sounds like a blown head gasket, with (because you continued riding it and overheated it) could have warped the head. I'm not sure what the head on bikes are made of, but if it's aluminum against iron, it's not unheard of for them to warp that bad.

hope it's something cheap and easy though!

 

doggy is def alum on alum I doubt any top of the line bikes have heavy cast iron blocks. but yeah I had two 636's put 22k miles on both seperately and I never had coolant leakage problems except my 04s brittle radiator, I would be head gasket scared, man if you took out your plugs you should have checked compression ( If even with just your finger to make sure its there) that would rule out head gasket. Did you mention if it was smoking or NOT?

 

yea it was smokin a lil. exhaust end looked like oil though

 

hey you guys i got the gasket on and it isnt leaking anymore but i am still getting oil coming out the exhaust and my first cyclinder still wont fire. it is gettin spark tho. so i dunno what the deal is. and its not oil in the air box cuase i did the KLEEN System. please help
Nick

 

you replaced the valve cover gasket? that's not even the same thing as the head gasket.

if the head gasket is leaking, that requires a tear down to replace...it doesn't have to be leaking externally to be leaking.

also, why when people have problems with their bikes they decide to just let them sit in teh driveway and idle for 20 minutes? i know a few people that have done this, i don't understand teh reasoning. If that's all it took you would see a fleet of bikes outside of a mechanic's business just idling

 

scary too, with minimal/no wind flowing thru the radiator


we sat in a buddies supercharged 93 cobra one night smoking blunts with the car running @ idle to keep the ac on.. after about 45 min the head gasket was tossed.... oops!