cousin crashed, oil spilled, smoke bad?

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kyles r6

Discussion Starter · May 24, 2006

i was in the left lane and he was in the right lane behind a cage. the 2 lanes become 1 because the right lane is blocked by parked cars. anyways this bitch on the phone starts to come over, didnt signal or look over. she was half way into my lane when i honked and she swerved back over, she was approaching the 1st parked car and slammed on her brakes which meant my cousin had to too. she had atleast 20 ft before she hit the car...anyways he locks up the front brake and goes up on the front end, i guess he paniced and put his hands on her trunk and jumped off. the bike went completely upside down like you were changing a tire on a bicycle. he got it back up but there was oil leaking, probably like a 1/4 quart. he started it up and it was smoking like hell, he let it run for like 7 mins to burn off the oil and it did for the most part but it looked like oil and coolant mixed cuz it was coming out of the exhaust.....where the header and mid pipe connect, mid pipe to muffler and the the tip of the muffler. his entire rear fairing is tilted to the left and he thinks the front is to. could there be any possible internl damage to the engine?

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AwwsChwA

· #2 · May 24, 2006 (Edited)

If the engine stopped running during all this, there is probably no damage.

Was the oil you saw dripping down from the top of the engine? I ask that because what most likely happened is, when the bike flipped over, the oil in the oil pan all dripped into the combustion chambers through the piston rings. From there it went up into the carburetors and intake runners, and also into the exhaust runners. That's why the bike was burning so much oil. Nothing to worry about as long as the engine didn't hydro-lock (which yours didn't), it just smokes for a while. As I said, assuming the engine stalled and didn't run without oil, it should be fine.

As far as coolant, you should never have coolant and oil mixing, and coolant should not have ended up inside the engine at any time. The cooling system is a closed system except for the overflow canister which is outside the engine on the clutch side of the bike next to the engine. If you're sure there was coolant in the exhaust system, you have bigger problems to deal with and I'd check everything over very carefully for pressure and gasket leaks.

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ronjeremy6

· #3 · May 24, 2006

what color is the smoke?

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kyles r6

Discussion Starter · #4 · May 25, 2006

bright white which i though WAS coolant....black = oil and blue= piston rings.

yes the oil was dripping from the top and im not sure if it stopped or not because he was behind me and i took a left turn not knowing what happened.

as for the coolant im pretty positive it was oil and coolant mixing because i know cars and im a diesel tech and it looked like a moacha color.

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pesticide

· #5 · May 25, 2006

Did you get in her face and scream to "HANG UP THE [email protected]#KING PHONE!"?

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kyles r6

Discussion Starter · #6 · May 25, 2006

well at the end of the street you could only turn left and i went about 4 blocks down and still didnt see my cousin or the bitch in the car so i turned around and when i got back she was still on the fucking phone!!! and when i got off my bike she took off. i guess all he got was an apology

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AwwsChwA

· #7 · May 25, 2006

kyles r6 said:
bright white which i though WAS coolant....black = oil and blue= piston rings.

yes the oil was dripping from the top and im not sure if it stopped or not because he was behind me and i took a left turn not knowing what happened.

as for the coolant im pretty positive it was oil and coolant mixing because i know cars and im a diesel tech and it looked like a moacha color.

No, white smoke can be oil, too. A friend of mine had an oil problem in his car and it billowed fluffy white smoke. I've also seen oil burn bluish, though. If you've got black smoke, that probably means you're running rich and you've got a ton of carbon being produced.

Keep in mind that hte water you saw in the exhaust may have been just the water that forms during combustion. One good way to tell if you've got coolant and oil mixing is to open the radiator and check, and also drain the oil and see if there are beads of water in it.

I know cars too, I'm ASE certified

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