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Bound

Bound

2014-04-17 18:46:00 UTC

As the topic suggests, my SD has a small oil leakage. It's located right above the side-stand but it's not much, it seeped a little bit on the exhaust pipe but nothing could be found on the ground.
It seems to be coming from the gear sensor, anyone now if that's hard to fix ? If I open it up there will there be a lot of oil coming out or is it relatively harmless to change the sealing there ?

Any help on this would be much appriciated.

No. 47

No. 47

2014-04-17 22:42:00 UTC

It's a dry sump engine so most of the oil will be in the oil tank up front.

Dirt bikes, which is really what this bike started as and came from can be laid on their sides to be worked on without much oil loss.

Wrap some rope around the front brake lever to act as a parking brake. Put the transmission in gear for additional braking.

Turn the bars to full lock for a left hander. Do a SWAG where the bar end elevation will be before hitting any other hard parts and find something stout enuf to hold the bike up on the bar end. Concrete block comes to mind. Cover the floor for the spill with a drain pan or ??

My SWAG is you loose less than a cup of oil.......or just wait to fix it when you change oil next.

SWAG = Scientific Wild Ass Guess

Bound

Bound

2014-04-17 22:46:00 UTC

It's just your gear sensor switch seal - no big deal.