Well I just changed out the Oil & Filter on my 01 F4i and I'm having a little problem. I started it and let it run for a couple of minutes. The first minute everything seems fine... the High Idle is on and warming the engine up... However at about 2 minutes the RPMs start to go up (from about 2000 to 3000) and smoke is coming from the front end of the bike... I thought that the smoke may have been coming from some oil that I may have accidentally spilled on to the headers but I think I cleaned most of it up and am still having the problem. Has anyone else experienced something like this???

 

The revs are puzzling, not sure if an overfill/underfill will affect the idle. Oil on the header will smoke no matter how much you wipe.

 

I know what you did. I probably put in 4 quarts. The F4i needs only 3.5 quarts. If you overfill it, you will burn it out the pipe. Not good. Drain it out, and re-fill to 3.5 quarts.

 

Ok I will drain the oil out once the bike cools down some... about the Oil on the headers smoking... Is that just something I have to deal with until it goes away???

 

You shouldn't have gotten that much on it, it will burn off. Nothing to worry about.

 

i got the idea on here from another member but i wrape tinfoil around my headers when i change the oil

 

Tin foil? If you are careful, you shouldn't get much if any oil on the headers when taking off the filter. But if that works, cool.