All,
Last night I seen something interesting on the 850 owners facebook page. A fella had removed the heat wrap from the oil line that goes from the oil resvoir down to the crank case ( routing is near y pipe manifold) what he had discovered was that beneath the heat shielding on the oil line it had got so hot it was almost melted through. I am not sure but I am wondering if this could be a common issue relating to lower rod bearing failures due to starvation of oil from this main oil feed line melting. This may be a one off situation but this line is exposed to heat and I was shocked to see it melted beneath the factory heat shielding. Moral of this post is have a look from time to time to make sure the oil line is not melting on you. I do not have the photo it is posted on the 850 owners facebook page. I know I will be checking mine this weekend....