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Burman gearbox cleaning
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<blockquote data-quote="Hugo Myatt" data-source="post: 21699" data-attributes="member: 99"><p><strong>Burman box</strong></p><p></p><p>Tom,</p><p></p><p>I wonder what other people have experienced? I ran a Burman box with a thick, heavy and very dark grease of unknown origin, which I only discovered later when I pulled it apart. The layshaft bush ran dry and seized. I then had that box and another one modified by a very good engineer (No blame on him. He did a great job) with oil seals on the kickstart shaft, gear change shaft and I think the final output shaft. One box was fitted to the bike and then filled with oil only. The next morning half the oil was on the garage floor. I refilled it and rode a couple of miles and so doing covered the back of the bike in oil. Since then I have filled it with Castrol Spheerol semi fluid grease which seems to seal the box but is liquid where it matters. I admit to putting an egg cup full of oil in occasionally but this seems to leak out straight away. Anyway I have had no further troubles. Your 'pourable grease' sounds interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hugo Myatt, post: 21699, member: 99"] [b]Burman box[/b] Tom, I wonder what other people have experienced? I ran a Burman box with a thick, heavy and very dark grease of unknown origin, which I only discovered later when I pulled it apart. The layshaft bush ran dry and seized. I then had that box and another one modified by a very good engineer (No blame on him. He did a great job) with oil seals on the kickstart shaft, gear change shaft and I think the final output shaft. One box was fitted to the bike and then filled with oil only. The next morning half the oil was on the garage floor. I refilled it and rode a couple of miles and so doing covered the back of the bike in oil. Since then I have filled it with Castrol Spheerol semi fluid grease which seems to seal the box but is liquid where it matters. I admit to putting an egg cup full of oil in occasionally but this seems to leak out straight away. Anyway I have had no further troubles. Your 'pourable grease' sounds interesting. [/QUOTE]
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