Jwalt
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Bought this bike with 3,000 miles on it. I've only put on 600.
It sat a couple weeks over the holidays. Went out today and just kicked it over and let it warm up and noticed fluid dripping from the exhaust. It's green. Head gasket, cracked or warped head, cracked intake manifold, or cracked block.
Never ran it low on fluids, never overheated it or rode it that hard. I did drop it on the left side in a very slow lay down. It was one of those situations where I just miscalculated with a new bike and it was over too far for me to save it. Still more of a controlled lay-down than a drop and everything seemed fine for the four hundred miles since. A zero mph event. I got the engine turned off instantly.
I've put SW-Motech crash bars on it, followed directions to a T and used a torque wrench.
It's pumping out maybe a quarter of an ounce in just a few minutes, but the reservoir isn't even below "low". There were no white smoke or drips when I parked it just over two weeks ago. I almost wonder if a damaged gasket blew when I revved a cold engine? It's leaking out from the seam where the slip-on connects, so it's definitely coming from inside the exhaust itself. Seems to idle completely normally and smooth, although I'm sure not kicking it back on now that I found the source of the leak.
Honestly, devastated. I can't rule out that it may be due to the lay-down.
It sat a couple weeks over the holidays. Went out today and just kicked it over and let it warm up and noticed fluid dripping from the exhaust. It's green. Head gasket, cracked or warped head, cracked intake manifold, or cracked block.
Never ran it low on fluids, never overheated it or rode it that hard. I did drop it on the left side in a very slow lay down. It was one of those situations where I just miscalculated with a new bike and it was over too far for me to save it. Still more of a controlled lay-down than a drop and everything seemed fine for the four hundred miles since. A zero mph event. I got the engine turned off instantly.
I've put SW-Motech crash bars on it, followed directions to a T and used a torque wrench.
It's pumping out maybe a quarter of an ounce in just a few minutes, but the reservoir isn't even below "low". There were no white smoke or drips when I parked it just over two weeks ago. I almost wonder if a damaged gasket blew when I revved a cold engine? It's leaking out from the seam where the slip-on connects, so it's definitely coming from inside the exhaust itself. Seems to idle completely normally and smooth, although I'm sure not kicking it back on now that I found the source of the leak.
Honestly, devastated. I can't rule out that it may be due to the lay-down.