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Chewed up push rod and vexing oil leak
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<blockquote data-quote="Ducdude" data-source="post: 23888" data-attributes="member: 2077"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Thanks Vince..I would be surprised if she was not burning any oil as this girl has been sitting for 40 years and has never been opened up so she has the stock pistons and rings and 40 years of crud and rust...I have been wishing that a good hard fast run will help seal her up a bit...The compression is good at 140-150psi and the leak down showed 7%-8% or so. The numbers seem to say she is pretty tight for a 60 year old.... The exhaust also does not smell of oil..Go figure..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I agree with the exhaust leak and I also agree that it is probably the muffler clamp..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The oil on the front cylinder turned out to be from spraying past the front exhaust pushrod seal, freaky but true..I changed both the upper and the lower set of seals and that leak just went away...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Now the other three are weeping and the oil actually migrates forward along the cylinder bases and down behind the mag and under the bike all the way to the back of the motor...Man isn't that against a rule of nature or something?? Well, I'll have that fix at hand soon enough..</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Thanks,</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ducdude, post: 23888, member: 2077"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Thanks Vince..I would be surprised if she was not burning any oil as this girl has been sitting for 40 years and has never been opened up so she has the stock pistons and rings and 40 years of crud and rust...I have been wishing that a good hard fast run will help seal her up a bit...The compression is good at 140-150psi and the leak down showed 7%-8% or so. The numbers seem to say she is pretty tight for a 60 year old.... The exhaust also does not smell of oil..Go figure..[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I agree with the exhaust leak and I also agree that it is probably the muffler clamp..[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The oil on the front cylinder turned out to be from spraying past the front exhaust pushrod seal, freaky but true..I changed both the upper and the lower set of seals and that leak just went away...[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Now the other three are weeping and the oil actually migrates forward along the cylinder bases and down behind the mag and under the bike all the way to the back of the motor...Man isn't that against a rule of nature or something?? Well, I'll have that fix at hand soon enough..[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Thanks,[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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