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Originally Posted by scottrc88
thanks for the advice folks. if its normal for a bit of oil to be in there, doesn't that mean that the paper in the air filter will absorb the evaporating oil and effect air flow?  |
No, it wont evaporate and even if it does get into the filter it'll just help with filtering dust as the dust particles will stick to the oil[1], if the entire thing was soaked in oil it might affect it but even then not for long!
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Originally Posted by Stonesie
"Don't bother... some oil in there is normal."
Mine is bone dry in there, oil level is at Max too.
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Depends on how you ride it and the condition of the engine, cane it, have blowing rings or fall over and you'll get plenty!
Basically the crankcases are fed into the airbox, when the engine gets hot and there is a lot of oil movement you get oil mist that ends up re-condensing in the airbox (the idea being to re -condense it and feed it back to the engine but not all makes it and ends in the airbox).
Druid
[1] This is the theory behind the K&N 'oiled' filters.