My buddy rode my 04 vinson a couple weeks ago and he decided he had to have one. On friday he went and picked up a limited edition vinson with the automatic, we noticed while starting to break it in that it seems very under powered and also it has a significant amount of gas in the oil. Anyone had this problem? But anyways it is going back to the dealership tomorrow. It obviously has something wrong with it from the factory.

 

bought mine 5 or 6 weeks ago. i absolutly luv it. i have 80 miles and 10 hrs on it and no problems so far. took it to mud bog saturday and no problems. i hope your buddy gets his straitend out. get r done

 

Check if the fuel petcoch is turned to ON or RES not PRI. If on PRI it will continuasly feed fuel to the carb,, which it could then overun into the bore and get down into the engine. Probaly low risk of that but it could happen, ive seen similar things, and it could find its way in some other path. It should be hard to start if this is happing from the "flooding" factor but ya never know. Some 05 vinsons have a recall for faulty petcoch assembly, this might be causing some of the probs.

 

Well the float overflow should be taking care of excess gas as it shouldn't be pulling gas through the jets w/o the engine running (google bernoulli effect). The oil from the factory has a "gassy" smell to it and it's a slight shade of green. This is break-in oil and it's normal. As far as being underpowered it will build up in power as he drives the bike. Unless he absolutely abused the motor (meaning runnning it hard before it was warmed up, riding at the same RPM for a long time, or revving the ssss out of the motor in neutral). I'm a firm believer in running new motors hard, but keep the rpms varied, don't be hard on it before it's warmed up or redlining it in neutral. However he could have gotten a bum motor but I highly, HIGHLY doubt it.