Subject: RE: rear drive question
Author: Greg Bender
Date: Jul 18, 2005, 7:36 AM
Post ID: 1719170476
Hi Ray,
Unless you are referring to the level plug (and I don't think you are),
I've got no idea what hole to which you are referring. Email the pics
to:
greg @ thisoldtractor . com
Ray Hale wrote:
I installed the rear drive the other day and tonight I filled it with fluid. The wheel is not on. I ate dinner and went back out to the shop and the fluid is dripping on the floor under the back of the rear drive. Looking at it from the port side of the bike, with a light and magnifier, I see where it's coming from. Yanked it off the swing arm and back on the bench, clean it up and look again. Picture this: Looking at the rear drive from the backside, with the sump pointing six o'clock, there's a bolt at about 4 o'clock. Just below this bolt there's a deep recess with a tiny little hole at the top way down there and that's where fluid is leaking from. Drip, drip, not pouring. Is this normal? Will the rear drive leak if wheel is off? The whole frame and powerplant is strapped to my lift and tilting downward at the rear, with the forks pointing upward, at about 10 degrees. Is this the problem? What's the little hole for? It's not a mistake type hole, but nicely manufactured into the drive. Very round and clean. I actually have pictures that I took with my Micro-Nikkor on the digital through a magnifier light, if anyone wants to see. You'd have to send me your email addy as I can't see it in Topica. Mr. Bender?? Anyone? Anyone? (pointing at the blackboard) Please advise as I'm balancing the wheels tomorrow and would dearly love to have a rolling chassis this weekend. It's a goal! Thanks Ray in Gainesville, FL pax sine tedio 73 Eldo "19" |
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Greg Bender
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