Oil Leak :-(

Riding home in the wet last night I kept hitting what I thought were patches of diesel. When I got home I realised it was me leaving a trail of oil behind me

Had a look this morning and the oil is only leaking when the engine is running. It looks like its coming from a pipe that looks like its joined with some rubber sleaving (see pic).

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Is this something that I can repair or are new parts needed

Thanks

Ste

[flymo]

Originally Posted by stephencassidy

Riding home in the wet last night I kept hitting what I thought were patches of diesel. When I got home I realised it was me leaving a trail of oil behind me

Had a look this morning and the oil is only leaking when the engine is running. It looks like its coming from a pipe that looks like its joined with some rubber sleaving (see pic).

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Is this something that I can repair or are new parts needed

Thanks

Ste

Thats one of the pipes to the oil cooler. Looks like the pipe has corroded. You'll need to replace the pipe, check both of them though.

Be careful riding it as its oil under pressure, if the pipe ruptures you'll have a pool of oil under your bike that might well have you off.

been and given the area a bit of a clean sn its deffo leaking from this point. Phoned the local bike shop and he reckons they are very expensive to replace.

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[flymo]

Yep, there was a guy making and selling new ones on here a while ago.

alternatively a search on ebay or around the breakers might get you some newer ones

[jambo]

Well they're dead easy to replace. What they cost I don't know.

When Samnooshka's oil lines blew following being damaged in an accident, we got some new ones made up at a pirtek outlet near us. Took the old ones and they made up new braided steel lines rated to about 20x the pressure they'd ever face. Weren't cheap though...

Jambo

[flymo]

Originally Posted by flymo

...there was a guy making and selling new ones on here a while ago...

this was it....

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=133581

Thanks, have sent a PM to see if he is still doing them

Ste

Laguna bikes replaced one for me and wasn't expensive at all, shame they are in kent!

[speareig]

I got one from these guys for £17 http://www.svspares.com/items/226-1_...ooler-pipe.htm

Originally Posted by speareig

I got one from these guys for £17 http://www.svspares.com/items/226-1_...ooler-pipe.htm

Brilliant thanks for the link, will order one as soon as I get home

Ste