Nighthawk-Forums.com - Your Honda Nighthawk Motorcycle Forum !
May 24, 2012, 11:49:30 PM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News: Happy 4th Birthday Nighthawk-forums.com!  wings
 
   Home   Help Search Member Map Contact Login Register  

Nighthawk-Forums.com - Your Honda Nighthawk Motorcycle Forum ! > Motorcycle Forums > Honda CB Territory > CB Tech Help > slight oil leak from generator....
Pages: [1]   Go Down
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: slight oil leak from generator....  (Read 672 times)
0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.
svtfmook Topic starter
Member
**
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 57

Join Date: Sep, 2009





Ignore
« on: October 03, 2009, 09:15:56 PM »
have a small amount of oil coming out of from the generator.  i'm assuming it's either the o-ring around the rotor shaft or the seal around the back of the housing.  anyone experience this?
Logged
Hangster
Guest
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2009, 09:36:10 PM »
are you talking about the alternator?...I've replaced the O-ring and Oil Seal on mine ...that's about the only way to stop the leak
Logged
svtfmook Topic starter
Member
**
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 57

Join Date: Sep, 2009





Ignore
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 09:39:17 PM »
yeah.  it's very slight leak.  i sprayed trichloroethane into it to clean it out really good.  i'm assuming it's the rotor shaft o-ring in the back.  i had it all apart 2 weeks ago, i really don't feel like tearing it down again.  it's still charging really good.  i think i will go with the "wipe it off every now and then" fix
Logged
Hangster
Guest
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2009, 09:53:13 PM »
Unfortunatley the leak will only get worse ......it doesn't take long to fix it  and the parts are cheap at BikeBandit ...if you do it right you won''t  have to mess with it for the next 25 years  poke
Logged
svtfmook Topic starter
Member
**
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Age: 35
Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 57

Join Date: Sep, 2009





Ignore
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 03:14:51 PM »
it seems that the leak stopped
Logged
gammer
Crazy Canuck
Senior Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Age: 38
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Bike: 85 NH 750S - cam mod, K&N, jet kit, MAC pipe, Andrews ign.
Posts: 5409

Join Date: Jul, 2008


"Hang on lady, we going for a ride" - Short Round


WWW

Ignore
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 09:43:03 AM »
That is a common spot for the oil to leak on the Nighthawks.
I've seen folks fix the leak by taking Alternator off, cleaning it up and applying some hi temp 'goop' around the rubber seal. Otherwise, replacing the seal would be best.
svtfmook, hopefully your leak does not return.
Logged
Certifiably not certified.
Technical answers based on experience
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Copyright© 2008 - 2012 Nighthawk-Forums.com
All Rights Reserved
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.16 | SMF © 2011, Simple Machines | Sitemap Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!