Nasty Oil Leak

mattbridges · Post by **mattbridges** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:14 pm

Went out to get on the storm this morning only to find it standing in the garage in a deep puddle of oil. Obviously took the car instead :-(

All of the oil seems to have come from around the oil filter area at the front of the engine, but couldn't tell from the brief look I took at it as it's got a pyramid bellypan.

I did pop out on it yesterday evening and everything seemed fine except about 1 minute from home I noticed a very quiet and intermittent ticking on deceleration at about 1500 rpm. No oil warning light or anything like that.

Can anyone think of anything else it might be? I'm sat here at work worrying about it :-(

VTRgirl · Post by **VTRgirl** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:26 pm

Have no idea, but reckon you might've saved yourself a bucket-load by only being a short distance from home! Count your lucky stars!

mattbridges · Post by **mattbridges** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:56 pm

Going to take the lower fairing off tonight and see if I can see where it's leaking - hope it's just the oil filter seal of something similar, it's almost due for a service...... fingers mc-crossed

mattbridges · Post by **mattbridges** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:37 pm

Looks like it was the oil filter seal - I emptied the rest of the oil - looks like I lost over 2 litres!

Refilled with Rock Oil and took her out for a run today - much better!

Post by **sirch345** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:58 pm

mattbridges wrote:Looks like it was the oil filter seal - I emptied the rest of the oil - looks like I lost over 2 litres!

Refilled with Rock Oil and took her out for a run today - much better!

Was the oil filter loose

Chris.

mattbridges · Post by **mattbridges** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:04 pm

No not at all, but the rubber seal had a split in it.

Post by **sirch345** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:22 pm

mattbridges wrote:No not at all, but the rubber seal had a split in it.

Thats a bit of a worry

Any ideas why it had split

Chris.

mattbridges · Post by **mattbridges** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:28 pm

Sadly no idea at all - the filter that was on there wasn't a honda part - it was a champion (I think). Swapped it for the honda one.

The rubber on the old one didn't appear anywhere near as thick as the stuff on the honda one, but it's hard to say as it's obviously compressed quite a bit being on the bike for about 3 months.

At first I thought it the filter might have been hit by a stone, but it doesn't look like it was damaged - I filled it full of water and left it over night, but it was just as full next morning.

Post by **sirch345** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:55 am

mattbridges wrote:Sadly no idea at all - the filter that was on there wasn't a honda part - it was a champion (I think). Swapped it for the honda one.

The rubber on the old one didn't appear anywhere near as thick as the stuff on the honda one, but it's hard to say as it's obviously compressed quite a bit being on the bike for about 3 months.

At first I thought it the filter might have been hit by a stone, but it doesn't look like it was damaged - I filled it full of water and left it over night, but it was just as full next morning.

Perhaps it was to do with the rubber seal being not as good quality as the genuine Honda product

Chris.