Not that big an issue but one that I seem to remember many people having noticed.
At first I just thought I'd flush it at the same time I was gonna install the braided line for the clutch and that would be the end of it
I even laughed out aloud to myself when someone (think it was Coco but please don't shoot me if I'm wrong) suggested at Ranger's site that he thought it was from water/crud/whatever entering the system from around the front sprocket area.
At that time I had not seen that area on the Busa yet and used the way it was done on my Honda CB1000 Big One as a reference and on that bike this would be absolutely impossible.
In the mean time I have now taken the front sprocket cover off and taken the clutch slave assembly apart and had a long good look at this whole construction and I now tend to believe that this is indeed the problem here.
The kind of seal used for the slave clutch cylinder is not one with a lot of sealing pressure behind it UNTIL used, as the clutch fluid itself seems to be used to pressurize the seal?
Furthermore, the whole construction seems so stupidly NOT thought about properly, as in the clutch slave area getting loads of "**** " from the chain and such dumped on it with nothing to keep it away from the area that it slides in/on.
I've now cleaned/rebuild it like new and incorporated sort of a cap over the slave assembly on the inside with a hole in the middle just a little larger ID than required for the clutch pushrod.
If you ever find the time to do this, just take the front sprocket cover off and take one good look and you'll see and understand.
I used a cap from a 1 liter plastic milk bottle with OD appr. 2" and height only about .1" and glued it in place on the outside rim of the part that the slave cylinder moves in on the inside.
Any remarks/suggestions welcome.
Only bad thing is that I haven't been riding my Busa yet since this and I'm not doing that many miles anyway so for a long term verdict someone else must be crazy enough to try this out as well.
Also, no pics available as I only thought of that after bolting everything up again, but I'm sure that anybody who's not a mechanical moron will understand once he has things apart.
Apologies to Coco if it was him, for my first thoughts.
And JeffW if you ever decide to do it, think about what colour cap to use with your Mikuni sprocket cover. I used a blue milk bottle cap (no choice available really) and it would sure look weird if that was out in the open.
[This message has been edited by Animal (edited 21 March 2000).]
At first I just thought I'd flush it at the same time I was gonna install the braided line for the clutch and that would be the end of it
I even laughed out aloud to myself when someone (think it was Coco but please don't shoot me if I'm wrong) suggested at Ranger's site that he thought it was from water/crud/whatever entering the system from around the front sprocket area.
At that time I had not seen that area on the Busa yet and used the way it was done on my Honda CB1000 Big One as a reference and on that bike this would be absolutely impossible.
In the mean time I have now taken the front sprocket cover off and taken the clutch slave assembly apart and had a long good look at this whole construction and I now tend to believe that this is indeed the problem here.
The kind of seal used for the slave clutch cylinder is not one with a lot of sealing pressure behind it UNTIL used, as the clutch fluid itself seems to be used to pressurize the seal?
Furthermore, the whole construction seems so stupidly NOT thought about properly, as in the clutch slave area getting loads of "**** " from the chain and such dumped on it with nothing to keep it away from the area that it slides in/on.
I've now cleaned/rebuild it like new and incorporated sort of a cap over the slave assembly on the inside with a hole in the middle just a little larger ID than required for the clutch pushrod.
If you ever find the time to do this, just take the front sprocket cover off and take one good look and you'll see and understand.
I used a cap from a 1 liter plastic milk bottle with OD appr. 2" and height only about .1" and glued it in place on the outside rim of the part that the slave cylinder moves in on the inside.
Any remarks/suggestions welcome.
Only bad thing is that I haven't been riding my Busa yet since this and I'm not doing that many miles anyway so for a long term verdict someone else must be crazy enough to try this out as well.
Also, no pics available as I only thought of that after bolting everything up again, but I'm sure that anybody who's not a mechanical moron will understand once he has things apart.
Apologies to Coco if it was him, for my first thoughts.
And JeffW if you ever decide to do it, think about what colour cap to use with your Mikuni sprocket cover. I used a blue milk bottle cap (no choice available really) and it would sure look weird if that was out in the open.
[This message has been edited by Animal (edited 21 March 2000).]
