Final Drive Leaking

[smthng]

Yo Sparky, if its grease, you're okay. Either they added a bit much to the shaft or the splines. The excess will spin off when it gets warm enough. After a few weeks it will stop. It's only oil you have to worry about. If it is oil, the difference between pumkin and engine oil should be obvious enough to most.

Grease = good.

Oil = bad.

 

[sparky3008]

It is behind the 4 bolts you mentioned at that opening. I don't really have an issue with oil coming from the shaft drain bolt. I went out with a rag and window cleaner and clean the rear wheel and shaft area to check again tonight after the ride home.

I just changed the shaft drive oil along with my engine oil but used a new crush washer and put to 17ftlbs +.

It also doesn't seem to be coming between the shaft and the rim only from the hole you mention on the bottom of the shaft...

 

[BBIII]

Take a look under the shaft side of the swing-arm.  Right in front of where the pumpkin bolts to the swing arm is a drain hole.  If there's oil coming out of that, it can get sucked into your rear wheel and look like it's coming from the shaft.  If so, you've got a cracked oil seal on the swing-arm...  Should be covered under warantee.  As far as I know, I'm the only one who's had this problem, so it's fairly uncommon and probably not the issue. But it can't hurt to check.

Pumpkin? I'm sure this is a technical term used in motorcycle engineering and any idiot who has ever owned a shaft drive knows this (I'm almost afraid of posting this because RADMAN will get on me for not understanding the engineering of the bike sorry RM I didn't engineer the damn thing - I bought it to ride it hard and farkle it up, and I will pay yama-monkeys to maintain it)

WTF is a pumpkin?

Could it possibly be the rear wheel drive assembly where my bike is leaking oil/grease? Like a differential on a car?

 

[FJRocket]

Pumpkin= rear differential. The place where the shaft drives the rear wheel gears. On a car, especially older ones, many of the rear differential housings look like a pumpkin.

In our case I think they are talking about that big housing at the rear end of the shaft. The part on the left side that houses what actually makes the rear wheel turn.

 

[sparky3008]

Pumpkin= rear differential. The place where the shaft drives the rear wheel gears. On a car, especially older ones, many of the rear differential housings look like a pumpkin.
In our case I think they are talking about that big housing at the rear end of the shaft. The part on the left side that houses what actually makes the rear wheel turn.

Yea BBIII,

Look up under the "pumkin" or what you may call the shaft drive but the part that is connected to the wheel and in front of the 4 bolts. On the bottom is a hole, this is where some seem to be loosing oil if a seal is broke...

 

[radman]

knows this (I'm almost afraid of posting this because RADMAN will get on me for not understanding the engineering of the bike sad.gif sorry RM I didn't engineer the damn thing - I bought it to ride it hard and farkle it up, and I will pay yama-monkeys to maintain it

Ohhhhh, good burn. Guess ya told me.