My oil won't stay put. Please help.

[qslim]

My oil has found a path to the outside world through my clutch cover (I think). I only have the problem when engine speed is high (like 70mph cruising), and my guess is that the carrier flings oil outwards at a higher rate the faster the engine spins. I ran about 40 miles on the highway today and damn near slipped when I pulled in to get gas from all the oil on my boot. I took her home, degreased her, rode about 20 gentle miles and am dry as a bone.
This is the second gasket I've replaced after my new clutch last month (this time with the red Loctite sealer spray), and I'm running out of gaskets here. I'm thinking about trying a bead of black RTV. What do you think?

[Big T]

You need to find out exactly where the oil is leaking from. Replacing the clutch cover gasket does nothing if it's coming from the base cylindr gasket.

[Dink]

Put some "talcum powder" around the clutch housing, and go for a test ride trying to get it to leak, you can then trace the leak by the powder trail.
Dink

[Carter Turk]

I reuse clutch cover, stator cover gaskets all the time, even when they tear and have no weeping. I use white Three Bond 2011 I think. Great stuff.

Does your clutch cover have the screw at about 4 oclock with the rubber bushing?

[qslim]

I reuse clutch cover, stator cover gaskets all the time, even when they tear and have no weeping. I use white Three Bond 2011 I think. Great stuff.

Does your clutch cover have the screw at about 4 oclock with the rubber bushing?

Hmmm. I traced it to the clutch cover gasket for sure with some dye, so I need to try something else. There are no rubber bushing to speak of on mine, but that 4 oclock spot is about where the oil starts to leak once engine speeds creep over 5 or so. I checked the fiche on Bandit and didn't see anything on there I don't have. Hmmm. Maybe I'll take it off and put a straight edge on it, see if I can't see why it won't seal.

[Carter Turk]

I'm assuming both mating surfaces are free of old gasket material and the gasket is resting flush against aluminum on both sides.

Maybe your torque sequence caused that area to "float" a bit. Also check to see if the case half mating area is flush.

[chef1366]

I'm warped

Sounds like a warped clutch cover.

[qslim]

Sounds like a warped clutch cover.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking. At least it gives me an excuse to use the machine straight edge I bought a couple of years ago. I used it once on a Prelude head last year that my pal cooked at the track. Between my friends and my bike my tool drawers don't stay closed for long.

[chef1366]

Still Warped

Scrape all the old gasket off and see if it rocks on a flat surface. Hopefully it's not the engine case.

[Clone]

If the oil is all over his boot, wouldn't it be coming off either the shift shaft or from the bottom of the stator cover? The high speeds would blow the oil back onto his boot.

[Cassius086]

Try the timing/iginiton points cover on the right side...there is a seal under that cover behing the ignition hardware for the crank there that can fail...did so on my 81 GS750E. Fear not, the particular seal I speak of can be replaced w/o having to split the cases or anything drastic. The oil would seep through the seal at the end of the crank, out the little weep hole on the back/bottom side of the cover and wind up on the tip of my right boot. I can't give any more exact details, as I was new to motorcycle wrenching at the time and had the dealer do the work...hope that helps!!