no oil

[Road_Clam]

The cam journals will be the first to recieve abrupt distruction from lack of oil. They only have .0015 of clearence to begin with. Three miles without oil is a LOT of time for some destruction......

[DrewDude320i]

Well, he's usually quite the gear head (he has a Nissan Maxima that he's done a lot of work on, and he's a damn good detailer) but I guess checking the basics...must have slipped his mind. I'm bringing it up to College Station so I can work on it. I'm thinking about putting in some SeaFoam and carb cleaner to see how that'll help out my clogged carb situation, if that doesnt do it I guess I'll have to clean them by hand and put the bike in my dorm room (fun fun).

[DrewDude320i]

one more question that is related:

When it was running with no oil, he reported that it was smoking from the left side only - no smoke out the right muffler. When oil was added, it stopped. Now, it's back. We've added a lot of carb cleaner in there though, including SeaFoam (the right amount), so could that be what's causing it?

[HammerHead]

one more question that is related:

When it was running with no oil, he reported that it was smoking from the left side only - no smoke out the right muffler. When oil was added, it stopped. Now, it's back. We've added a lot of carb cleaner in there though, including SeaFoam (the right amount), so could that be what's causing it?

Changing the filter on my seester thats one thing. Touching my bike thats something all together different. I would have to know you for a long time and have total faith in your abilities before I would let you near my bike.

[DrewDude320i]

He's good with cars, he just made a mistake. as long as it doesnt cause damage, i'll only hospitalize him for a week or so.

[DrewDude320i]

so any ideas on the smoke?

[txironhead]

More likely that it's related to your carb problems. Is it white smoke or dark? You could have a flooding carb that's making it smoke.

It's really not that hard to do a basic carb cleaning. If you're running the stock mufflers and airbox, you probably just need a basic cleaning (plenty of posts here on that). It's when you get into rejetting that things get tricky, or when you're trying to diagnose a phantom crack in a bowl or think it's a carb problem when you have a faulty petcock.

[brveagle]

The smoke will be from the seafoam

[DrewDude320i]

idle speed

What with clogged carbs, it's really hard to make this thing idle. What is the idle speed supposed to be?

[Billyboy]

What with clogged carbs, it's really hard to make this thing idle. What is the idle speed supposed to be?

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