[tcb] Re: oil leak
- From: Stephen Brannan <ozarkcycleworks@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:39:41 -0800 (PST)
The plate can warp and eventually leak if all the nuts aren't there. When you
clean the screen you should never remove the studs from the case. Especially
since one of them holds the oil pick up tube in place. There should be nuts on
studs not screws into the case. On something that gets turned as much as these
oil screen bolts the nut should turn on the stud and not the stud in the case.
The case material being softer wouldn't last as long and you would be breaking
the strong bond between dissimilar metals when you change the oil. Do you have
fixed studs or screws?
Christopher Dirksen <cajun-eskimo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From oil leak to oil change, I changed to oil in the eskimo and was
planning to change out the fluid in the Reduction boxes and trans but once at
pep boy's I could not find strait 90 weight where do you guy's get you gear oil
from? Oh yea another big thing was the "noise" I had after a 5 minute ride with
Sawyer saturday it turned out to be the speedometer cable rubbing the sleeve
and with a couple drops of super lube I believe the "noise" vanished. Thanks
Mark! I continue to build a list of need items to get old eskimo going strong.
Eric have you bought the rivet gun yet? Ha-ha maybe we can work something out
"go half's" or something. Still need to fix the latch on the small front
window. OK hope everyone had a good weekend.
Oh yea one other thing is that I found one of the screws stripped on the
plate holding the oil screen do you thing extra teflon would hold it and
prevent oil leaking? Looked tight enough from the other bolts to prevent
leaking but it may end up that I'll need to re size the hole and place a larger
screw in it, any ideas?
Cajun Eskimo
Christopher Dirksen
I plan to post Emily's Christmas party pic's on the www.cajun-eskimo.com
today! Thanks Em and Mark
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From: "Brian Denning" <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] oil leak
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:58:27 -0600
>so i lowered the motor yesterday to fix the oil leak on hershey. had
>a hell of a time trying to pull off the fan shroud, tried calling
>denis for help but he wasn't home. finally removed the one damn bolt
>keeping it in and it came out but not with ease. man you would be
>amazed at all the oil around the cooler. so i start to remove the
>bolts on the stand. one of them twisted off, and the other two, well
>i can't get to them. then i decide to remove the three bolts that
>hold the cooler onto the stand...scratch that make that the two
>bolts that hold the cooler onto the stand. yea that's right, i found
>the problem, evidently there was a bolt missing. guess the mechanic
>only put it together half ass. yea, i was the mechanic. so now i
>have to take the damn stand off to get that one bolt out. i bought
>new cooler seals for it also. well i guess the good thing is that he
>won't leak any more around that area when i get done. more on it
>later.
>
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