So I have been fiddling with Bonnie (my '00 savage) for a week tryin to get her to start up. Turns out I just needed to tighten up the connection on the ignitor box. Then this morning I fired her up to ride to work and she would not stop backfiring. After she warmed up she started to sound a lot better. I started the ride and on each de-acceleration there was a few loud backfires. It was not running like this before today.
Then about 3 miles from home I felt a warm liquid running down my leg. I checked and no I had not peed on myself.
Then I looked over the side of the bike and saw oil streaming out of the crankcase breather hose filter. I have removed my air-box and ran the breather hose over the top of the engine and back out the front so it sits right by my left knee. I have put 1000 miles on the bike since I removed the air-box and started running this setup and have never had a problem with oil finding its way out of the hose. I immediately turned around and limped home paying very close attention to the sound of the engine in case it started to seize up or run too hot.
I am clueless, any suggestions as to what the problem is or what the troubleshooting steps might be. I am almost to the point of total rebuild. I dont want to go that way because I just finished a rebuild 1000 miles ago.