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Old Jul 18, 2011 | 05:39 PM
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I posted this yesterday but I guess I worded it badly. I was changing the oil in two different bikes at once and in the process I acccidentaly put a little too much oil in the evol (3 qts. plus what I could get in the new filter). My question is, would this be enough to cause a leak to begin at the push rod block gaskets or is this just a coincidence? Thanks for any feed back.
 
Old Jul 18, 2011 | 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by frethugger
I posted this yesterday but I guess I worded it badly. I was changing the oil in two different bikes at once and in the process I acccidentaly put a little too much oil in the evol (3 qts. plus what I could get in the new filter). My question is, would this be enough to cause a leak to begin at the push rod block gaskets or is this just a coincidence? Thanks for any feed back.
Since you're not having much luck at getting a reply, I'll start by saying I'm no mechanic....but that seems like a strange place to see overflow to me. I'd think you would see oil in the breather or somewhere like that.
 
 
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