OK, so I did the initial service on my bike (03 kat 600) at 600-ish miles (I'm at about 950 now) and got everything put back together and sealed up, so I though. Well, I was riding yesterday and stopped off at the dealership (they have a bar/restraurant and dirt track there for the kiddies) and noticed a spot of oil on the ground when I came back out. so, after a little inspection, sure enough, I've got some oil running down the left side. I haven't had time to take the lower and upper left fairing off to see where it might be coming from, but I'm guessing either the head cover gasket or the oil line on the left side. Is there anything else I should check out?
A little background here...
when I was putting the bike back together I actually had to tear it down/reassemble it twice. After the initial tear down and adjustment of the valves (the instructions in the factory manual are wrong, btw...) I put it all back together and started it up, and it ran fine. then it got warmed up and started to smoke, and when I'd rev it it'd hiccup at 2500 rpm. Well, I apparently had a vaccum leak because the head cover gasket on the front left (looking at it from the seat) and back right (actually the front of the bike) had not seated in the groove properly and was actually pushed inside. I immediately stopped the bike and tore everything back down and re-seated the gasket, but in the process nicked it on the front-left side. the cut didn't even go halfway through, though. I'm really hoping that's not where the oil is coming from.
If it is where can I get that gasket from?
EDIT: Just as a side note on this... the oil leak is EXTREMELY slow. I estimate I'm probably loosing about a teaspoon or less a day.
A little background here...
when I was putting the bike back together I actually had to tear it down/reassemble it twice. After the initial tear down and adjustment of the valves (the instructions in the factory manual are wrong, btw...) I put it all back together and started it up, and it ran fine. then it got warmed up and started to smoke, and when I'd rev it it'd hiccup at 2500 rpm. Well, I apparently had a vaccum leak because the head cover gasket on the front left (looking at it from the seat) and back right (actually the front of the bike) had not seated in the groove properly and was actually pushed inside. I immediately stopped the bike and tore everything back down and re-seated the gasket, but in the process nicked it on the front-left side. the cut didn't even go halfway through, though. I'm really hoping that's not where the oil is coming from.
If it is where can I get that gasket from?
EDIT: Just as a side note on this... the oil leak is EXTREMELY slow. I estimate I'm probably loosing about a teaspoon or less a day.
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