RE: Countershaft Seal, Was: New kid on the block and Dropped it

[Macadam <macadam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rich wrote:
Also, with specific regard to Phillipe's request for info about oil leakage at
the shifter pedal shaft, my dealer found it to be a bad countershaft seal, 
which is the power shaft coming out of the transmission on which the front
sprocket mounts.  The countershaft seal has been replaced and the bike is oil
tight again.  Phillipe, if you don't have a solution to your oil problem yet, 
yours sounds exactly like mine, so it may be the countershaft seal, or it could
still be that plug above the shifter shaft.

Thanks for the tips, but apparently the oil leakage has disappeared miraculously on the last trip I made.
(And there's still oil in the engine).
Sorry to here you dropped it, but from what I hear things could have been worse.

Philippe

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Rich Weyand [SMTP:weyand@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	vendredi 28 mai 1999 21:23
To:	ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Countershaft Seal, Was: New kid on the block and Dropped it

I wrote:
>At 05:56 PM 5/24/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>
>>After two months with the ST I noticed some minor problem: after having had 
>>the crankcase bolts being replaced by the dealer (didn't see the invoice 
>>yet, so I suppose no charge)  the engine started leaking oil. It's leaking 
>>where you have the axle of the gear selector coming out of the engine. Has 
>>anyone else experienced an oil leakage there or is this just me?
>
>Just got off the phone with my dealer/wrench.  Thay had a T5 earlier this year
>leaking from around the shifter axle entry, and replaced the seal, and that
>wasn't it.  There is a threaded bolt/plug just above and slightly forward of
>the shifter axle entry, and this was leaking.  Torquing this to spec
eliminated
>the leak.  They are going to try this on mine prior to opening the sump, for
>the sump bolt recall, so that if that isn't it, and they do need to
replace the 
>shifter axle seal, they don't have to open it up twice.

Weather here is great, and my dealer tells me my ST is good to go again.  He's
going to take it out and stretch its legs a bit and make sure he doesn't feel
anything funny about it to indicate that I broke it worse than we thought.

They replaced RHS faring upper, RHS nacelle, RHS mirror, and rear brake pedal.

Also, with specific regard to Phillipe's request for info about oil leakage at
the shifter pedal shaft, my dealer found it to be a bad countershaft seal, 
which is the power shaft coming out of the transmission on which the front
sprocket mounts.  The countershaft seal has been replaced and the bike is oil
tight again.  Phillipe, if you don't have a solution to your oil problem yet, 
yours sounds exactly like mine, so it may be the countershaft seal, or it could
still be that plug above the shifter shaft.

They also replaced the sump bolts on this trip.  None were loose.  Triumph is 
picking up part of the labor on my body work, as I had it all done at once.


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