brianRM250

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Mar 14, 2007
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Hi Guys,
I'm not sure what to do here and I'm hoping someone could guide me in the right direction.

I have an 03 RM250 and lately it's been smoking and spraying oil all over the rear fender and fouling out plugs about every 8 hours of riding. Riding yesterday all of a sudden I noticed the the exhaust started to smell differently...real sweet smelling and puffing more smoke. I looked in the radiator and it was brownish with oil rainbows in it. Did i blow some gaskets? If so, I am assuming I shouldn't ride it anymore until i get it fixed.
 

Ol'89r

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First place to look would be your head gasket. If the head gasket is good, check your water pump seals. The sweet smell and smoke is most likely coolant.
 

snb73

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Sounds like a head gasket. You appear to have a leak between your cooling system and combustion chamber. Taking it apart and inspecting is the only way you'll know for sure.

Good luck, Steve.
 

brianRM250

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Mar 14, 2007
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Well i went to the local shop and they told me it's not a head gasket but two rubber o-rings. Bought those for $4.00 came hope and took the head off. The ones that were in there were dry rotted and corroded. So i cleaned everything up and put the new ones in. I sprayed some wd-40 in the cylinder so it wouldn't be dry when i started it. When i fired it up it smoked out the neighborhood. I have to go take it for a ride to see if it fixes the problem.
 


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