Primary oil level concern
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Primary oil level concern
So my 2011 Wide Glide was shifting hard into first so I went to adjust the clutch and saw that there was very little oil inside the primary. I filled the primary case again with fresh oil. Should I be worried? I rode is about 1500 miles since I changed all the fluids.
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The ring gear dips way down in the primary. It would sling oil with only half the required amount. Are you sure it was really low. the owner manual sucks on what it shows. It should only be to the edge of the diaphragm spring. It's so hard to really see the proper level, I have a little piece of bent wire to check it. Next time you start it, try pulling in the clutch and push back of the seat pushing the bike back about a foot. It helps to break the dive and driven clutch plates from the oil film that sticks them. It will ease the clunk a lot. If while you do it, and tap the throttle a couple times and one the second as it drops back to idle, hit the shift and it will not clunk at all (most of the time)
Last edited by Jackie Paper; 09-14-2018 at 11:09 AM.
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So my 2011 Wide Glide was shifting hard into first so I went to adjust the clutch and saw that there was very little oil inside the primary. I filled the primary case again with fresh oil. Should I be worried? I rode is about 1500 miles since I changed all the fluids.
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If you're losing that much oil, and it's not leaking, your crank seal is shot and the bike is sucking primary oil into the crank case. Yes, I know, it sounds like bull ****, because motor pressure should be greater than primary pressure, and if the crank seal was shot, it would be the other way around, but I had this very exact same thing happen to my bike. The PO put the crank seal in backwards. The only reason I noticed this is when I checked my oil on a fuel stop... which I do EVERYTIME I stop for gas, and the damn oil was full of red ATF and right up to the filler neck where the dip stick goes in. Of course mine is an evo and yours is a TC, but... not very different from each other when it comes to the primary. My recommendation is to pop that dip stick and check it.
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