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LiberalArkie

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8. The oil filter was on top of the engine and mounted on a flange. The flange just had a gasket between it and the

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #7)

Sun Dec 21, 2025, 03:43 PM

Dec 2025

engine. Naturally being an air cooled engine, it ran hot. Really too hot for the paper gasket.

I kept replacing the gasket about every 6 months. So I pulled the flange off and took it to a machine shop and they milled a trough in it for a high temperature o-ring. I put it all back together with high temp grease and pressure washed everything and never smelt oil ever again.

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