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Originally Posted by Garyhjd
Check to see if any oil comes out, if none does then your good to go. If you get oil run the starter for a few seconds to clean the oil and and button it back up and off you go.
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It depends. These statements are true only under certain conditions.
If no oil comes out that's good news
only if the accident happened recently enough for the oil to still be sitting in there. (For example, when somebody knocked my '01 Tiger over in the mud last year while it was parked at an auction, I was able to trailer it home and check for oil that same afternoon before I tried firing it up again.) If the spill was weeks or months ago, or if the engine has been cranked over since it happened, this sort of test may tell you nothing useful now.
Also: Clearing out the combustion chamber of accumulated oil is only a sufficient solution
if the engine was
not running at the time of the tipover
and has not been cranked since. In the case of the one U.P. is looking at, it was running. If oil got sucked into the chamber then, while the other cylinders were still pounding away, any possible damage has already been inflicted.
