oil filling up gearchange case

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jellywrestler

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yep there's too much oil migrating from the gearbox into the outer gearchange case, what's the general consensus on preventing this please folks?
 
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Big Sid

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On oil migrating from gearbox into the gear change cover . If all else , CS sprocket seal etc is functioning then it's usually a case of too much oil in the transmission housing . It requires only one full qt. from drained to properly lubricate the internals . It should JUST
Glisten on the dipstick tip , no more , not up midway on the flat .
It's quite easy to fit an O ring behind the gear change ratchet spring cup lessening loss from the bush there too . See to all these and barely any oil will transfer across . All our motors get these suggestions and such is the case with all of them . Sid .


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stumpy lord

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Paul Richardsons book Vincent, in chapter five , page75, states that the required oil quantity is two imperial pints / which is one quart/ or one litre.

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Robert Watson

Robert Watson

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Glenliman said:
Just a smidge less than 1/40th of a Firkin.
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That Hawaiian sun must be affecting your brain. The required 2 imperial pints is exactly 1/36th of an Imperial Firkin. Or perhaps as you are in the good old US of A at present, you meant U S Firkins, in which case a smidge under 1/30 th of a Firkin.

I can see now how you short change the Gin measures!
 
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