88 Venture oil/carb probs

[Eagle_eye]

i have an 88 venture just got it, have oil coming from carbs.

i think i know what it is, can someone verify for me what they think it is.

Thanks

[Marcarl]

Your crankcase is more than half full and you've sucked oil into the breather, happens if the crankcase is too full. Drain the crankcase to half full, clean the breather and airbox and then run some cleaner or seafoam through the tank to clean the carbs.

[Venturous Randy]

Make sure when you check the oil level that the bike is on the center stand and don't go over half full on the sight glass. Oil in the carb area is common if you are running too much oil.

Welcome to the forum and hope you consider joining. It will be the best $12 you will ever spend on your bike.

RandyA

[Yammer Dan]

Make sure when you check the oil level that the bike is on the center stand and don't go over half full on the sight glass. Oil in the carb area is common if you are running too much oil.

Welcome to the forum and hope you consider joining. It will be the best $12 you will ever spend on your bike.

RandyA

 

 

 

YEAH ALL THAT!!! Boy these guys are good.....

[Eagle_eye]

thanx for replies so quickly, it was to full and i cleaned air filter snd put seafoam in it and ran it for a while but the exhaust pipes started glowing and sparks came out the back and the bike would idle around 5000rpms which is way too high any more suggestions

[Yammer Dan]

Just a thought. Pull mufflers and see if they are full or pluged. Could be out of time but I wouldn't think so.

[Squidley]

thanx for replies so quickly, it was to full and i cleaned air filter snd put seafoam in it and ran it for a while but the exhaust pipes started glowing and sparks came out the back and the bike would idle around 5000rpms which is way too high any more suggestions

 

The idle adjustment knob is on the left side (sitting on the bike) under the lower carb bracket inbetween #1 and #2 carbs. If your pipe started glowing then just as Dan mentioned, pull it off and check to make sure it isn't blocked up.

[Marcarl]

thanx for replies so quickly, it was to full and i cleaned air filter snd put seafoam in it and ran it for a while but the exhaust pipes started glowing and sparks came out the back and the bike would idle around 5000rpms which is way too high any more suggestions

Could out of timing, not likely, but I might check to make sure the plug wires go to the correct plugs, the ones coming from the back coils go to the back plugs. High idle could be a very bad sync, where one carb is holding the others open, so it could be running on 3 with the one carb closed off. If that is the case, then you'll have vacuum very high on one carb and hardly nothing, or nothing at all on the others, so to start with you'll have to adjust the high vacuum carb down first, then go at the others.