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Old 25 Mar 2011
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Yes! sorry about that, I think I must have been thinking of the filter oil in the air box (if I was thinking at all!)
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ah i think it must be over oiled after a bit of research.

i didn't think it could be the air filter before as i remember it suddenly started running rich before the rebuild during a bit of off roading. i thought i had maybe damaged the carb when a stick got lodged in there but i had probably just got the filter wet in big puddles.

now its just rich from too much oil... i hope
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well, i thoroughly cleaned the oil from the air filter and it still ran rich.

then i tried opening the side cover for the airbox and it ran very lean,

then i put the cover back on and took the filter out and found the plug didn't look sooty but the exhaust outlets did.

any ideas what the smoke coming out the airbox is?
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Are the breather(s) from the crankcases routed to the airbox, usually are these days to reduce pollution.
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yeah, i've worked out the smoke is coming from the crankcase breather tube. why would that happen?
its been rebored, new piston and rings etc,
its not burning oil,
its not over filled with oil

also could the smoke from the breather be causing it to run rich as its filling the airbox and stopping fresh oxygen coming in?
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Is it smoke or condensation? If it was me I think I'd run it in as is, keep it steady and get some miles on the engine. The way I used to check mixture was to get the engine good and hot then give it a good, throttle to the stop, thrashing along a long straightish, slightly up hill (very quiet!) lane, when flat out in top I'd pull the clutch and hit the kill switch, stopping with a dead engine then whip the plugs out (burning fingers) and adjust the carbs to what I found. Looking at the plugs when you haven't thrashed it doesn't really tell you much. Rolling roads have superceded this method
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thanks for the help so far.

not really sure exactly what it is, it doesn't smell very nice though.

i took it for a long ride today and its still smoking/misting from the breather.

the iridium spark plug looks quite white at the tip of the insulator but the rest is black and sooty but not as bad as before, the exhaust outlets are also sooty but not as much as before
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