oil leaking stator

I noticed today that I have oil dripping through the stator area for some reason, I thought the stator was a dry area?

That's what I thought (on mine) until I opened it up and saw that there are a couple of gears in there that have to be oiled. The starter idler gear meshes to the starter clutch gear to crank the motor.

On mine (and I've heard from several others) were the stator wires come out of the motor is a common area to have an oil leak. The rubber grommet that the wires come through gets old and shrinks.

I don't think you're supposed to have oil leaking out there! Time to get dirty!:blink:

ejshotgun wrote:

On mine (and I've heard from several others) were the stator wires come out of the motor is a common area to have an oil leak. The rubber grommet that the wires come through gets old and shrinks.

i looked at a kz1000 last autumn and the only problem was the same oil leak described here, that the vendor also said was fairly common. he suggested silicone, but here's another fix:

www.z1enterprises.com/detail.aspx?ID=373