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- Thu Aug 20, 2015 5:18 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Oil leaking from behind timing cover on /5
- Replies: 5
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Re: Oil leaking from behind timing cover on /5
I've finished replacing it. It looked like the old gasket had cracked. New one on and it seems to be good so far!
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:05 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Oil leaking from behind timing cover on /5
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1869
Re: Oil leaking from behind timing cover on /5
Thanks for the suggestions. I have changed the timing chain, tensioner, and seals a few years back, and will for sure check them again. I'm hoping it is just a bad gasket that is causing the leak. I saw Robert snowbum recommends no sealer applied to the timing cover gasket. Does everyone agree?
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:10 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Oil leaking from behind timing cover on /5
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1869
Oil leaking from behind timing cover on /5
I've got some oil seeping out of the back side of the timing cover on the right side (when seated) of my Frankenstein r100/5. I've started taking it apart, but am waiting on a rotor puller tool from Dan at cycle works. Can anyone think of things to check when I get inside here?
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:55 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Crankcase breather advice please
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13122
Re: Crankcase breather advice please
That tool is genius. Popped it out in 15 seconds! Thanks!
- Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:04 am
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Crankcase breather advice please
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13122
Re: Crankcase breather advice please
Thanks bamboo812! That's exactly what I need!
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:16 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Crankcase breather advice please
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13122
Re: Crankcase breather advice please
Anyone have any other removal suggestions? Mine isn't budging with the wire and pry bar/ hammer method. Also tried heating casing.This thing is stuck.
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:54 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: /5 headlight ring tricks?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3929
Re: /5 headlight ring tricks?
Ah zip ties! That is perfect. I will try this. Duane- do you wrap wire thru the opening as others use the zip tie?
- Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:29 am
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: /5 headlight ring tricks?
- Replies: 16
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/5 headlight ring tricks?
Does anyone have any methods of making these headlight rings staying on? Whenever I hit a bump the ring pops off. I've even installed a set screw on top and it still happens, but at least now I don't have to worry as much about it hitting the road and getting destroyed.
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:36 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Intermittent Ignition woes
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8187
Re: Intermittent Ignition woes
Yeah Ken, I really want to like the dyna3 and the concept of better performance, but this setup just seems cheap and finicky. The fact that the rotor magnet set screws tighten on the camshaft point lobes, and aren't contoured to mate smoothly, seems suspect. If one gets slightly loose, then the othe...
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:02 pm
- Forum: Post 1970 Airheads
- Topic: Intermittent Ignition woes
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8187
Re: Intermittent Ignition woes
I spent 3 hours today trying to get the dyna 3 dialed in. The adjustment for the individual sensors are a joke. They need a screwdriver slot similar to the points plate, or a set screw to make fine adjustments. I would over shoot adjust one direction, then the other. Also on a test drive it died out...