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Blow-by on a brand new motor... questions.

Maybe they just over-filled it in set-up.

If it spewed from the air cleaner, the above is my bet. HD instructions were off on my Sportster. If filled to spec, it would spew. But that was a carb. Unsure how return to an FI bike is handled. Same?
 
mototireguy said:
Honda motorcycle owner logic sometimes gets lost in translation when applied to the Harley world.
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So much this.

And apparently he ignored the part where I said I have a great relationship with the dealership or that I didn't ask anyone what they thought I should do.

Honestly I don't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks I should do in this situation.
 
Beauregard said:
Dennis it's a 2013 FXDB 103" with 34 miles (Hard Candy Custom): http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Motorcycles/street-bob.html

HD is putting a new top end in it and putting in writing that should any problems arise in the future that can be linked to this they will fix them- for the life of the bike and for free. When I'm face to face with the service manager Tuesday I'll get the lowdown on what happened. My guess is a poorly seated ring.
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Glad you're getting treated well. Awesome that they stand behind their repair.

My initial thought was the gaps in the rings were lined up on the piston and not properly staggered, but that's covered in engine building 101...

Anyhow, hope you get many happy miles on that hard candy Dyna!
 
Beauregard said:
So much this.

And apparently he ignored the part where I said I have a great relationship with the dealership or that I didn't ask anyone what they thought I should do.

Honestly I don't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks I should do in this situation.
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Well then I think you should sell it and get an F4i :party

A yellow and black one. Y2k to boot :x

Hi Beau :wave

Sorry, just in a bit of a mood for causing trouble :rofl
 
Beauregard said:
If that's the case I'll demand a brand new 110" motor.

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Here's a pic, thirty four miles on the brand new bike- fourteen miles from the dealership. Notice the color of the "oil" on the ground.
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Is it oil or did your paint start melting off ? :teeth :laughing
 
Beauregard said:
LOL.

No I didn't. And to be perfectly honest I braced myself for a bunch of Harley bashing intermingles with jeers from the Japanese crowd- so really I got off easy.
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LOLOL, I was just going to post, where are the Harley bashers?

I always joked that my Harley had a magnetic fender option to catch the bolts that vibrated off. But yours is upgraded, with the color coordinated, oil catching, fender and tank option.
 
I had some good ones thought up... But you don't kick a man when he's down. Too soon for a brand new purchase but I'm sure you'll get shit for it here and there in a couple months from now.

Glad it's working out for ya and I agree with not burning bridges with a dealership that you are otherwise happy with.

Now what I think you should do is get yourself a 12 pack and go to the lake till they get her fixed up.:thumbup
 
Looks to me like it was overfilled with oil.
 
Ok...So Beau if I were you I would.....




:laughing glad you have a great relationship with a shop. Many don't know that that means sometimes you get great lemon-aid! When I worked at a shop, I loved customers like you and would go above and beyond when the not so great occurred.
 
i thought u asked for what we would do and then said you dont care what we would do.

get that new fanglered indian biker
 
Beau, I'd say it's potentially a combination of factors.

Improper oil level (too full)
Bad/faulty/leaking/overly saturated breathers.

I doubt it's "sumped". Most sumped motors that I've dealt with don't make it down the block or even out of the parking lot before it overflows.

That being said, I've seen some strange stuff from H-D straight off the truck. We had a new bike going through the initial set up process that wouldn't stop putting smoke out of one the mufflers. Turns out the oil rings on one of the pistons were upside down. "Scraping" oil up into the combustion chamber rather than down into the crankcase. I guess it's a little bit of the law of averages. When you get 30-ish new bikes/week (over 1500/year), you're bound to find one or two with some problems. That's why new vehicles get inspected/set-up at the dealership.
 
Your problem is that you bought a brand new bike with no miles. You can't make money from that deal, and it wasn't proven out and upgraded for you. This is god teaching you a lesson.
 
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