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This week on “This old Bike” we are going talk about oil leaks and how is the best way to find them.
There is the left side of my bike with the cover removed. All that wet stuff is motor oil, it’s tasty, even on toast.
Right now we can tell that the leak is below the socket (That gear with the chain on it) because of the wet line.(notice everything above the gear is dry) That gray metal bar below that is my shifter, it’s hard to notice, but there JB weld globed onto it. I have no idea what they were doing there, but it’s not the best way to fix a crack, I can only assume that’s what they were trying to do. It’s on there so think I’m not sure what they were up to.
This is Scott going insane trying to remove the chair so that we can get a better look at the sprocket….Maybe he should at least be looking at the chain?
Maybe this is why the project is taking so long?
So after Scott and I’s hammer, and drill method of get the chain off the bike,(was a pain in the ass, buy the right tools if you do have to do this. ^^; ) we find that it takes a socket greater than 30mm to take the nut off the sprocket. That will have to wait till after I get the time to go and buy 30+mm socket.
Here is a little closer look of the leak with the chain off, I’ve cleaned up some of the oil as well.
Here is my guess…
Above is a layout of the gearing inside of the transmission, 40 is the sprocket that your looking on the other pictures. 38 is that silver plate behind the sprocket. 37 the oil seal I can’t look at yet, but I’m betting that it’s damaged and causing most of my leak.
I’d don’t see any other damage around that that could account for where the leak is.
The plan is to replace the parts 38 and 37 and see if this fixes most of the leak.
Scott and I’s theory is, when the rear axle was bent, it caused the chain to slip off the sprocket, this caused most of the damage we found as it came off at speed and started to grind against the housing. It hit the seal plate, the gear shifter, and outer housing(not pictured) causung minor cracking to that as well.
Right now the fix should cost about $20 in parts, unless I want to replace the housing then it would be $100. As the cracks are minor I'm not worried.
in other news we got our first swag on the refurbishing parts need for the forks, I’ll be ordering them on payday along with the oil leak replacement parts and rotors.
I hope to get the outer tubes to Candice this week so that she can have them anodize flat black for me. :)
Also the company that makes the Suzuki details is going to make me some templates that I can paint the logos onto the bike solving the issue as well.
Then it’s all the matter of putting it back together over the next few weeks. I’m guessing that it will be done by about the end of May now.
See you next time on this old bike!
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There is the left side of my bike with the cover removed. All that wet stuff is motor oil, it’s tasty, even on toast.
Right now we can tell that the leak is below the socket (That gear with the chain on it) because of the wet line.(notice everything above the gear is dry) That gray metal bar below that is my shifter, it’s hard to notice, but there JB weld globed onto it. I have no idea what they were doing there, but it’s not the best way to fix a crack, I can only assume that’s what they were trying to do. It’s on there so think I’m not sure what they were up to.
This is Scott going insane trying to remove the chair so that we can get a better look at the sprocket….Maybe he should at least be looking at the chain?
Maybe this is why the project is taking so long?
So after Scott and I’s hammer, and drill method of get the chain off the bike,(was a pain in the ass, buy the right tools if you do have to do this. ^^; ) we find that it takes a socket greater than 30mm to take the nut off the sprocket. That will have to wait till after I get the time to go and buy 30+mm socket.
Here is a little closer look of the leak with the chain off, I’ve cleaned up some of the oil as well.
Here is my guess…
Above is a layout of the gearing inside of the transmission, 40 is the sprocket that your looking on the other pictures. 38 is that silver plate behind the sprocket. 37 the oil seal I can’t look at yet, but I’m betting that it’s damaged and causing most of my leak.
I’d don’t see any other damage around that that could account for where the leak is.
The plan is to replace the parts 38 and 37 and see if this fixes most of the leak.
Scott and I’s theory is, when the rear axle was bent, it caused the chain to slip off the sprocket, this caused most of the damage we found as it came off at speed and started to grind against the housing. It hit the seal plate, the gear shifter, and outer housing(not pictured) causung minor cracking to that as well.
Right now the fix should cost about $20 in parts, unless I want to replace the housing then it would be $100. As the cracks are minor I'm not worried.
in other news we got our first swag on the refurbishing parts need for the forks, I’ll be ordering them on payday along with the oil leak replacement parts and rotors.
I hope to get the outer tubes to Candice this week so that she can have them anodize flat black for me. :)
Also the company that makes the Suzuki details is going to make me some templates that I can paint the logos onto the bike solving the issue as well.
Then it’s all the matter of putting it back together over the next few weeks. I’m guessing that it will be done by about the end of May now.
See you next time on this old bike!
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