Hi all, got a 2012 s touring (LOVE IT!) but have noticed theres a milky substance on the glass and also a bit on the inside of the oil filler cap. Havent been using her as much as i should be lately, maybe 20 miles once or twice a week at 40-60mph. Getting really paranoid about the cylinder head problemead: Can someone please take me out my misery Jimmy
Don't worry....I thought the same when I had mine. They all do it as you'll read on here if you do a search and the Ducati mechanics will tell you the same. Mines all cleared up now, possibly through giving it a good run on Sunday and now the weathers warming up! Misery over!
Lack of use , short trips , condensation building up in crankcase .... lots of models suffer with this
Thanks for the quick replys guys, should be taking it for a run to wales this weekend so hopefully that will get rid of it
Air conditioning of you man cave will solve this problem. Without it your bike will fail within 10 miles.
Take it for a blast to get it hot. When you get back take off the oil filler cap and put somewhere where you can't forget it. Let it cool down before putting it back in and 'Hey Presto!!'the milkiness disappears........and so will all your oil if you forget to put it back in!! Trust me... I know
£14k bike, get it hot and it won't happen wtf that's absolutely ridiculous. I have bikes from the 60s which I don't have this issue and are used a lot less! Does every ducati do this I think most definitely not. Would you say it is normal if you had emulsifying oil in your ferrari?
If you stopped and started a Ferrari throughout the winter in a cold garage and never got it up to temp properly how do you know that that wouldn't suffer with emulsification on the filler cap ?, the low mileage 100 grand Bentley continentals that I work on that hardly do any work suffer with some emulsification on the filler caps
Its a non issue if its present or not given the amount produced. It's just chemistry. I am sure it's present in most engines to some degree when presented with the same conditions, you just can't see it.
I've always thought that if the oil light stays on for more than 5 seconds cut the fuel pump. It would have saved thousands of engines over the years (mainly female drivers*). *I know one women who did three engines in one year and many other lumpy jumpers who've killed engines. But only one bloke.
I had this last year over winter when I thought I was doing the right thing by starting her up on occasion - never again - been fine this year - did need a new battery though....
Oil will do this in all engines, even 60's engines, except they mostly didn't have an oil level sight glass for you to see it. It is simply moisture from condensation in the engine, or that gets drawn into the engine on cool down, then getting absorbed by being churned into the oil. This happens when the oil does not get sufficiently hot to evaporate the water content its holding. As other have said, its usually an indicator of infrequent and little use (starting and running the engine over winter, 'just to keep the battery in good condition and keep things turning').
