if all mating surfaces are true a method I've used with success on rocker feeds as told by my Triumph guru and he says it was used in production. is to use Loctite on the faces of the annealed copper washer.
A: Oil Pipework Series D oil tank leak
- Thread starter Gary Gittleson
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Over-tightening T31 can crack T30 causing an oil leak which, in my case, took some tracking down. It was cured by soldering. Cheers, Stu.
I think I've found my problem. The "bolt" has a reduced diameter (waisted) in the position of the contact with the tank. This allows the upper washer to move around as one tightens it up. My solution was to create a land for the washer with solder. I think the pictures explain it better.
The first picture shows the reduced diameter. The second shows what that allows the washer to do. The remaining two show what I did and how it seems to help.
It's not pretty and certainly not concours, about which I don't give a ... er .... hoot.
I did put some Loctite 567 on each side of both washers and re-assembled. Both washers are nicely centered. I'll be filling the tank with oil tomorrow and report in a week or so as to the results. If it's like before, it will show signs of leaking without running the bike.
Gary
The first picture shows the reduced diameter. The second shows what that allows the washer to do. The remaining two show what I did and how it seems to help.
It's not pretty and certainly not concours, about which I don't give a ... er .... hoot.
I did put some Loctite 567 on each side of both washers and re-assembled. Both washers are nicely centered. I'll be filling the tank with oil tomorrow and report in a week or so as to the results. If it's like before, it will show signs of leaking without running the bike.
Gary
