Oil spray around primary clutch

EGGMAN

EGGMAN

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I have a 1998 xtc 700. Last week I noticed some oil spray on the clutch cover and on the belly pan that was in line with the inside edgeof the clutch, between the motor and the clutch. I had accidently spilled some oil the week before while filling it up. I cleaned it up the best I could without removing the air box, but there was still some remains that I couldn't get to. Could that have caused the oil spray? Has anyone else seen this on theirs? Since then I have taken the air box off and cleaned it better. I have not been able to ride for any distance to see of the spray comes back. Thanks
 
thats not the crank seal thats a sealed breaing the crank seal is on the other side of that bearing last year i had to replace my bearing because it was leaking oil out of the sealed bearing an i also tryed the starin fluid too find out it wasnt a crank seal at all an i jus bought th enew bearing i paid around 85.00 for it
 
EGGMAN said:
How hard is it to replace the crank bearing? Do you do the seal at the same time?
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witch bearing?

if it's the middle one it' needs to be sent out or taken to a shop to be pressed apart then back together.

yes yes yes always new seals when your in there.
 
same thing happened on my vmax 700. turns out it was caused by a hole in the bottom of the bulk head. I'm guessing the extra water down there caused all the oil and crud to make its way to the clutch ,which slung oil as you described. plugged the hole with jb weld and no more oil spray. sounds crazy but problem solved.
 
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