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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 12:07 PM
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my month old '07 ultra rear cylinder base gasket is leaking. i have an appointment for the 22nd for "repair". i'm just curious how many other brand new bikes show this traditional hd trait? my '87 fx does it too, but it isn't under warranty, so a regular wipe is it's only fix.
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 12:18 PM
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It's unusual, you don't have base gaskets, you have "O" rings. It should be an easy fix and won't happen again.

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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 12:26 PM
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thanks for the reply. i just got the parts manual and didn't know yet they'd switched to o-rings. i hope your encouraging statement holds true.
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 12:28 PM
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just thinking, you said 'easy fix', they have to lift the cylinder (which is easier than totally removing for gasket), which isn't tooo 'easy', right?
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 12:42 PM
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just thinking, you said 'easy fix', they have to lift the cylinder (which is easier than totally removing for gasket), which isn't tooo 'easy', right?
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Guess they still have to remove the cylinder to get that o-ring in place...How else are they gonna get it in there...
 
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Old Sep 6, 2007 | 01:33 PM
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sorry about the brain f--t. guess i shouldn't try to write/think while being interrrupted by kids. thanks for pointing out what should've been obvious to me. so back to my point of it won't be too easy of a fix since they have to remove the cylinder.
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