[help] Uh oh, this can't be good

 My Dnepr just coughed up a fluid ounce or so of creamy, frothy
white stuff that smells like burnt oil and looks like vanilla
milkshake (but doesn't bring all the boyz to the yard. Mebbe
Kilis could teach me... but she'd have to charge).

It seemed to have come out of a vent with a plastic cap.
Could anyone give me a clue what's going on. The motor isn't
seized (yet) but the boyz are waiting.

SQ

 sean_q wrote:

Sounds like oil mixed with condensed water , coming from the crankcase .
Warm it up *thoroughly* then change the oil . If you've been doing short
runs in this cold weather , the motor probably hasn't been getting warm
enough to boil out the condensates and combustion blow-by . That stuff mixes
with the oil to form that cream-colored frothy emulsion - which is very bad
for your motor .

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Snag
Learning keeps
you young !

 
sean_q wrote:
| > My Dnepr just coughed up a fluid ounce or so of creamy, frothy
| > white stuff that smells like burnt oil and looks like vanilla
| > milkshake (but doesn't bring all the boyz to the yard. Mebbe
| > Kilis could teach me... but she'd have to charge).
| >
| > It seemed to have come out of a vent with a plastic cap.
| > Could anyone give me a clue what's going on. The motor isn't
| > seized (yet) but the boyz are waiting.
| >
| > SQ
|
| Sounds like oil mixed with condensed water , coming from the crankcase .
| Warm it up *thoroughly* then change the oil . If you've been doing short
| runs in this cold weather , the motor probably hasn't been getting warm
| enough to boil out the condensates and combustion blow-by . That stuff
mixes
| with the oil to form that cream-colored frothy emulsion - which is very
bad
| for your motor .
|
Concur ....
It is the voice of God telling you to ride it more

 Vito wrote:

I wish now that I'd put 10W40 in mine last time I changed it . 20W50 is a
bit stiff at freezing temps .
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Snag
Learning keeps
you young !

 | I wish now that I'd put 10W40 in mine last time I changed it . 20W50 is a
| bit stiff at freezing temps .
| --
A Minnisota boy bought a new FLH (Shovel Head) in 1979.  That spring he had
to "do a top end".  Ditto the next and the next, despite switching to single
weight 50 like all his buddies recommended.  They too refreshed top ends
annually, adding to H-D's myth of unreliability.  Then one day he talked to
a chemist where he worked, started using multi-grade like H-D recommended,
and never looked back.