Front cover oil leak

[ovenpaa]

Spotted what looked like an oil leak down the front cover from the B*W logo - erm, that is a plastic one piece cover so I had a closer look, the leak was also on the rear of the mudguard and bottom fork clamp....

Bugger - so that is what happens when you fill the tank up to the brim and then got go for bimble around the lanes, the tank gets shaken up, fuel comes out of the breather and into the headstock where it washes the grease from the bearings out the bottom and down your mudguard.

So now I know

 

[Spout]

The rollover valve in the tank should stop excess petrol leaking.

And if it was petrol why have you got an oil leak?

I'd check your oil cooler and lines.

 

[ovenpaa]

The rollover valve in the tank should stop excess petrol leaking.

And if it was petrol why have you got an oil leak?

I'd check your oil cooler and lines.

It is not an oil leak - it is the grease being flushed out of the headstock by the petrol and dripping down the front that at first glance looks like an oil leak

 

[Spout]

It is not an oil leak

Phew......

But you might want to check the action of your rollover valve - it should stop any petrol coming through the breather