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[Beezabryan]

Seeing the breather pipe so oily and now you say your oil tank emptied over a 3 week period makes me wonder if you have a wet sump problem, something that is discussed occasionally here.

[Alan R]

Hi Ralph---- can you help me out here with some of your terminology which---being an old "Fart" I don't recognise/understand ie }--- "bay of the bike"------"Spraydown" -----and "I sprayed it up". Please don't take offence, it's just me still getting over the loss of Empire etc. Thanks.(Big smiley face !!)

[bologne]

Hi Alan, it's not so much you not knowing terminology as me not knowing how to describe properly! --- When I refer to spraying, I simply mean that due to the amount of oil over the lower half of the bike I had it jet washed, as to see if I could ascertain where the oil was coming from. --- In regards to the "bay", I really had no idea how to refer to this, but the pool of oil you see in the picture that sits in a dip behind the engine, that! Sorry about that...

[Alan R]

Cheers matey !!----------Ah, all is crystal clear now ( which for a myopic, squint-eyed git like me, and wearing pebble-lens glasses, is quite a revelation, I can tell you !!!). If you have lost almost the entire oil contents whilst the bike was stationary for 3 weeks----and presumably not started in that time ----- then that does sound like severe wet-sumping BUT, where did it all go to ?? ---- it doesn't just "Disappear". Have you removed the drain plugs under the engine to see if anything came out at all ?? I tend to agree with the view that says the breathing is not right. I, and quite a few others, have our hosts dipstick breather mod. fitted which to my mind is worth the spend....can you fit a clear pipe in place of the existing crankcase breather and run the engine again just to actually see what's going on in there ???

[Beezabryan]

I might suggest removing the crankcase drain plug and leaving it to drain for half a day & see what comes out............quite a lot I would surmise..........replace drain plug, top up oil to half way on dipstick..........Go for a ride & let us know what is the result.