Best way to flush out a motor with water in the oil

[bbluesilver]

[Aussie Steve]

Having never had this issue I cannot say if there is a particular way. I would tend to pop out to Kmart and buy four five litre containers of cheap oil....making sure its not friction modified... and then use all of them to do multiple oil changes with ten minute runs in between. Finally a new filter then a final oil change.

I cannot fathom how a rusty starter and gear system would be responsible for water in your oil I would also be making sure that any fault that allowed this to occur is fixed before any other work.

The starter and gears will need attention too but I am sure you already figured this out.


Good luck

[Batfink]

You could try this before you drain.....

http://www.liqui-moly.com.au/products/en...plus-2784/

Available from Supercheap

[busarat]

[Batfink]

I was gunna say in cars I would use the diesel truck too... But dunno how it might effect clutch pack?

[Iceman_2770]

Are you sure it's oil? Not to be smart but I think they use a white grease in the starter motor. Might just be a little of that grease escaping.

[busarat]

Good call iceman,must stop drinking and reading.is the engine oil turning white ???if yes go as previous if not and only in that housing just wipe clean with rag and try again

[Maj]

Probably a bit of condensation , go with the wipe out and continue as planned
if the oil has noticable waterl in it , find out why , then just drain and replace filter
if your not introducing more any small amount of water will evaporate out with a good ride

[bbluesilver]

cheers, the grease/oil in the housing was pretty white, so yes you might be onto something there.
the oil that I drained was a lightish brown colour, so guessing it has a little water in there somewhere.
no leaks or anything around the motor, all looks pretty clean.
Was thinking of just doing the flush, putting cheap oil in, run it a little. drain it, then good oil and filter

[Aussie Steve]

Lightish brown doesnt sound like water to me...water will turn milky white....your oil sounds like it is fairly new....usually turns black after a short while...post a pic?

[bbluesilver]

Yes, i should of took some pics, but kind of emptied it out unfortunately.
Definitely has some water around the starter motor housing, just finished cleaning the area up and noticed some clear water droplets in behind those stack of gears that mesh with the starter motor gears.

The oil that i drained had a few streaks of white in it.

Might get some of that Liqui Moly engine flush that batfink suggested.

Only other sign i have found was the needle roller bearing on the starter motor was rusted and seased.

It had a set of tires put on it about a month ago and got them to do an oil/filter change at the same time.
They never mentioned anything about water in the oil, just wondering if when they washed the bike down they forgot to put the oil cap back on or something funny.