Has been for awhile actually, but hasn't been irritating enough for me to mess with fixing it. So i noticed a few days ago it's gotten to a point that there's oil on my belt guard so i figured well, not supposed to oil the belt i guess, so i better go ahead and replace that stupid seal. and also i have a decent shop, and i was tired of the oil spots on my floor anyway. So i go to the dealer to get the stuff i need. The tranny shaft seal, the one giving me grief, was $3.09. But of course since i was gonna have it apart i gotta replace all the seals and gaskets and stuff... it'd be stupid not to.

So, by the time i buy all the crap i need, o ring, seals for tranny shaft and starter shaft, the 3 primary cover gaskets, lock tabs, bearing race for the tranny seal and whatever else i'm forgetting, i got damn near a hundred bucks in it. So, what it comes down to is it cost me about a hundred bucks and 10 hours of (admittedly not steady) work because a stupid damn 3.09 seal decided to start leaking. I'd imagine the folks that don't like to do their own wrenching would have quite a lot more than that into it money wise... although it could be argued that 10 hours of my time is worth quite a lot... Just sayin...3 bucks for the damn seal. jeez.

 

Guess that's why you've been putting it off...

Part of being a mechanic. I was once told, "To be a mechanic, you have to accept three things...
1. You have to become a contortionist
2. You have to be smart enough to understand mechanical applications
3. You have to be dumb enough to keep doing it over, and over, and over...

 

A Cometic seal may ahve been a better choice.

 

Really?? Mad because you have stay out in the garage drinking beer listening to tunes and tinkering with your bike all day? Are you chitin me? I WISH I could do that right now, lmao... Good luck getting it fixed man.

 

I have a very slow leak there, lowered my tranny fluid level to the bottom of the full mark and it has stopped for now........ really not looking forward to pulling the primary apart...... but I'm afraid soon I will need to suck it up and get at it........

 

Do the shifter shaft seal and inner primary bearing while you are in there too. Comectic double lipped seal too.

 

This must be what is happening on my bike. Drip coming off the back of the primary. But I drained the primary and got exactly 32 0z. out. The trans on the other hand was barely touching the dipstick. So I'm guess trans leak.

 

Just had it done on the wifes bike this week at my local indy shop. I dont have the tools or a garage or i would have done it myself.