Stovebolt
Member
Anybody have any problems with their valve covers leaking? I have an '07 I bought new and last year I had to take it in to have the rear valve cover resealed and it still weeps just a little. I can clean it up very easily when I wash the bike so I can live with that for now. I've been smelling oil "cooking" since then and I thought maybe it was just some of the oil I didn't get cleaned off when the rear vc was fixed. Oh no it wasn't! I just happened to look a little closer when I washed my bike to day and found something I don't like very much. I noticed that one of the bare edges of the cooling fins on the left side of the front jug (blacked out engine XL1200C) was black looking. Oil is leaking out all over the front jug and has been "washing" down the side of the engine for who knows how long. The whole front of the front jug is coated with the black goo! Dang it! So I gotta take it in again! Anyone else experience this? I'm starting to think that HD needs to find a solution to the "leaking" nature of their bikes. I mean it's been what, 106 years? Come on HD get with it!:small3d023: