V climbling hill = white smoke
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V climbling hill = white smoke
I went to Winchester Bay Oregon for the first time this weekend. Great place to ride.
Anyway I was climbing Banshee hill which is really steep and long. At the top of the hill I looked back and noticed my exhaust was smoking. Once I leveled out it stoped.
I think maybe riding at that angle for the ~60 sec it takes to climb it may be rolling the oil back into the rear cylinder. What else could it be?
Has anyone else seen this?
Anyway I was climbing Banshee hill which is really steep and long. At the top of the hill I looked back and noticed my exhaust was smoking. Once I leveled out it stoped.
I think maybe riding at that angle for the ~60 sec it takes to climb it may be rolling the oil back into the rear cylinder. What else could it be?
Has anyone else seen this?
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V climbling hill = white smoke
Yep that's right .. if it was oil getting into the combustion chamber you'd be seeing blue smoke ..
Did you get a smell of the exhaust?? If coolant is getting into your combustion chamber, it will smell kinda sweet. Hopefully it's not a split head [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img] that wouldn't be good. Most likely a head gasket like Newbeatle said ...
Did you get a smell of the exhaust?? If coolant is getting into your combustion chamber, it will smell kinda sweet. Hopefully it's not a split head [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img] that wouldn't be good. Most likely a head gasket like Newbeatle said ...
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V climbling hill = white smoke
Mine likes to do this too. I only notice it if I do a wheelie for a long distance. That puts the front end up at a similar angle to what you are talking about. It is a thick form of smoke and clears right up when I let it sit and run level for a few seconds... I was guessing it was coolant getting in there but from where??? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]
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V climbling hill = white smoke
I didn't think about it, but KEVINM is right, there is that little sediment bulb at the bottom of the Prairies filter box ( I assume there is one on the Force ), it is in front of the carbs on my quad, if there was moisture in there, a very steep hill could cause that to run out & be sucked into the carbs... It should only happen once though, if this happened repeatedly, it is unlikely that that would be the cause...