Hey all,
Installed my powered coated breather tube the other week, looks great!





But ive ridden around for a while now, and was going to install a longer section (came with like a 4" long tube) but noticed that the end was completely dry.
From my previous experience with the foam breather bolts, I was spraying a oil out of those onto the filter, so im a little worried that I didnt install something right. Im hoping its just small amount of air needed is held in the tube so where as it used to pump in and out, now its more equalized and isnt spitting oil out? I know a lot of you use catch cans or run it to the back to let the oil drain to the ground, so Im surprised I went from oil mist around the filter with the bolts, to nada at the end of the tube.

 

My stock A/C never had oil in it and now that I went to the Hi-Flow 587, it drips oil every other trip or so. Im gonna relocate my catch can i think. I placed mine right under the filter itself and it looks pretty good but, drips on the engine cover.

 

I had Outlaw 587 and now running a V-stack with external breather bolts. Had oil residue inside the 587 so I ordered breather bolts with double filter...no more oily residue and still a clean look i.e. no hose. You can run your hose under your bike like what Kevin did to his sporty. Good luck.

 

I wondered the same thing a while after installing mine, I scrunched up a paper towel and slid it up in the tube and sure enough it came out with a tiny amount of black stuff on it so I know it's breathing but I never have seen any liquid drip out.
I think a lot has to do with how the engine was broken in when it was new, lots of people baby the engine in the first hundred miles (as per the manual) and the rings never seat in properly before the honing is worn off the cylinder walls, that causes the engine to always have more blow-by. I broke mine in the way we used to break in racing go-kart motors with lots of mid range hard acceleration and deceleration which builds compression pressure behind the rings forcing them out into the fresh honing and seating them really well, I have no blow-by to speak of and "use" no oil between oil changes as a result.