Oil blowing out of the side of engine?

[ian]

(bike is a 1997 super four)

After doing the shims and putting the bike back together, I went for a test ride. When I got back though, I realised my left foot, and left side of the bike - were coated in engine oil!

It seems oil has been blowing out of the hole in the picures below:








Does anyone know the purpose of these holes? the other side has one, which is fine - as they were before I did this work.

Some sort of breather perhaps? When rebuilding the cams the lubrication probably over filled the oil.

Cheers

Ian

[amorti]

They are there to let water that gets into the spark plug recess out. So either you have a spark plug on the LHS that isn't tightened correctly, or you didn't seat the rocker cover gasket correctly, or it's split.

Damn I'm good. Next!

[ian]

cheers for that Amorti,

will check it out

Ian