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PLEASE READ BEFORE ASKING A QUESTION!!! I CAN ONLY ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT HARLEYS !!! I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT OTHER MODELS!!! I have a Harley only shop with 30 years experience located in Ohio. We specialize in complete and total repair, restoration, hi-performance, and custom bike building. I can work on Flat Heads to Twin Cams. Please, dont ask how much somthing is going to cost to fix. Labor prices differ all over te country as well as shop to shop!

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Motorcycle Repair - ss eng


Expert: Mike Wells - 12/14/2008

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s&s on a 2002 indian spirit. has set for a couple mos. tried to start after several attempts noticed eng oil coming out of a tube located on the back on eng near the bottom. is this some sort of crank case relief? maybe self siphoning?

Answer
That is the vent for the bottom end of the motor. What happens is the oil tank probably weeped some oil past the check valve in the oil pump. It goes into the bottom end. When you go to start the bike, oil comes out the vent, due to the oil pump cant pump it back fast enough. Whne you get it started some oil might come out, but it will stop when its pumped back
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Mike

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