Posted by Steve on October 14, 2005, 4:10 pm
| I forgot to close the fuel valve on my CX500 and let it
sit that way for two
| or three days. I rode it for a couple of days, and then
noticed dripping
| from the transmission case at the bottom of the bike. It
is, of course, oil
| mixed with gas that got past the carbs.
|
| I called my local motorcycle shop and set up an
appointment for next week to
| drain the oil and replace the oil and filter (good time to
get a tune-up,
| too).
|
| The motorcycle shop guy told me the bike was too dangerous
to ride, and I
| should have it towed it. He said that there was a danger
of explosion.
|
| Now, I've got it sitting in my office building garage
until next week when I
| can get it towed to the shop -- my wife is driving me to
and from work.
| However, the dripping has stopped almost entirely.
|
| Is it really as dangerous as the motorcycle shop guy said,
or would it be
| okay to ride it on a 5-mile round trip the next week?
|
Must be something else wrong. I have left the fuel
valve on various motorcycles on for days and never had that
happen. However, my normal procedure is to turn the valve
off at the end of the riding day. As for the fuel and oil
mixture that resulted from leakage: I wouldn't ride the
motorcycle anyway until you have replaced the oil and
filter. I would plan on changing it again soon just to make
sure you got it all once you are running again. The reason
I wouldn't ride it has more to do with the contaminated oil
than explosion, though I suppose that is a possibility. Why
would you want to ride and possibly damage your motorcycle
either way? Why don't you change the oil and filter
yourself? -- steve
Posted by PC Paul on October 14, 2005, 5:41 pm
Steve wrote:
> | I forgot to close the fuel valve on my CX500 and let it
> sit that way for two
> | or three days. I rode it for a couple of days, and then
> noticed dripping
> | from the transmission case at the bottom of the bike. It
> is, of course, oil
> | mixed with gas that got past the carbs.
> |
> | I called my local motorcycle shop and set up an
> appointment for next week to
> | drain the oil and replace the oil and filter (good time to
> get a tune-up,
> | too).
> |
> | The motorcycle shop guy told me the bike was too dangerous
> to ride, and I
> | should have it towed it. He said that there was a danger
> of explosion.
> |
> | Now, I've got it sitting in my office building garage
> until next week when I
> | can get it towed to the shop -- my wife is driving me to
> and from work.
> | However, the dripping has stopped almost entirely.
> |
> | Is it really as dangerous as the motorcycle shop guy said,
> or would it be
> | okay to ride it on a 5-mile round trip the next week?
> |
> Must be something else wrong. I have left the fuel
> valve on various motorcycles on for days and never had that
> happen. However, my normal procedure is to turn the valve
> off at the end of the riding day. As for the fuel and oil
> mixture that resulted from leakage: I wouldn't ride the
> motorcycle anyway until you have replaced the oil and
> filter. I would plan on changing it again soon just to make
> sure you got it all once you are running again. The reason
> I wouldn't ride it has more to do with the contaminated oil
> than explosion, though I suppose that is a possibility. Why
> would you want to ride and possibly damage your motorcycle
> either way? Why don't you change the oil and filter
> yourself? -- steve
>
>
The check valve on the oil tank of my old 1969 BSA Rocket III was
absolutely worthless (as were a lot of other bits on that thing). After
sitting for a few hours the tank would drain into the sump and if you
checked the oil level, you would be excused for adding a quart or two.
The problem arose upon starting the bike. If you added oil you would
soon have an eruption of oil from the filler cap as the engine happily
pumped all the oil from the sump back to the tank! I soon learned to
start the engine before checking oil levels. Seems a bit backwards, but
that is totally in tune with English Engineering.
--
PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS
Trip pics at: http://photos.yahoo.com/paul1cart
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt
Posted by badaztek on October 24, 2005, 3:33 am
the problem comes from the fact probably is that they dont want to have
any liability on it if they told you to ride it in and you destroy the
engine they are liable for damage to the engine due to the fact that the
oil has gotten thinned out and the chance of igniting is possible and
cause the engine to literally burn up and it doesnt help its sitting
under the gastank as well
plus if the engine locks up while your cruising the rear wheel locks too
and you can get seriously hurt which would fall into the liability
again.
A nice way to avoid tow charges is to get a good running mini pickup
truck the vw rabbit truck seems to be the vehicle of choice around here
they are front wheel drive they are easy to work on and the parts are
quite affordable and they seem to run forever (seeing 150k-250k seems
the norm for them and they still run great) I did see one guy who put an
air bag system on which dropped the bed to almost within 9 inches of the
ground that made it easy to load his ride .
Good luck and good ridding
Posted by Humma Kavula on October 24, 2005, 7:20 pm
On 24 Oct 2005 16:06:16 -0700, Bike Guy Joe let slip this dark secret:
>what?
"the problem comes from the fact probably is that they dont want to
have
any liability on it if they told you to ride it in and you destroy the
engine they are liable for damage to the engine due to the fact that
the
oil has gotten thinned out and the chance of igniting is possible and
cause the engine to literally burn up and it doesnt help its sitting
under the gastank as well
plus if the engine locks up while your cruising the rear wheel locks
too
and you can get seriously hurt which would fall into the liability
again.
A nice way to avoid tow charges is to get a good running mini pickup
truck the vw rabbit truck seems to be the vehicle of choice around
here
they are front wheel drive they are easy to work on and the parts are
quite affordable and they seem to run forever (seeing 150k-250k seems
the norm for them and they still run great) I did see one guy who put
an
air bag system on which dropped the bed to almost within 9 inches of
the
ground that made it easy to load his ride .
Good luck and good ridding"
--
"Man who shoot off mouth, must expect to lose face."
- Confucious
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> sit that way for two
> | or three days. I rode it for a couple of days, and then
> noticed dripping
> | from the transmission case at the bottom of the bike. It
> is, of course, oil
> | mixed with gas that got past the carbs.
> |
> | I called my local motorcycle shop and set up an
> appointment for next week to
> | drain the oil and replace the oil and filter (good time to
> get a tune-up,
> | too).
> |
> | The motorcycle shop guy told me the bike was too dangerous
> to ride, and I
> | should have it towed it. He said that there was a danger
> of explosion.
> |
> | Now, I've got it sitting in my office building garage
> until next week when I
> | can get it towed to the shop -- my wife is driving me to
> and from work.
> | However, the dripping has stopped almost entirely.
> |
> | Is it really as dangerous as the motorcycle shop guy said,
> or would it be
> | okay to ride it on a 5-mile round trip the next week?
> |
> Must be something else wrong. I have left the fuel
> valve on various motorcycles on for days and never had that
> happen. However, my normal procedure is to turn the valve
> off at the end of the riding day. As for the fuel and oil
> mixture that resulted from leakage: I wouldn't ride the
> motorcycle anyway until you have replaced the oil and
> filter. I would plan on changing it again soon just to make
> sure you got it all once you are running again. The reason
> I wouldn't ride it has more to do with the contaminated oil
> than explosion, though I suppose that is a possibility. Why
> would you want to ride and possibly damage your motorcycle
> either way? Why don't you change the oil and filter
> yourself? -- steve
>
>