I have a question. My exhaust on my zx600e is smoking after running for a few minutes. I think it might be piston rings but I can't be sure. BTW the smoke doesn't smell like radiator fluid.
The E bike will throw smoke on startup but in fact it's not smoke although it looks like it. It's water vapor and very standard for these bikes to do this for the first several minutes warming up. If everything is normal that vapor "smoke" will stop after 2-5 minutes and you will not see it anymore while warm. Is this your experience? This also used to worry me when I was an early user of my E. My other bikes would not do this.
Not quite my experience. The bike sat for 13 years and I had to take marvel mystery oil and soke the pistons to get them loose. I'm thinking that it might need to be broken in again.
Well, you likely have oil in the combustion chamber at least and just need to burn that out. I did a piston ring replacement and lots of gaskets in a '78 Honda CB400A. It smoked quite a bit for the first couple hundred miles. It calmed down and eventually went away after 300+ miles or so
What size rivets you need to replace please
I have a question. My exhaust on my zx600e is smoking after running for a few minutes. I think it might be piston rings but I can't be sure. BTW the smoke doesn't smell like radiator fluid.
The E bike will throw smoke on startup but in fact it's not smoke although it looks like it. It's water vapor and very standard for these bikes to do this for the first several minutes warming up. If everything is normal that vapor "smoke" will stop after 2-5 minutes and you will not see it anymore while warm. Is this your experience?
This also used to worry me when I was an early user of my E. My other bikes would not do this.
Not quite my experience. The bike sat for 13 years and I had to take marvel mystery oil and soke the pistons to get them loose. I'm thinking that it might need to be broken in again.
Well, you likely have oil in the combustion chamber at least and just need to burn that out. I did a piston ring replacement and lots of gaskets in a '78 Honda CB400A. It smoked quite a bit for the first couple hundred miles. It calmed down and eventually went away after 300+ miles or so