leaky

the 7r. Only a little bit of oil, but I suppose it's not a good sign.
Certainly it's not loosing it at a rate that affects the sight guage,
but over the weekend a little patch of oil appears - right under the
middle of the bike.

Any ideas what might be causing it (i.e. any known problems of this
nature with Kwak 750s), or is it a case or taking the bodywork off,
cleaning it up, and trying to see were oil is oozing out of?

 

Been lubing your chain?

 

Checked the sump plug?

 

This is darsy here.

 

Ditto, response to dweeb.

 

yeah, before every ride, but with Castrol Chain Wax - the stuff on the
floor is definitely engine oil.

 

heh - I might well be a mechanical numpty, but oiling and adjusting the
chain is one of the things I do actually do on a regular basis.

 

Loosing? You should be ashamed.

If it is really a tiny amount, I'd not worry about it - stick a bit of
cardboard under it to keep the oil off your floor and enable
assessment of the actual quantity. Let it develop a bit and then it
should be easier to see where it is coming from.

Or stick a Triumph badge on it and accept leakage as a fact of life.


If you're really feeling keen - get the bodywork off, squirt the
engine/gearbox/anything else that is oily with Jizer or Gunk, hose it
off and let it dry, then run it up and see if you can spot it.

The lazy man's way is a bit similar to fucking a fat bird ...

 

**** that, man - get a Scottoiler in.

 

<ashamed>

 

Nah, OCD.

 

Push rod oil seal just in front of the clutch. HTH

 

push it where?

 

Hehe...mlwaaaaah

 

There's a few places where it could be coming from, but as describded
by others, there's only one way to find out :

- take the fairing lowers off
- thoroughly degrease the engine
- run the motor to warm up the oil
- park it
- wait.

Possible candidates are:
- sump plug (if so, this is a worry. You do not want it to come out
while riding along. DAMHIK, IJK,OK?
- clutch push rod oil seal - just above the gearbox sprocket. It's
all hiddne behind a cover, so will look like it's coming from the
chain/gearbox sprocket
- Gearbox sprocker shaft
- clutch cover
- points [1] cover

[1] of course, they're not points anymore, but everyone still seems to
use this term.

 

sounds complicated.

more complicated. I'm guessing if the sump plug comes up when you're
riding, it dumps all the oil over the rear shock/tyre, causing a
brown-trouser moment?

 

That's *exactly* what happens. On my first ZXR750 (in about 1989) it
dumped the oil all over the rear tyre - I leant it into a gentle
lefthander and the back just slide. Fortunately, as it slide, the
bike leant over, moving the tyre contact patch sideways, to a bit of
tyre that didn't have oil on it (the oil was a 2 inch wide stripe down
the middle). So, I regained some traction, and corrected, but of
course, as the bike came upright, it got onto the oily bit of the
tyre, and now, with some momementum, it stepped out in the other
direction.

After 3 or four of these I found myself roughly upright, but on the
wrong side of the road and heading for the kerb. Fortunately, there
was a dip in the kerb at just the right place, which I rode up, and
along the pavement for 50 yds before finally coming to rest.

 

lucky ****.

 

pity you're not as good a rider as some, as clearly the sensible action
in the above circumstances would have been to pull a rolling stoppy
until you came safely to rest.