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    Slabbie wheels ?

    in Oil Cooled

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    Won a pair of 750 slabbie wheels on the bay of eeee last week. Travelled down to Somerset yedterday and picked them up in the pissing rain , just been taking a closer look at them , spot the obvious mistake

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    Katana oil leak

    in Air Cooled

    Posted

    Turned out to be just a poorly fitted rocker cover gasket by a previous owner , was hanging out  on the inner part above spark plug  no.2.

    Then ran down the holes in the fins and dripped off the ns head fin on the side stand.

    All good now tho.

    Did the valve clearances too, been out a couple of times and nice and dry again :)

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    Katana oil leak

    in Air Cooled

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    12 hours ago, Joseph said:

    Nope. It's your bitchbag attitude that got you the type of reactions you got.

    But i'll answer your question again :

    if you have a leak at the headgasket area, it's probably mainly because the headgasket has failed.

    Surely you're able to realise, that even IF the O rings have failed, it cannot realistically result in the headgasket leaking, IF said headgasket is in solid condition.

    Eitherway, you still need to fix all the top end.

    But@no classvery nicely gave you the same albeit less detailed reponse earlier, so be nice and go buy a top end gasket set, and just fix your bike like everyone else in your situation has done before

    Please see arttu's concise reply , actually gave reasons rather than an ignorant tirade .

    Cheers puddy  :)

    Katana oil leak

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    5 hours ago, Arttu said:

    Actually the o-rings on center head nuts don't have anything to do with pressurized oil. There are deep(ish) bores for the nuts on the head and bottom corners of these bores go through the casting to outside of the head. And o-rings prevent oil leaking past the nuts. So when the o-rings fail oil starts weeping out. It leaks out from next to the middle exhaust ports but it easily looks like it's coming from the head gasket joint. If you clean the mess carefully and check again after a short run you should see where it's actually leaking.

    Btw, what the heck is 97 GSX1100SZ? Just to make sure we all are talking about the same animal...

    Absolutely excellent reply. I am a motor vehicle mechanic of 40 years , so not green behind the ears. I can see exactly why an internal part would like an external oil leak now 

    Thanks a million 

    Puddy  :)

    Katana oil leak

    in Air Cooled

    Posted

    On 4/24/2022 at 10:26 PM, Pudzrx said:

    Hi , my 97 gsx1100 sz katana has developed what looks like an head gasket oil leak on the lhs. I have read that the o rings on the centre head nuts can fail and do this also. How does that happen ehen they are under the rocker cover? 

    Cheers puddy 

    Ok , seems I have upset a few with a simple question,  how does an internal oil leak show as an external leak ?

     

    Katana oil leak

    in Air Cooled

    Posted

    Thanks for the reply , but how does that show up as an external oil leak ?

    And I  said I  do not always use oe gsskets , obviously odd sized oe o rings are a different matter .

    Cheers puddy 

    Katana oil leak

    in Air Cooled

    Posted · Edited by Pudzrx

    Thats not what I asked , yes it could be headgasket obviously,  but I have read that the o rings can make it look like hg leak , why ?

    And I tend to use whatever gaskets I like , not just oe , thanks 

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