wrench]

OK, the petcock is rebuilt. New float needles and seats installed and known good floats installed. I changed the oil again.

We'll see if this gets it when I ride it to work tomorrow.

Hey theres another 22 pages left yet :twisted: :twisted:

[Hoomgar]

OK, the petcock is rebuilt. New float needles and seats installed and known good floats installed. I changed the oil again.

We'll see if this gets it when I ride it to work tomorrow.

Hey theres another 22 pages left yet :twisted: :twisted:

No worries mate. This is a Hoom thread :twisted:

[wrench]

OK, the petcock is rebuilt. New float needles and seats installed and known good floats installed. I changed the oil again.

We'll see if this gets it when I ride it to work tomorrow.

Hey theres another 22 pages left yet :twisted: :twisted:

No worries mate. This is a Hoom thread :twisted:

Dont we know it already :twisted:

[KEITH KRAUSE]

To me, the Pingel valve is an upgrade.
When you live long term with a bike, you get rid of the weak points, which the stock petcock is.
In a way, the new valve is no different than a good pipe, pods, piston kit, cams...you just get used to the change.

[robinjo]

OK, the petcock is rebuilt. New float needles and seats installed and known good floats installed. I changed the oil again.

We'll see if this gets it when I ride it to work tomorrow.

Hey theres another 22 pages left yet :twisted: :twisted:

[Hoomgar]

Rain!!! Grrrrrr :x

I'll have to test tomorrow. Looks good from sitting over night though.

[Hoomgar]

Well I fixed several things at one time so I am not sure what fixed it but this is resolved. It needed the petcock rebuilt anyway, the valve needles and seats I had new so there was no sense in not putting them in there while I was at it. And the floats have been suspect before for other reasons so all three things needed done anyway IMHO. Normally I would fix one thing at a time in order to find a problem but I am just as happy that this one is gone.

3 days now and my oil still looks nice and clean and at the same level. No gas smell in the crankcase.

Rock on 8)

[DMPLATT]

Good news man.

Now ride that thing. 8)

[beby99]

=D> Good job.