Sooty09
Registered user
Before setting off to the Alps I had my bike serviced. On the run down to Dover I noticed a strong smell of oil, at the ferry port I noticed quite a bit of oil seeping from the spark plug cover. I checked the oil and it seemed to be over full. Nothing I could do there so I carried on to Cambrai. By then a lot of oil was seeping out of the plug area.
I called in at BMW Lille and for 30 euro took the cover off, cleaned and checked it and fitted new gaskets. I showed them the oil level (IE no clear space visible in the oil window) and they said it was OK.
40 miles later it was leaking worse, at the overnight stop I lent the bike over to try gauge the oil leve and on returning it to the stand it rolled foreward and fell over. The puddle of oil under the bike was quite alarming.
We cut short the run to the Alps and returned to the Normandy coast. Over the next 850 miles it leaked constantly and only just started to show in the oil window.
Question,
Will overfilling the oil cause the rocker gaskets to blow?
Where did the large puddle of oil come from, no hole on rocker box and too much to have accumulated behind the spark plug.
I called in at BMW Lille and for 30 euro took the cover off, cleaned and checked it and fitted new gaskets. I showed them the oil level (IE no clear space visible in the oil window) and they said it was OK.
40 miles later it was leaking worse, at the overnight stop I lent the bike over to try gauge the oil leve and on returning it to the stand it rolled foreward and fell over. The puddle of oil under the bike was quite alarming.
We cut short the run to the Alps and returned to the Normandy coast. Over the next 850 miles it leaked constantly and only just started to show in the oil window.
Question,
Will overfilling the oil cause the rocker gaskets to blow?
Where did the large puddle of oil come from, no hole on rocker box and too much to have accumulated behind the spark plug.
