Ramair + crankcase pressure = blown cam cover gasket?!

So, having the old air box will work? Or does the vacuum not equalize without intake input?
 
Nothing is needed beyond the filter below the stock air box. The R3 is designed in a way that precludes excessive crank case pressure if you bike is still naturally aspirated.

The only way I would even think it's remotely possible is if you had very worn rings allowing excessive blow by, by that point you'd have much more obvious symptoms than a cam cover gasket leaking (like blue smoke out the exhaust and oil consumption).
 
I also have this problem But it is not the ram air as I did 25000km with the ram air I also hat tune boy and K&N pods with the breather on the box and had no problem after over 50000km.
I have 202HP at the wheel and all I have done is Race pistons and cam,s and tune with Jardine exhaust.
I did a hard ride with the boys and she started to breath .
When we put the cam,s and pistons in the compression test read 210 on each pot but now she is reading 225 front 205 middle and 210 back .
It is strange the front has gorn up the other 2 back ones are not a problem with that reading
If it was a fractured piston you would not get a high compression reading so we ruled that out as well.
So I think a oil ring could of gorn .
We are going to strip her down in 2 weeks when I get home and change the rings and bearings.
I will get back to you once its done and see if it fixes the problem.
 
Nothing is needed beyond the filter below the stock air box. The R3 is designed in a way that precludes excessive crank case pressure if you bike is still naturally aspirated.

The only way I would even think it's remotely possible is if you had very worn rings allowing excessive blow by, by that point you'd have much more obvious symptoms than a cam cover gasket leaking (like blue smoke out the exhaust and oil consumption).
Im not getting blue smoke that is why I recon it is the oil rings and the compression is still up were it should be .
I will give ya the heads up once I change the rings and brings .
I ride the big girl hard , not trying to brag but I have sat on 180km all day and some times touching 260 and the big girl hasten let me down .
she has just clicked over 90,000km but since the last rebuild was 30,000km ago and she only breath once I am over 180km and hasn't lost power as we put it back on the dino.
I should of left it at 173 HP with the street cams, especially as I doo a lot of long KM rides.
HP is a grate addiction rho a .
 
So, having the old air box will work? Or does the vacuum not equalize without intake input?

It still should not breath out the box as I had the same ramair on and did a 8000km ride in 6 days and was giving it a flogging and wasn't breathing when I got home.
The only thing she did was brake the drive shaft but that is the same one that I had for 10 years.
She went at 170km check out the pic,s
 

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It still should not breath out the box as I had the same ramair on and did a 8000km ride in 6 days and was giving it a flogging and wasn't breathing when I got home.
The only thing she did was brake the drive shaft but that is the same one that I had for 10 years.
She went at 170km check out the pic,s
Dang, I'll bet that thing beat itself to death with vibration when she came apart!
 
Dang, I'll bet that thing beat itself to death with vibration when she came apart!
Because its in the swing arm it just vibrated for a about 500 meters then made a hell of a racket till I pulled up.
so I would suggest check it after every 30,000km and if they feel worn replace them .
Triumph will sell the whole shaft for $600 but get hold of a drive shaft mob and you can get just the universal cross for $75 and change out your self .
 
First I've ever seen of an R3 snapping the driveshaft!

A wile back when I was backing it into the shed I could here a scraping noise which I thought was the brake calliper rubbing on the disc but
the uni joint must of being dry .
The swing arm is easy to take off all you need is a tenchen wrench that has 15Nm to reset it .
Take the brake calliper off and leave the back wheel on and it just rolls out.
Its worth keeping an eye on it .
I also run a 225 car tyre on the back and get 20,000km out of it .
$210 for the car tyre instead off $465 and get 7000km.
 
I'm getting ready to replace the cam cover gasket on my 2013 R3R (same oil leak issue at the front right that many of you have mentioned). I have a service manual and new gasket and bolt seals. The service manual also mentions replacing the spark plug tower seal, but when I attempt to find a plug tower seal in the Triumph parts catalog, it lists one for some other Triumphs but not for the R3R. Also, are there any other parts I need to have on hand before I start this project? (I have about 7,300 miles on the bike, and I'm not planning to adjust the valves at this point.) Thanks!
 
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