Oil Leak from internal (78 kz650d)

[beardcaller]

I went to start my 78 kz650d and once it started oil began pouring out from behind the left engine cover around the shifter. My neighbor, who has ridden motorcycles since 14, came and helped me thinking it was just a bad seal around the filter or something. So we did a complete oil change filter included. When we went to start it again the bike poured out about 150 -200ml of oil then stopped. We took the cover off as well as the footpeg and shifting lever, what we discovered is the oil is leaking from a long rod that runs through the bike. Does anyone know what this is or how to fix it. It no longer leaks but i am assuming there used to be somesort of gasket there but i am not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Corey

 

[beardcaller]

In case anyone is following this with a similar problem the leak was found to be coming from the clutch push rob. The fix is a simple oil seal that goes in right over the rod. The details can be found in my thread over on kz650.info

http://forums.kz650.info/index.php?topic=7219.msg64520#msg64520

Hopefully this will help anybody who has the same problem.