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[baroquenride]

I have a Dunlop Sportmax 110/80/18 front tire that came off a friends bike. It's a street tire that has a bit more life left and now that we're getting into the rainy season around here, I'm wondering if I could put this on my rear wheel? Will it work being narrower than the 140 the book calls for?

[J Banning]

Just changed the oil in this 2006 610 and found these large pieces of metal on the drain plug and large screen filter (sizable and very course, like very large pieces of sand). The paper filter and small screen were clean though. The bike runs fine and has no engine noise. It has approx 5k street miles on it and never raced or abused. I pulled both side covers and everything visible there looks fine. Won't know more till I tear it all down but till then does anyone care to guess where this metal is coming from?

[xymotic]

Originally Posted by J Banning

Just changed the oil in this 2006 610 and found these large pieces of metal on the drain plug and large screen filter (sizable and very course, like very large pieces of sand). The paper filter and small screen were clean though. The bike runs fine and has no engine noise. It has approx 5k street miles on it and never raced or abused. I pulled both side covers and everything visible there looks fine. Won't know more till I tear it all down but till then does anyone care to guess where this metal is coming from?

Most likely culprit is the spring washer cup things on the clutch. They suck real hard (that's a technical term)

[K7MDL]

Take a good look at your reed valve cover next to the lower end of your cam chain. Double check by looking at your cam chain tensioner, might be 10 or 11 clicks out by now. The cam chain acts as a chain saw and grinds off the reed valve and cover edge, and one of the screws for it. It can also take out some aluminum with it.

Originally Posted by J Banning

Just changed the oil in this 2006 610 and found these large pieces of metal on the drain plug and large screen filter (sizable and very course, like very large pieces of sand). The paper filter and small screen were clean though. The bike runs fine and has no engine noise. It has approx 5k street miles on it and never raced or abused. I pulled both side covers and everything visible there looks fine. Won't know more till I tear it all down but till then does anyone care to guess where this metal is coming from?

[xymotic]

ok, so My bike's been leakin' oil for a while. I haven't ridden it in several weeks, and there's a decent puddle under. the thing is, it's been doing this the better part of a year, I haven't ridden it hardly at all, and yet it's still 'full' in the sightglass.


What happens if you grossly overfill a 610? Cuz that's all I can figgure I did... It seems like it's leaking from the top screw above the kick-start plug, which seems like it should be WAY above the sump level.

Tomorrow's project is to pressure wash it, and talc it up and finally find out what's happenin, but I am starting to wonder if I'm like; Jed Klampett and discovered a endless source of oil.

[Taranis]

Air filter excess dripping out of the air box?

[J Banning]

Originally Posted by xymotic

Most likely culprit is the spring washer cup things on the clutch. They suck real hard (that's a technical term)

Thank you xymotic. I have the engine out and on the workbench and will take a look.

[J Banning]

Originally Posted by K7MDL

Take a good look at your reed valve cover next to the lower end of your cam chain. Double check by looking at your cam chain tensioner, might be 10 or 11 clicks out by now. The cam chain acts as a chain saw and grinds off the reed valve and cover edge, and one of the screws for it. It can also take out some aluminum with it.

Thank you K7MDL. I'll take a look at the tensioner and if the chain is wearing against anything. There was no unusual engine noise though (like I've heard on other bikes with loose cam chains) and the metal in the oil is magnetic.

[nathan8315]

Originally Posted by Taranis

Air filter excess dripping out of the air box?

My 610 does this. I bought the bike new and when I took the air filter cover off you could see where the air filter oil worked its way down to the front part of the filter and was dripping on the engine. It happened again when I replaced the filter, but not as bad. A couple weekends ago I cleaned the filter and reinstalled it being careful to not over oil it. So far I haven't had the oil dripping, but will see after some more riding.

[xymotic]

Originally Posted by Taranis

Air filter excess dripping out of the air box?

Maybe, it's in the right spot for that, but it really looks thinner, the puddle is a good foot wide and it's been doing it for the better part of a year. I don't *think" I drenched that filter that bad but I guess it'd be easy enough to just take it out and clean it and see if the dripping stops. Thanks for the idea.

[1 lunger]

Originally Posted by xymotic

Maybe, it's in the right spot for that, but it really looks thinner, the puddle is a good foot wide and it's been doing it for the better part of a year. I don't *think" I drenched that filter that bad but I guess it'd be easy enough to just take it out and clean it and see if the dripping stops. Thanks for the idea.

Xymotic I'm sure you know this, but for others that might not use this method, hanging the filter in a plastic bag over night to get the extra oil to one side and make it easy to squeeze out with help solve the over oiling of the foam filters.

[Xcuvator]

Originally Posted by xymotic

ok, so My bike's been leakin' oil for a while. I haven't ridden it in several weeks, and there's a decent puddle under. the thing is, it's been doing this the better part of a year, I haven't ridden it hardly at all, and yet it's still 'full' in the sightglass.


What happens if you grossly overfill a 610? Cuz that's all I can figgure I did... It seems like it's leaking from the top screw above the kick-start plug, which seems like it should be WAY above the sump level.

Tomorrow's project is to pressure wash it, and talc it up and finally find out what's happenin, but I am starting to wonder if I'm like; Jed Klampett and discovered a endless source of oil.

That would be alot of oil alright Jed. You might have Jethro take the fill cap off and tip the bike to dump oil till you see it in the glass.

[xymotic]

Originally Posted by Xcuvator

That would be alot of oil alright Jed. You might have Jethro take the fill cap off and tip the bike to dump oil till you see it in the glass.

It fills the glass about 3/4 or so. never seems to drop. I slacked on the whole 'do work on it' thing. Maybe next week I'll figure it out.

[Xcuvator]

I had oil dripping out of my filters when I used NoToil. After I switched back to real oil there was no more dripping.

[1 lunger]

I use No-Toil and hanging it in a bag is a must with that stuff! I like the fact that its easy to clean, but not sure if it works as good repelling water?