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Offline BrettS

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Second attempt at oil leak, a little advice please.
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2013, 11:22:21 AM »
I noticed the oil was leaking from the gearbox. Well when I went to fix it the first time I thought it was engine oil that was leaking. I removed the hex head bolts and then with some persuasion the cover plate. I realised there was also a spacer or something of the like after the cover plate. I was not game to force this off so I just made a new gasket out of a cornflakes packet applied liberal gasket goo and replaced. At first this seemed to slow the leak at least.
Then recently on a short trip out of town to meet up with Jonesy I checked all the oils and found the middle gear oil to be very low. Topped this up and found that the leak was actually the middle gear oil and was still quite bad.
So my question is can I also simply remove this "spacer" behind the cover plate, what am I actually messing with here and although I reckon my cornflake packet gasket was a ripper if I was to buy gaskets for here which kit would they come in?