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So I have a couple oil leaks. What's that you say? Isn't that how you tell you still have oil in the bike?
Sigh.
Leak One I think I have fixed.
This is the stainless line from Oil Britts. I had kept tightening it down the last couple years and I think that was too much.
Here's the aluminum washer that was on it. A wee crushed. It had gotten so thin that the banjo bolt was actually bottoming out and then the oil could just find it's way out. Fresh washers (from Home Depot no less) seems to solved it for now.
But I've still got drips so…
Leak Two is still getting me.
This is an oil passage that is drilled and sealed at the factory. If I recall, when my brother had the engine he slapped some JB Weld over it but I think that's starting to fail. Any suggestions here? Chip off JB Weld and reapply? Something else?
Thanks!
Sigh.
Leak One I think I have fixed.
This is the stainless line from Oil Britts. I had kept tightening it down the last couple years and I think that was too much.
Here's the aluminum washer that was on it. A wee crushed. It had gotten so thin that the banjo bolt was actually bottoming out and then the oil could just find it's way out. Fresh washers (from Home Depot no less) seems to solved it for now.
But I've still got drips so…
Leak Two is still getting me.
This is an oil passage that is drilled and sealed at the factory. If I recall, when my brother had the engine he slapped some JB Weld over it but I think that's starting to fail. Any suggestions here? Chip off JB Weld and reapply? Something else?
Thanks!