There's a hole in the engine, dear Liza, dear Liza.

[burp reynolds]

An oil leak suddenly appeared in my '79 GS1000E, and I promptly (well, prompt for a tree) opened up the cover over the drive sprocket to see what the matter was. I found my sprocket's nut missing, but the spacer and washer were lying in the bottom of the cover. I figured it wouldn't hurt to replace the nut, and I found one at the Ace hardware (fine thread M20) for a buck forty. I had hoped that this would fix the leak, but apparently not.

So, I cleaned up the area behind the cover, and found this.

Question: why is there a hole in my crankcase with oil gushing out of it?

Question 2: does something belong in this hole? If so, what?

I was all ready to rebuild the engine before I saw that all of the oil was coming out of this hole. Maybe it's a minor thing. Or maybe nothing goes in this hole, and the problem is on the other side of the crankcase wall. What do you guys think?

[asetech]

That is a drain for your starter cavity. It is supposed to be there and is not supposed to be plugged. your starter seal, cam tensioner could be leaking. cyl. base gasket. http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=131694

[rustybronco]

Search for starter oring Burp! (excuse me...)
such as... http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...398#post837398

[burp reynolds]

That is a drain for your starter cavity. It is supposed to be there and is not supposed to be plugged. your starter seal, cam tensioner could be leaking. cyl. base gasket. http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=131694

Oh jeez. I should've known that. I constantly worry about the gas dribbling into my starter well. (I DID change the needle valves and seats!) Allright, I'll pull the starter cover.

[Steve]

I must have missed something somewhere.

I clicked on his "this" link and got an index to 23 Picassa albums, none of which apparently contained anything about a hole in a motorcycle engine.

True, I only opened one of them, it was the only one with a motorcycle on the cover, but it did not show any holes.

.

[Big T]

I must have missed something somewhere.

I clicked on his "this" link and got an index to 23 Picassa albums, none of which apparently contained anything about a hole in a motorcycle engine.

True, I only opened one of them, it was the only one with a motorcycle on the cover, but it did not show any holes.

.

Same here

Burp, how about using copy and paste to give us some real photos???

[yank]

could it be the fuel mixing with dirt,grime,and sludge dripping out?

[yank]

my bad ,your first post said Gushing oil.

[Dave_17954]

god I love mystery hole stories

[burp reynolds]

[QUOTE=Steve;1051370I clicked on his "this" link...none of...a hole in a motorcycle engine.

.[/QUOTE]
That's odd. Works for me. I just marked the album 'public'. That should help. I thought having a link would get you into an 'unlisted' album, but maybe not.

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[edit] the forum's not letting me paste photos into my reply. Can somebody see if correcting the 'unlisted' thing worked?

[Guest]

Unless I can't see it, you need to bend the washer on the sproket over the nut after it's good and tight. That will prevent it coming off again.

[burp reynolds]

Unless I can't see it, you need to bend the washer on the sproket over the nut after it's good and tight. That will prevent it coming off again.

Ah. Of course. Thank you.

[yank]

BIKE PORN... The Administrator must have removed it for haveing your finger in the hole.

[burp reynolds]

BIKE PORN... The Administrator must have removed it for haveing your finger in the hole.

That rascally prude of an admin!

[errorcauser]

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