Thread: Oil Leak
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Old 13-Sep-2013, 17:07
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Originally Posted by Spjallen
Bernie, the chief scrut was talking about this subject only a few meets ago. He believes that a BSB meet was cancelled at Brands due to this bolt coming loose on a 848 bike - and accordingly they were thinking of making us wire lock that bolt as a safety feature. I think the Brands BSB meet was abandoned because the oil just couldn’t be cleared up satisfactorily.



The 848 was a different problem although caused by the same bolt, it was running a dry clutch conversion & in that situation the oil way needs to be blanked off with a different bolt! They used the wrong one & the oil pressure blew out the oil seal in the clutch rod.
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