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Ride too hard = leaking primary
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Ride hard = leaking primary
Yesterday I was out riding and pulled into the store to pick something up. When I came back out I noticed oil splattered on my swingarm bag and a little (about the size of a quarter) puddle underneath the primary. As my floorboards have worn down, I have less warning before the primary hits in a hard turn, so I have managed to hit it a little more lately, but I must have done some harder turns than I realized. The head of the bolt that holds the outer primary cover on has been ground in half and the leak seems to be coming from between the inner and outer primary at that spot. Have any of you experienced this? If so, do you think it'll fix my problem if I just replace the bolt and primary gasket? I'm worried that the inner primary migt also be compromised, and that looks like a lot more of a pain to replace than the outer. If I do it though, I think I'll go chrome with the inner and black with the outer.
Last edited by spike95; Sep 23, 2008 at 05:19 PM.
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Jb weld!!!
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rotfl hahaha now don't get me wrong, I thought everybody carried a lil JB Weld on them.
But I remember reading a thread on this forum a while back about a man that had stripped the threads on his primary, over tightening his drain plug. His neighbor suggested he JB Weld his drain plug in b/c it would make new threads.
hehe if I recall that thread ran a few pages (c:
I dont suggest the OP with the mad cornering skillz use JB weld in this situation...
99%r
But I remember reading a thread on this forum a while back about a man that had stripped the threads on his primary, over tightening his drain plug. His neighbor suggested he JB Weld his drain plug in b/c it would make new threads.
hehe if I recall that thread ran a few pages (c:
I dont suggest the OP with the mad cornering skillz use JB weld in this situation...
99%r
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Is your bike lowered - can't tell from pic. If it is, you might want to raise it back up before you get really hurt by unloading the weight from the tires.
I had a friend who lowered his and wore clear through the outer primary. Don't know how he kept from dumping it.
I can't tell you how to fix that without seeing it, but that bike doesn't have the greatest lean angle before you start scraping hard parts. Please just be careful.
If you need to keep leaning that much you could buy a Deuce or a
Wide Glide.
I had a friend who lowered his and wore clear through the outer primary. Don't know how he kept from dumping it.
I can't tell you how to fix that without seeing it, but that bike doesn't have the greatest lean angle before you start scraping hard parts. Please just be careful.
If you need to keep leaning that much you could buy a Deuce or a
Wide Glide.