Oil on Air Filter

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Oil on Air Filter

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What can oil on an air filter mean?
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Re: Oil on Air Filter

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It’s oil vapour from the crankcase breather. Nothing to worry about
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https://ibb.co/cNpzmn

I dont think that this is vapour, in some places its kinda still liquidyish
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That air filter needs replacing. It looks filthy let alone the oil
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Okay, i can see you make a good point haha, il do that, and see if its gonna occur again.

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So i changed it to new, and theres a little bit of oil in the air filter corner, its coming out from the breather hose
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Re: Oil on Air Filter

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Thats normal.

You may however need a new oil seperator as its should be splitting oil and vapour and only blowing oily air back up
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