Oil Leaking from delivery line

[Guest scooterneal]

Noticed a leak in my oil delivery line. Is this normal wear or is it caused by pressure problems? It's a 2000 Basa w/ 22,000 miles on it.

[Greg Field]

Most likely normal wear.

[jrt]

I don't know how the Bassa oil lines are constructed, but I've replaced all my old-style cloth covered lines with either hard-piped steel (from the Eldorado) or use the stainless steel braided line. The fittings seem to leak on the cloth-covered stuff.

Be sure an use all new crush washers (6 of them) when you install new ones. If you careful, you can put a *very small amount* of teflon sealant on the fastener threads (not tape- use the liquid stuff).