My engine oil is the colour of honey. Shame it's coming out the exhaust...

Dobbinuk

Dobbinuk

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My Zane Sport Formula has been standing since February, with one or two starts in between.  I started it up yesterday and it began to smoke from the front area almost immediately.  On closer inspection, it seems that engine oil was coming out of the left hand (if on bike) cylinder.  It was running down the exhaust from the join where the down pipe meets the header, hence the smoke as soon as the pipe heated.  A drip was also visible from the second join so quite a bit of oil seems to have made its way through.  I continued to run it, as there were no strange noises and the smoking stopped.  I guess valve guide or possibly rings but thought I'd ask if anyone has come across this before?  I'm reluctant to run it again (to see if it was temporary) but even more reluctant to take it apart.  I suspect I'm going to have to though.

Has anyone had a similar experience before?  Any advice / views gratefully received.

Regards,
Lee.
 
Sounds like a leak rather than oil comming from the exhaust port, who knows with a Zane they seem to throw up an almost limitless array of maladies....but as a rule it will be black if it is comming out of the exhaust port as it's been mixed up with the carbon and soot.
  Give it a wash and start it up with everything clean, this should help pinpoint the source of the leak.


  Keith
 
laverdakeith said:
Sounds like a leak rather than oil comming from the exhaust port, who knows with a Zane they seem to throw up an almost limitless array of maladies....but as a rule it will be black if it is comming out of the exhaust port as it's been mixed up with the carbon and soot.
   Give it a wash and start it up with everything clean, this should help pinpoint the source of the leak.


   Keith
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I agree with Keith, if the oil is clean like honey, has to be a leak, maybe valve cover?

I am just dealing with bad valve guides on a 70's Japanese four cylinder, the oil coming out the exhaust ports is carbon midnight black while the engine has fresh clean break in oil in it....

Paul LeClair
 
hi Lee have you checked your coolant level , I dont think its oil as the others have said it would be black and carbony, after the winter layup my Zane 750 smoked quite a bit till all the damp had come out on the first startup and mine is a strike no fairing so the engine isn,t so prone to damp
Chris
 
Cheers for the replies chaps. It's deffo clean engine oil. I'll try starting it again at some point. I'm thinking that it's come down from the valves and has collected in the cylinder, before being pushed out when I first thumbed the starter. Maybe a timely warning.
 
Lee, start it, warm it up, trundle off to your favourite bit of road,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"AND SCREW THE BALLS OFF IT!"      It's a Zane, sooner or later it's going to blow itself to smithereens anyway, that's what they do!, enjoy it while it lasts.
(Spoken by one very disgruntled piece of shit owner, I should have put the money into the Triple, oh well, the experience of life and all that. :'(
Spiders Tip number One;
Look very closely at the history of what you intend to buy, don't let the rose tinted spectacles cloud your judgement!.  ::)
 
Howdy Dobbi,
We had a similar issue on my 750 Formula, after much head scratching and pain in the arse hunts, 'we' (Cosi) tracked it down to a half moon block on the rocker cover weeping.
But as the man said, clean it up then run it and have a look, the later zane valves had much better oil flow than the early 650's (ones a cooker and the other runs kinda cool - relatively speaking).

I love my Formula (s)

 

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Tighten the valve cover, but dont torque it up, i snapped a bolt doing it, was great fun drilling into the head to get the prick out, lucky it was a back one or it would have been motor out

And contrary to popular belief you can do it with the fairing on, but its a cnt

but doing anything on a Zane is  :D

Spidey Spidey Spidey, what are we going to do with you
 
"SPIDER" said:
Well, I am being exeedingly grumpy at present, must be the male menopause!
Or Zane ownership!
If I make a man laugh then I have served my purpose in life.  :D
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Spidy thought you was getting on a bit male menopause ,pipe and slippers wheezing Breganze triple you not make it in the DARK SIDE  :D
 
Thanks Strike, perhaps us Zaner's are a breed apart, as in, we must be bonkers to put up with em!
(I still reckon my Zane would be good with a wheezy triple motor in it though, I will have to get an, "enormous" shoe horn and a lot of, "Magic Moon Dust" to get it to work.
8) 
 
Erm slightly late reply to this one; I've not been on the forum for a while.

You do realise that if you put a triple engine in the Laverda, especially Triumph, you'd be perfectly within your rights to call it a Lavertri?

I have a spare Zane 750SF frame in the shed and would love to try that one day ;)
 
"SPIDER" said:
Lee, start it, warm it up, trundle off to your favourite bit of road,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"AND SCREW THE BALLS OFF IT!"      It's a Zane, sooner or later it's going to blow itself to smithereens anyway, that's what they do!, enjoy it while it lasts.
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Hear, Hear!!
Ride it like you STOLE it!!
Ride like you would fly a Mustang fighter plane. Like a Screaming Banshee.

Ans when it blows itself to smithereens either give it a Viking Funeral or install a SV650 motor in the Zane chassis.  :)

DM
 
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