Last night I was out riding with my boys and I pulled up a sit down in 2nd gear. I rode it out till I hit the rev limiter. As soon as I set it down the bike starts smoking like crazy out of the exhaust. I come to a stop and there's oil leaking all over the bottom, back, and left and right sides of the engine. The front is clean. My friend tells me that oil got in the air box hence all the smoke. This makes sense but I don't understand why there is oil all over the place. I took the bike home and cleaned up all the parts on the bike that were covered in oil. I then took it back out and cracked more wheelies. No more smoke and no more leakage. What gives? Anybody ever run into this problem before? Any help would be greatly appreciated. The bike is an '05 Kawasaki ZX-10.

 

hhmm well the oil in the air box and smoke makes sense but it should have just leaked out the drain tube not all over the motor

 

That's what I'm saying. This **** has got me perplexed.

 

perplexed...lol

 

I wanted to ride it today but it's raining so I'll take it out tomorrow and hopefully there will be no more problems. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

check your oil level you may have way to much oil in it,the most i would fill it is just barely to the top of the site window with the bike perfectly straight up on two wheels

 

thats odd man i rember my bike had an untraceable leak like that turned out to be a crack in one of the seals ha i took my bike a shop in my town and they didn't know what to do with it they couldent find the leak it took suzuki dealership to take apart the whole engine to find it

 

that happend to me once and it turned out to be a small hole in my oil filter. funny thing is that when the bike was under idle it wouldnt leak. so i would take it for a ride and i would come back with oil all over the damn bike. the funny thing was it would not spray until the rpms were higher. damn thing had me stumped for a minute. but this would not cause smoke to come out of your pipe!

 

You rode it out till It hit the rev limiter and now you are perplexed

 

dammm for that to happen u must have been way back there or have to much oil, before the frame on my zx10 took a **** i was doing 12 o'clocks and that never happened to me

 

if he rode it out til rev limiter he wasnt way back there

he was chasing that bitch

 

^^^true^^^

 

Thats funny cuz I rock wheelies all day on mine. And have never had any issues with the oil light coming on or oil in the airbox. Quit power wheeling it till you hit the rev limiter. I always keep the rpms real low under 5k most of the time

 

Sick^^^

 

i think you scraped your fin, careful how are you gonna fly away without it??

why the **** do they make the stock license plate brackets look like it belongs on a rocket or something

 

****** killer pic OCC. the fountain and building with the real pretty garden in the background really makes it scenic.

 

its a hospital

but sick *** pic

 

lol, a pic of a looped wheelie in progress would have been ironic.

 

haha exactly what i was thinking

 

Have U Had Any Problems With The Frame On Your Zx10