Subject: RE: Oil Leak-Follow Up and More Frustration!
Author: Keith Ruff
Date: Jun 11, 2001, 1:14 PM
Post ID: 1707074176
Upon another inspection, the oil is weeping out of the seal between the
cases, not through the vent hole or vent tube. Looks like the drivers
side bottom bolt on the case may be stripped and not torque-ing down,
just spins. This should not be since the Guzzi shop just did a bunch of
work to the tranny and had the engine/trans out.
In addition, was on the way to my auto mechanic with the Guzzi, he works
on bikes too -he is going to check into this whole gen light problem for
me. On the way to the shop, the gosh darn return spring on the shifter
must have busted again!! This is what started the whole deal with the
tranny problems several months ago. I noticed when doing a U-turn that
the heel-toe-shifter never came back up to center from the heel, so I
pushed the toe portion to center it and had to do this the rest of the
way to the shop in order to shift gears. Shifted fine outside of
manually having to bring the shifter back to center. I'm pretty pissed
about this as I was down to basically fixing the gen light ordeal and
doing nothing more than paint touch up for cosmetic purposes. Now I
have the gen light problem, an oil leak that I hope will not require the
engine and trans to be re-removed to fix a stripped bolt, not to mention
the possibility of taking the trans apart again to fix the busted return
spring! I told my mechanic to give Mark at MG Classics a ring - Mark,
think it was you that mentioned you don't have to remove the trans to
get to the return spring? Something about removing the rear plate and
putting her in 2nd gear? Will wait to hear from my mechanic with the
verdicts on all 3 of these problems. Just when you think you've got
everything all set up and ready to run, crap like this pops up. TELL ME
IT GETS BETTER THAN THIS, PLEASE!! I'm losing patience with Patience
(the name I have given this 71 Ambo) Quick! You may see her on e-bay
soon! Not sure how much more of this I can take! I want to ride, not
keep her in the shop all of the time!
OK, I'm off my soapbox now, thanx for listening......
Keith Ruff
71 Police Amabassador - NJ
Zerhackermann . wrote:
| A couple drops is normal. Anything more than a silver dollar sized mark and I'd look at replacing the crankase vent valve. I just went ahead and placed the ball check valve in the crankcase.
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