smoking

joey7478

My harley three wheel smokes like smoke stack. It has pretty good compression and I took the head off to check for carbon because it sat for several years. I didn,t put new gasket on could that be the problem. The muffler was pretty oily so I tried to burn it out don,t think that helped. Thanks Joey!

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nhrc01

whats your gas to oil ratio

joey7478

Not sure, My brother has a harley four wheeler and He mixed it up.

nhrc01

you need to be approx 60 or 80 to 1 my harley says 1 oz per gallon

joey7478

Thanks i'll try that Joey!

tew45

HD recommends 1 1/2 oz per gallon of gas. I have been using some Kawasaki 2 cycle oil and at 85 to 1 (1 1/2 oz per gal.) smokes badly. The Walmart 2 cycle oil I was using did not smoke very much so I switched back to Walmart 2 cycle oil today. I just filled the tank and didn't run it after. I will have to run it a couple of times or maybe a full tank to purge the old mixture but I know it will not smoke nearly as much as the Kawasaki oil. I have several quarts of the Kawasaki oil left so I will use it in my chain saws. The Kawasaki oil was surplus and maybe that is why. Any way 1 1/2 ounces per gallon is HD recommended!

smkummer

I just read this and was using old Kawasaki and Yamaha 2 cycle. Mine always smoked but ran well on those oils. I am now out of these and have some new to me outboard 2 cycle oil that I am switching to. We will see.

Ron Benedict

My 78 3 wheeler will smoke because unburned oil seems to collect in the muffler. When the muffler gets hot it will smoke like crazy until you run it about a mile and the oil is burned out and then it quits smoking. Ron

tew45

Smoking means too much burned oil and probably a lot of unburned oil. I have just refilled with a new gas mixture and after about 10 minutes smoking seemed to slow greatly. The supertech oil I have been using for years gives me very good service. No more Sakahaky oil again. I learned my lesson. Also running for 10 minutes was very hard to do in 20 Degree weather with no windshield. My wife still thinks the rings were bad was the reason it was smoking a lot more than it used to. 2 cycle or 4 cycle did not compute with her!

ckiguy

ivwe been with tew...ive only had my fatherinlaw run the wally world stuff, in his 67 after the rebuild, have had no issues, exept the muffler been drilled out1 he uses it as his work horse on a farm. beats the snot out of t! the 69 i redid runs pretty much the same. he mixes his fuel with seafoam per the directions too.