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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nobull1" data-source="post: 11333" data-attributes="member: 722">OK so here's the story I went out to weld the nut to the threaded insert and made a new discovery. The horizontal seal was now sitting loose on the shaft by the pulley. I have no idea how or why that happened, but know it wasn't like that that the last time I looked at it. What I did notice was the remaining oil was now dropping down on the main drive belt and leaking down on top of the gas tank. This made a bad situation take a turn for the worst. So the first thing I tried was to remove the pulley to get the seal out and do a replacement. I cleaned the exposed shaft and loosed the two set screws. I used the gear assembly to place a pry bar on each side of to try and pry off the pulley. Well no way was that pulley going to move, even with two three foot bars for levers. After carefully thought I said I will try to get the seal back into the housing to see if it was a tight fit or not. The seal was a job to install using two flat ended bars, it was not loose at all once I finally got it installed.... don't know why it came loose. Now I am off to to the allen head bolt to try and weld a nut to. I used an appropriate nut and welded all around inside of the allen bolt right out to the end of the nut. I then put a socket on the nut and turned it very easily. A little bit of effort and the nut separated from the allen bolt. The weld just didn't want to take to the allen bolt for whatever reason. Now it was time to make another decision of what to do. I decided I would drill right through the allen bolt and try a easy out. I used a lot of grease on the drill bit to prevent pieces of metal from the drilling to enter the gear assembly. I tried a easy out and had no luck and was nervous about breaking the easy out off in the hole n( knowing how my day was going so far).  So the drilled hole gave me a hole to add fluid to and I figured that was the route to go. I found some 90/140 oil and thought I would give that a try. I used the nozzle on the container and installed the oil up to the full level. I found a piece that I could use for a plug and installed it and went for a test drive. After about 1 hour of use I noticed it had leaked a fair amount of oil and was thinking this isn't going to work. Now I decided that I was going to try the grease in the gear assembly as a final solution. I took the plug out and pumped a fair amount of grease into the assembly than plugged the hole and went for a test drive. The first thing I noticed was how much quieter it was. After about a hour of use I checked for leaks and found it had leaked some(clear oil, not grease oil mix), but not as much as before. I cleaned off the oil and went to work for a couple of hours and now have almost no leak. The grease/oil mix seems to be the answer to the problem for at least the short term and hopefully a permanent solution. I will continue to monitor this solution and will let everyone know how it works in the end.</blockquote>

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