Liquid in airbox???

ok i put up a post about 3 days or so ago saying i had a yellowy liquid in my airbox and i went out in the garage today after putting my bottom hose onto my #4 carb 3 days ago and now the fluid built up in the box enough to start leaking out the box door. Is this like an oil over fill thing or what because it's kinda worrisome to me and has just started happening after putting new oil in the bike

 

The oil breather of the clutch breathes in to the air box. Did you check your oil level while on the center stand on a level surface? Too much oil will cause the hose to spit up oil

 

Did you accurately measure how much oil you put in there?

 

it says to do roughly 2.5 bottles when putting oil in after just emptying the oil and that is what i did so maybe there was more left in than i thought. how would i go about removing some?

 

yellow liquid ? woooh dude, maybe you have someone that doesn't like you

 

well i think we established it could be water from a wash/oil. i think me and the gang figured it was old man jenkins thanks to scooby. just gotta empty some oil out now somehow!

 

First off...what bike, and the hose you attached to the carb....was it from the airbox?

Water from a wash, or anything short of submersion, should not be able to get into the airbox.

 

2.6 quarts WITH an oil filter change. Did you change it? If not the oils deff overfilled. Can you not see the oil level through the sight glass? there should be a small air bubble at the top. I over filled mine and I simply drained some out through drain plug until it was in specs through visual inspection of sight glass not the cleanest way but it worked for me

 

it's a 1983 seca 900 and theres a smaller gauge hose on the bottom of the airbox that i was told connects to the carbs and it was just a oil over fill on my dumb part since im still new to bikes it was a rookie mistake. i took a syringe and some hose and cleaned it off then sucked some oil out till i could see it in the sight glass. it's all good now but that hose on the bottom of the air box still baffles me to as where it truly does go so ill just keep it attached to the carbs like i was told to do so by my cousin unless you guys have a different say so

 

The small hose off the bottom of the airbox is a DRAIN and hooking it up to a carb, even though it may have originally been as some sort of emissions solution, is not such a good idea. Just let it hang down; you don't want to pump that crap back into the motor to try to burn it.

The big hose going into the airbox is indeed the breather; not just the "clutch breather" that is the crankcase breather. When first started, you WILL pump a certain amount of moisture-oil mist mix up the tube; small amounts are normal. If the bike is kept outside or gets ridden in the rain it can pick up enough moisture to condense out when you first start it again.

Double-check your air filter and ensure it hasn't become fouled by this little episode.

 

is it safe to use a hose past the airfilter and risk it sucking air and particles up in it into the carbs for a drain? i did check my air filter and it looks fine.