oil coming in the air filter

[waynerid1]

this is in behalf of a friend of mine that has a 2005 road king that has only 15000 miles on it that all of a sudden he's getting alot oil being taking into his air filter through the breather tubes , now i know having to much oil in crankcase can cause this by experiencing this myself, but that was checked and he put 1500 miles on it since last oil change and never added a drop of oil and it just stared doing this , anyone ever had this problem?

 

[DK Custom Products]

this is in behalf of a friend of mine that has a 2005 road king that has only 15000 miles on it that all of a sudden he's getting alot oil being taking into his air filter through the breather tubes , now i know having to much oil in crankcase can cause this by experiencing this myself, but that was checked and he put 1500 miles on it since last oil change and never added a drop of oil and it just stared doing this , anyone ever had this problem?

Could be the oil pump on it's last leg. Kevin

 

[msocko3]

Could be the oil pump on it's last leg. Kevin

:Agree: Maybe a tensioner shoe failed taking out the scavenge side of the pump, or the crank might have shifted and took out the pump. I'd open the cam chest up and check check things out.

 

[waynerid1]

Could be the oil pump on it's last leg. Kevin

but it has good oil pressure

 

[pcombe]

:Agree: Maybe a tensioner shoe failed taking out the scavenge side of the pump, or the crank might have shifted and took out the pump. I'd open the cam chest up and check check things out.

:Agree:

 

[msocko3]

but it has good oil pressure

If you damage the scavenge side of the pump you will still have oil pressure. The Twin cam oiling system is a dry sump, the pump has 2 stages, a pressure side and a scavenge side. The pressure side obviously pumps the oil from the oil tank through the engine. The scavenge side pumps the oil from the cam chest area back to the oil tank.

I'd open that cam chest and inspect the oil pump, cam tensioner shoes and check the crank run out. One of the down sides of the 99 - 06 engines was the cam chain tensioners. You never knew when they would fail. Some guys had them fail with as little as 10,000 miles, I've replaced them in engine with 52,000 miles, you just don't know. IMO they should be inspected periodically since they are a wear item.

 

[FLTR2008TRIKE]

If you damage the scavenge side of the pump you will still have oil pressure. The Twin cam oiling system is a dry sump, the pump has 2 stages, a pressure side and a scavenge side. The pressure side obviously pumps the oil from the oil tank through the engine. The scavenge side pumps the oil from the cam chest area back to the oil tank.

I'd open that cam chest and inspect the oil pump, cam tensioner shoes and check the crank run out. One of the down sides of the 99 - 06 engines was the cam chain tensioners. You never knew when they would fail. Some guys had them fail with as little as 10,000 miles, I've replaced them in engine with 52,000 miles, you just don't know. IMO they should be inspected periodically since they are a wear item.

:Agree::Agree::Agree:

 

[waynerid1]

If you damage the scavenge side of the pump you will still have oil pressure. The Twin cam oiling system is a dry sump, the pump has 2 stages, a pressure side and a scavenge side. The pressure side obviously pumps the oil from the oil tank through the engine. The scavenge side pumps the oil from the cam chest area back to the oil tank.

I'd open that cam chest and inspect the oil pump, cam tensioner shoes and check the crank run out. One of the down sides of the 99 - 06 engines was the cam chain tensioners. You never knew when they would fail. Some guys had them fail with as little as 10,000 miles, I've replaced them in engine with 52,000 miles, you just don't know. IMO they should be inspected periodically since they are a wear item.

thanks he might have to look into that