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looking at a '90 PC
Written by lcshepp on 12/1/2010 at 04:13 am

Hi,

>
> I saw a 1990 PC for sale with 73,000 miles on it. It looks very clean,
> plastics are good, well maintained throughout it's life but the
> present owner says it drips a drop or two of oil, and the shop that
> just serviced it thought it was coming from the cam seals and didn't
> do anything about it, just said it wasn't a big enough problem at
> present to fix it.

My '94 started dripping oil at about 74,000 miles. At 211,500 miles,
I'm going to fix it. That is, I'm going to swap engines. I never did
anything about the drip.

My '90 started dripping oil not too long after I got it. It's had a
fairly hard life with me doing all of my IBA runs at 80mph on that
bike. It has 109,000 plus on it and I currently have it torn apart to
repair a busted water hose and to replace some plastic that a deer
messed up for me. I will NOT be fixing the cam seal leak.

It's not the neatest solution in the world; the engines on the above two
bikes are grimy.

Some people can't stand the drip; I just ignored it.

Interestingly, my '89 has never dripped and burns almost nothing and has
over 124,000 miles on it... So much for '89s not being a good year...

Hope you enjoy the PC.

Leland

--
Leland Sheppard
Placerville, California, USA

...Life is good on the Pacific Coast...

'94 Pacific Coast, "Black Beauty", 211,500 miles
'89 Pacific Coast, "Shadow Dancer", 124,100 miles
'90 Pacific Coast, "Red Baron", 109,065 miles
'96 Pacific Coast/SuperSport sidecar, "Handsome Hannigan", 31,275 miles
'02 Ural Patrol, "Boris Blueanov", 15,282 kilometers
'89 GB500, "Little Bugger", 13,875 miles
'02 GL1800, "Copper", 59,200, '07 Aspen Classic, "Copper's Camper", 2,011 miles
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