Love my '09 M8, except.......
I love the M8's, even my '07 now with the suspension mods as per Snotech. Love my '09 M8 except for the loading up. The 1st year I changed plugs every 200 miles to keep it running good. I know there's been several sleds like this, but it seems to be in the minority. Some think it is the oil pump. So I checked oil/fuel ratio and it was 36:1 which doesn't seem bad to me. My '07 runs at 32:1, slight loading up in certain situations, nothing I can't live with. I turned the oil flow down on the '09 to 40:1 which helped,but still not right. I change plugs at 400 miles now instead of 200, but I worry that it might be to lean at some rpms. So would like to hear what other people are doing about this. Don't really want to add oil to fuel tank, but may. If I do I was going to leave oil pump working as usual, but divert oil from going into cylinders back into oil tank. Anybody have any luck with changing oil pump? The 2010's are having the same problem, so getting a good oil pump sounds like a crap shoot. One local tuner said he got rid of all his sleds nonsense (overloading) when he added a Boondocker. Never the less I love this '09 and will continue to ride it for another couple years, see if Cat can get rid of this problem.
