My sister has an 06 sporty 883. She called complaining of an oil leak. When I looked at it, the air filter was saturated with oil. It has a stock breather and when I took the filter out I could see that the oil was coming from the head breather. Guess there crank case breathers. What causes this? My 95 1200 does the same damn thing. Oil gets all over my pipes and everything else. Can anyone help?

 

#1 cause is too much oil in the oil tank.
The oil level should be 1/2 way between the ADD and FULL marks in the dipstick, when checked with the motor hot and the bike on the jiffy stand.

 

I don't think you can stop it, but there are cleaner ways to handle it. Check out DK's outlaw breather bolts. My V&H kit came with rubber hoses to blow that oil directly into the intake.. not something I'm happy about but it's better than blowing it out on the bike. I don't know how much is "normal", or what would cause more than normal blowing out.

 

hey cHarley.. is it possible to get no oil mist blowing out if you get the oil level perfect?

 

I've got the DK's, they look great and keep the oil out of the intake but man, they spray the bike. Pipes, air cleaner, gas tank.

 

+1 on what charley said,you can use a chicken baster to get the oil out.
I find a little below halfway the best for my bike.

 

Not much point in them then is there? I thought they had a filter in them such that pressure could release but oil couldn't pass through. I bought some but I ordered them too long (my fault, I didn't measure and guessed).. was planning on sawing them down and installing them, but if they're not going to prevent oil spray then why bother?

 

On many bikes, yes, but some may still get a small amount when run real hard, like doing the interstate at 80 mph for a few hours.

If the breathers are doing what they are supposed to do, a little bit of oil mist is to be expected, but if you overfill the tank, that little bit of mist turns into puking oil and it's not going to matter what you do or install, the excess oil is going to come out somewhere.

I prefer to not have any oil splattered down the bike or my leg, so my choice was to run a bypass down below the frame. The only time I see any oil, is after I park it when it's been run pretty hard. I might find a drop of oil on the concrete below where the bypass dumps, after it has set for a hour or so. That's much easier to wipe up than having to clean it off the side of bike and my clothes IMO.

The filter that's part of the bypass system below, was removed a couple of years ago, and the line is now runs straight through. I found having to remove and clean the filter every few months was more trouble than it was worth, but the reason I now get the drop of oil on the floor occasionally.






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Nope, not if your intent is to keep the "normal" oil mist off the side of the bike.

 

Yea, as has been said, some most is normal. If you're trying to keep the bike spotless then breather bolts are not your friend. When the most gets caught in the wind it just goes everywhere and really shows up on flat paint