Clutch oil gone!

bikeboardsurf · 02-02-2009, 10:35 AM

Hi,
My clutch oil ran completely dry when I was in the middle of London, with great difficulty I maanged to get it home. Whats the story if I need to sort this, do I just buy some KTM clutch oil put it in, do I have to bleed the system, presumably there will be some air in the line?

bajadog · 02-02-2009, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bikeboardsurf

Hi,
My clutch oil ran completely dry when I was in the middle of London, with great difficulty I maanged to get it home. Whats the story if I need to sort this, do I just buy some KTM clutch oil put it in, do I have to bleed the system, presumably there will be some air in the line?

Bleed it at the slave or you will have a spongy clutch that
pulsates at red lights.

bikeboardsurf · 02-04-2009, 01:11 AM

Cheers, will look into it soon, is there anything that might cause complications, or anything I should look out for?

bajadog · 02-04-2009, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by bikeboardsurf

Cheers, will look into it soon, is there anything that might cause complications, or anything I should look out for?

Only if you use the wrong fluid.

My ex- 2003 EXC with the magura clutch used mineral oil, but I understand
that the newer KTMs with brembos use brake fluid DOT 4.

Chuckracer · 02-05-2009, 08:43 PM

Where did the oil go? What bike are we talking about here?

bikeboardsurf · 02-06-2009, 03:50 PM

Its a KTM Superduke. I presume there wasnt very much oil in there in the frist place (well Im hoping this is the case rather than my clutch is shot), I use the clutch a lot in London traffic so its probably something to do with this.

bajadog · 02-06-2009, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by bikeboardsurf

Its a KTM Superduke. I presume there wasnt very much oil in there in the frist place (well Im hoping this is the case rather than my clutch is shot), I use the clutch a lot in London traffic so its probably something to do with this.

I am sure you would see some tell tale signs of an oil leak at the clutch
slave or master cylinder.

I went through all the fiber disks on my EXC clutch once, and only dropped
the master oil level by about 1/2 the volume.

It is possible, that the oil leaked though the slave, into the clutch cover.
This would mean you had a breach in the left side case.

bajadog · 04-19-2010, 09:56 AM

Where was the leak?