Your 04 Electra Glide does indeed have a wet clutch. Your primary case holds between 36 - 42 ounces of oil. Stand the bike straight up. Remove the derby cover from the primary cover. The oil level should be just up to the bottom edge of the outer clutch shell, the shiny aluminum ring. Do not over fill as the clutch will drag and you will not be able to get the transmission into neutral with the engine running. Now you said that you have oil coming out of the breather tube. What breather tube? The transmission has a breather tube but that's the only one. Your engine's crankcase breathers are located in the heads and exhausts the crankcase pressure into the air filter. This is required by the EPA. After a while, oil mist will build up in the air cleaner cover and begin to drip out. You have to clean this out from time to time. Your transmission holds 20-24 ounces of oil and you fill it through the chrome end cap on the transmission on the right hand side of the bike. There is a plug that takes a large hex key or Allen wrench to remove. It has a dipstick on it. With the bike standing straight up, the oil level should be between the two lines.
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Steve
It's a 1984 Shovelhead. Now, that's a different story. Yes, you have what Harley calls a "dry clutch". It isn't exactly dry as everything in the primary, and this includes the clutch disc, is lubricated by an oil mist provided through a small diameter hose coming off the top of the oil pump. No, I would not disassemble everything. I'd let it sling the oil out by itself. I'd take the plug out of the lower bottom of the primary and drain all the oil out of it. The engine does **** the oil out of the primary back into the engine if your bike is still set up in it's original configuration. This means that you engine is now overfilled with oil. The engine will "****" the extra oil out of the breater tube underneath the bike. Once everything achieves it's proper level, this should stop. I wouldn't take everything apart until I absolutely had to. I think it'll clear up but I can't swear to it. I've never had this particular problem before. Good Luck Steve
yep first year block - evo so the breather was just doing what it was suppose to do but now i got gear lube and oil mixed so change it after a good warm up? and how do i adjust it? no first gear or very hard and adjusting clutch arm isn't helping , have only done this on cold bike
thanks Peter
No, If it's an Evolution, you do indeed have a wet clutch. The early Evolution engines had the old Shovelhead type clutch but they were wet clutch disc. Does your bike have a four speed ****** or a five speed? If you have too much oil in it, the clutch will drag and you will not be able to find neutral with the engine running and you'll probably have shifting problems as well. An Evolution engine does NOT **** the oil out of the primary. Look underneath the primary at the lowest point on the backside of the inner primary. Is there a hose coming out right there going back to the engine behind the oil pump? On an Evolution engine, there shouldn't be. If you bike is puking oil out of the engine breather tube, it's because it has "oil sumped" from sitting for a while. Since the oil tank is located higher in the frame than the engine, the oil will seep past the check ball and build up in the bottom end. When you start the engine, the scavenge gears in the oil pump cannot pump the oil out fast enough and it is blown out of the breather tube. Go tohttp://www.bikebandit.com and look up a drawing of your bike under OEM parts. Contact me directly at [email protected]
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it keeps coming up 2004 its an 84 and it has ten springs so it's a dry clutch correct? i sucked the oil out of the primary and now i guess i need to dismantle and wash everything before i do anything else.....
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