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Old 04-15-2009, 08:57 PM
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Man; that blinker oil is running over from the sporty section......nev heard if it is syn oil or not?. and is the line fill full mark on the 1st or 2nd ring of the lens..
 
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Old 04-16-2009, 08:40 AM
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It's gremlin **** from you scaring him/her on your last ride, and the gremlin just keeps pissing itself when you get the bike ready for another ride.
 
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Old 04-16-2009, 10:54 AM
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DO NOT wash it off, next time. Use an Exacto knife, and carefully scrape it off, and put it into a 'pill' bottle. After I save enough of it, I use it for chain lube. Stuff stix like glue to the chain.
Also, DO NOT, as previously posted, substitute blinker fluid, for regulator fluid. Blinker fluid has two more carbon atoms in it, and it will destroy the synthetic membrane inside the reg.
NOT GOOD !!!!!!!!
ONCE AGAIN, old is GOOD. Remember the 'mechanical' regs they had on the knucks and pans?? HUH?? Well, do ya??? NOW those were 'modern marvels' IN ACTION. NO STEENKING leaking fluids there, I can tell you that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Laughed myself silly on several of these replies. No one has mentioned that the oil filter might not have been screwed on quite tight enough on that last oil change.
I'm looking for a cheap place to buy the signal light fluid, wanta stock up and buy a case of the stuff. I can't see why you can't drill a small hole at the top of each lense and fill it up to the top. Then I'll do the same thing with the voltage regulator to make sure it is well lubricated and running cooler. Better safe than sorry I always say.
 
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You should have the VR checked ASAP. I just had mine catch fire last week. (see related post). There was no warning except the smoke then fire. The VR got so hot it melted the back of the regulator that contains the internal wires. It looked like melted road tar dripping off of the bike.
 
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just cut the wires and twist them together. they will never leak again !
 
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The OP posted in 2009. It stopped leaking in 2010. Engine blew up sometime in 2011.
Hasn't leaked in 4 years...Good work, guys.
 
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Originally Posted by RHPAW
The OP posted in 2009. It stopped leaking in 2010. Engine blew up sometime in 2011.
Hasn't leaked in 4 years...Good work, guys.
That funny. While reading didn't even notice the date.
 
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here you go
 
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