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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: MikeW on October 26, 2015, 05:32:19 PM
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I had one of those "oh s##t" moments recently.
The main seal in the Le Mans had been weeping for a few months so I finally bit the bullet one weekend and pulled the engine out.
Imagine my surprise when I pulled the sump off to discover a good layer of mayo in there. The only saving grace was that it was too thick to go through the oil strainer. Took a few years off I can tell you. My hair would have gone white except my kids did that to me years ago :laugh:
Now it hadn't that long since the last service so this was a fairly recent event.
Needless to say I flushed out the breather system and it was completely jam packed with thick chunky snot :embarrassed:
Mike
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Don't know if the 1000 has the same head breather hoses as the 850 LM, but they are mayo generators; I removed mine and blanked off the heads and breather box at these hose connections.
My main crankcase breather goes to a catch bottle behind the battery and so far is mayo free. I've also just had the rocker covers off and done an oil change...no mayo.