My 2016 F3 Limited locked up on me & it was because it needed more oil - does not use oil & had been serviced. Locked into 1st gear & would not start. Got a new battery. Friend got it started & didn't realize you had to have the bike hot to check the oil level. He added oil & it finally started. Now it sounds like there are marbles in the transmission. It makes a noise when I slow down like the gurgling marbles going on, & there is a dragging kind of feel when I left off the gas, then it stops doing that & the marbly sounds start. It happens on the left side nest to my left foot & leg. It's not just when I'm coming to stop though, it's also when I shift up or down & when first starting it up & moving in 1st gear. It happens no matter what gear, but only happens when I slow down. Could it be the sprocket, loose bolt, belt, or what? I'm going to take it to the shop before I ride it again because I don't want it to lock up on me riding at 60 mph in the mountains with no phone service. Ok, that's the worset that could happen, I guess.
That certainly could be the sprocket, but if you haven't already removed the excess oil that your friend added, then I'm sorry, the sprocket thing
isn't the worst thing that could happen, not by by a long shot!! :yikes:
Too much oil in a modern engine with fine tolerances that mean it doesn't normally use any oil, like the Rotax ACE 1330 motor in your F3, can be
really damaging to the engine &/or gearbox!! You need to get any excess oil out ASAP!!
A smidge over the Full mark on the dipstick shouldn't be too bad, but anything much more than that could be drastically bad! :shocked: Maybe you should cconsider draining
ALL the oil out before refilling it with a little less than the recommended amount (if it's had an oil & filter change recently, then there's no real need to remove the filter/s, but you'll hafta reduce your refill qty a bit more to compensate for the oil still in the filter/s!) so that you can safely run it for a while & top it up later if necessary. Remember, especially if it's been run recently, then any oil showing above the Low level on the dipstick means there's going to be enough oil in there to safely run/ride it for a while, even if you shouldn't plan on heading off on a couple of hundred miles of riding like that! So you should be plenty safe enough to ride it around gently for 30 mins or so &
then check the oil level properly before topping it up as necessary. :lecturef_smilie:
So I'd suggest that you check that you haven't got too much oil in there
before you start worrying about/searching for other issues; and don't forget that these 1330 cc things do sorta sound like a half-filled can of marbles at idle anyway. Besides, now that you're worrying about it, every little thing will sound drastic, even if it was always like that before! So sort the oil level properly first, to make sure that's not causing those things you're concerned about before you start worrying about/looking for anything else. After all, a stripped spline on the drive sprocket is a bit of a moot point if you first blow up the engine &/or trans cos it's been over-filled with oil!
