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Thank you, yes, I was trying to ask if the leak is motor oil or gear oil. With the gearbox removed, is it very wet in the housing around the clutch? If so, and it is gearoil, Pete Roper is saying that the most likely leak is the seals for the clutch pushrod coming form the slave cylinder behind the gearbox. My Sport was also leaking motor oil from the flat gasket for the crankcase breather tube at the top right.

good one to post on the Encyclopedia of Compatible Parts!

The "two bolts" Pete Roper describes are at the bottom of the rear main bearing carrier at the rear of the engine. There are several other places that can leak engine oil. The second link you have is about leaking gearbox oil. Which type of oil is making your gearbox wet?

Definitely in position #5, but why not just do them all? So many of the relays that have been foisted upon us are under-rated or have poor quality control. Use a well rated, High Current relay + full set

I ask this because it so often overlooked as a component of the state of tune. For a long while I was fortunate to have 91 AKI zero-ethanol available. The Sport ran smoother, no doubt. Some other motorcyclists and vintage car enthusiasts exposed me to Shell 93AKI V-Power Nitro+ . I started using it (almost) exclusively in the Sport a year and a half ago. When I have had to fill up with an alternative, even 93AKI, I am immediately reminded of the hiccups and stumbles. Many of you know how extensively I have tried to chase down, correct, and document the various issues that contribute to V11-stumble. They all matter. You've done a lot of things right not-fishing! This is something super-simple worth trying.

Awesome, man! Seriously, folks: The Best Twenty-five US Bucks that you can spend on your V11! I've seen High Current relays solve soooo many problems that we have chased from one end of this bike to the other for years-and-years. Get 'em while you can!

"Dear Gawd . . . don't let this be my Sport . . . but if it must be, then okay . . ."

No wooden stakes! (well . . . maybe here somewhere . . . )

HEY! My sport resembles that remark!

There is the business of irons and bars . . . hammers included for thread congruity.

I had a lot of fun with that modification. There was beer involved. I would think using Coke bottles an affront. At least to the beer drinking. A couple things really surprised me (outside of the volume and variety of beer consumed): The polymer material ("plastic") is REALLY stiff, and the difference it made in running quality and audible "note" has been a true delight. [edit: I see that thread ran from October to February (2016). Pretty sure that was a cold winter here . . . ]

What kind of fuel are you running?

Haha, well, it's easy to paraphrase questions for bit of fun and totally dodge the issue . . . For sure, I never noticed the Parts Manual is in error on the location of those two parts. Good call, there!

Easy to answer the first half of the first half of the first question: ("First, does anyone know where I can find a female . . . [ ?]") A: nope Seriously, second question: yep, the parts manual pictures the devices in reverse. The petcock is to the rear.

"spoon in the spaghetti" shifter . . .

So, so great, man! Congratulations to all! Love the mural on the café . . . although the bassman looks suspiciously cheerful . . .

So, you could source a lower rear subframe for a 1999-2001 V11 Sport (or Rossso Mandello) to mount the EV moter? (The top plate mount is true of the Sport1100/1100Sport-i, but was omitted on the early V11 Sport.)

"How much for the [tachometer]? I want to buy your [tachometers]. SELL THEM TO ME! Sell me your [tachometers]!"

I can write you "a note" . . . . "A proper and sustained dose of vibration and wind therapy, applied with a V-twin and mountain air, is well indicated."

How is this project going? Can you get her to the next South'n Spine Raid?

Put a fresh set of Tekno panniers on the Sport and , with new Alpinestar boots and a new Shoei NeoTech, rode some brisk Interstate to spend the afternoon with a few fellow SpineRaiders. Many thanks to footgoose, and to waspp, for the chance to refresh my Tekno panniers!

It is also quite easy to create a diversion by saying, "My bike has a funny noise" (or a little leak, or something loose . . .) The entourage, in its entirety, will surround the hapless beast, tool rolls in hand, champing at the chance to turn a fastener or tweak a switch. Let there be hammers!

Best regards to our Ozark Spine Raid brothers and sisters!

Right? So many better options than those "carbon fiber wrapped" LaFranconi canisters. My early Guzzi "Off-Road Only" accessory (Mistral) canisters must be 1/4" (6mm) thick of carbon fiber. So many great sounding, better running canisters than the factory (constrained) parts . . .