Sweet Exhaust Smell

[Rohr397]

Yesterday while out and about trail riding my buddy pointed out that my exhaust had a sweet smell to it. It's not two-stroke like just a little different than normal. I've had a hunch that somehow my quad is burning oil but nothing seems to add up.

When I bought the quad it smoked a little bit, it was a weird off-white color, but not really blue. At this time the exhaust was completely shot, no packing, holes in the can and the end cap was barely attached.

I replaced the silencer and it smoked bluish white for the first few hours. I expected that since it was a brand new exhaust but the faint trace of blue did throw me a bit.

Now the exhaust is broken in and I haven't seen a hint of smoke sense, however it was not more than a few hours before it started smelling funny.

All of the while my oil level has stayed consistent, I haven't lost a single drop of oil, and I check every ride to make sure of this.

I'm totally stumped. There's been all of these random symptoms of oil burning - none happening simultaneously - and my oil level is still at just a hair below full.

Anyone??? :confused:

[05DodgeDakota]

Might be your fuel or additives in the fuel. I know race fuel has a sweet type smell

[Rohr397]

Could be, I don't add any additives to my fuel but it may be a good idea to do so, the fuel quality is not good around here. It's not a race gas smell it's got that oil burning smell but I wonder if it's the crud they add to the 92 pump gas.

[quadracer556]

maybe its the synthetic oil??

[Rohr397]

I don't use synthetic oil, I've been considering it but I still run standard Honda 10w-40 right now.

[russellsroost31]

i run honda 20w-50 but i have that same problem with my 400 but it even did it with the stock exhaust
i know it burned the 10w-40 oil but mainly cause it had a little to much then it would stop

[TheAwesomehonda]

Originally posted by Rohr397
I don't use synthetic oil, I've been considering it but I still run standard Honda 10w-40 right now. Personally I think that the people over at honda know what oil is best for there motors. Thats why i run honda oil , Its more expensive then alot of other oils but i just think that i wont go wrong using the recomended oil.

[D3structive]

I think that honda tells you that you need to buy their oil so they can pad their pockets on their ridiculously overpriced oil.

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[TheAwesomehonda]

Originally posted by D3structive
I think that honda tells you that you need to buy their oil so they can pad their pockets on their ridiculously overpriced oil. Its not that over priced at $20 a gallon. Why what do you run and how much does it cost??

[05DodgeDakota]

Shell is 12 a gallon

[bullett]

Rotella. I think it's like 15 bucks for 5 quarts

[russellsroost31]

im not gonna buy honda anymore its just way to expensive
for a gallon of oil and a filter is like $30 when i can take the quad to the same place and have the oil changed for me and get the motor all checked up on is only like $20

[dxcody]

Thats not bad at all.

Do you know brian wolf russell?

He's from Medina too right?

[russellsroost31]

ive heard of him and i think ive even raced him at the local fair race

[TheAwesomehonda]

Yeah i don't think it will make much difference what oil anyone runs as long as it is made for wet clutch, which normal car engine oil isn't so you need to run a motorcycle/atv oil.