Oil Leak, engine removal

[anotherxb9]

I knew the bike had a few oil leaks when I bought it. No big deal. Over the course of the last three hundred miles that I have put on the bike I have discovered that the entire rear of the engine is covered in oil. It is a slow leak, engine doesn't have to be running for it to leak. Now that has been covered I am thinking of removing the engine to go over it completely to replace any gaskets that will need to be replaced. I haven't torn into that bike at all. What is the easiest method to remove the engine? The evolution style engine is not a new thing to me as I had a Sportster before this and spent a lot of time working on it and replacing parts. Then again the Sportster engine was more out in the open to work on than the XB9 City X that I have.

 

[njloco]

They are known to do that if there is too much oil in it !

 

[anotherxb9]

The bike sat for a while because I didn't want to work on it. Had another bike to ride when I could so it sat. I got around to fixing it over Labor Day Weekend and the rear and front rocker box covers were leaking. I spent 4 hours cleaning all of the oil and grim off of the engine before reassembly. Did an oil change on it as well and back to riding it. I forgot how much fun that bike was. I used the sticky
http://www.buellxb.com/forum/showthread.php?37569-How-to-remove-your-xbr-motor
on how to remove the frame from the engine and it helped out so much. Couldn't have done it without this site.

 

[njloco]

Glad you worked it out.
Good luck with the bike.

 

[spymac]

Nice job!

And boy am I glad that sticky is there in case I need to do this.

 

[anotherxb9]

The one thing in there that I did that wasn't mentioned is to remove the rear exhaust O2 sensor with a 7/8 inch crows foot. It makes lifting the frame off of the bike so much easier with that extra clearance. You can get to it after you remove the electric fan.