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Re: Oil Leak

At 07:28 AM 5/10/00 -0700, Tomasie wrote:
>I noticed a oil smell while riding, looked down and my rear tire was oiled.
>After removing the lower faring, and starting I saw oil running out of lower
>case bolt. I removed bolt, 8mm 100mm long. It had come loose. I cleaned it
>up Loctited and retorqued to 28nm. Has any onelse had this problem?

This sounds like what was happening with the bolts that caused the recall 
on the case bolts. This effected VIN numbers between # 076793 and 084542.

Do you have a 99 that falls in this range that the recall may not have been 
done on or is it a 2000 ?

- - Eric



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