The grease that the part were lightly packed with will eventually sort
of spread around that boot edge. Sounds pretty normal to me for that
age.
Wilko
On Mar 27, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> Was under the dash putting the speedo back in and noticed a slight
> bit of wetness around the rubber dust boot on the clutch M/C.
> Pulled the boot off, and there was just a teensy smear of fluid on
> the cyl, and a bit of dark gray greasy crud where the pushrod goes
> through the retaining washer. Fluid use/loss is negligible, about
> what you'd expect from brake surface wear. The outside of the M/C
> is dry and clutch works fine. I use silicone brake/clutch fluid,
> FWIW. The M/C is one of the iron Lucas types Moss was selling a few
> years ago, and probably 6-8 yrs-- +/- 30K miles--old.
>
> My question to the List is: am I in danger of imminent/eventual
> failure of the M/C, or is this no big deal and to be expected, or
> something in between?
>
>
> Bob
>
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