New Tires=Oil Leak?

[Disliked23]

Got some new tires on the 450 last weekend and they are a bit bigger than the originals. First ride, I pull into Fred Meyer, grab some things, and walk out to a 6x6 inch puddle coming from the kickstand. Check the oil, looks fine, so I ride home. Every stoplight, I lean over and look under the engine and there's four or five good sized drops on the ground. Get home and within 5 minutes there's a 12x12 puddle and then it just seems to stop and the puddle hasn't gotten bigger in a couple days. The only thing I noticed was that there's oil on the left side of my tread and the crankcase breather seems to line right up with the left side of the larger tire. Anything possibly make this not a coincidence? I don't understand what I could've done pulling wheels off the thing....

 

[Gage Werke Composites]

What year is your 450? Does it have a chain oiler (looks like a little set screw in the middle of the drive sprocket bolt)? Screwed all the way in = no oil, screwed all the way out = a lot of oil. It sounds like this could be where your oil leak it coming from. The screw might have worked it's way out too. I just screw mine all the way in tight and oil my chain the normal way.

 

[Disliked23]

Didn't think of that. I will check it out tonight. It's a 1970

 

[Gage Werke Composites]

So is mine. I left my chain oiler screw out by accident and she leaked pretty bad.