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Thumper · #1 Post by **Thumper** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:27 pm

Got talking to a aprilia rider in the pub worried sick about his engine burning oil

he spent a small fortune at his dealer with no result. In conversation he told me the problem started after he had a new clutch fitted.!!
This set alarm bells ringing for me as i remembered reading about a similar problem anyhow cutting a long story short we had the cover off his clutch and yes a small nick in the rubber diaphragm was found. some carefully applied brake cleaner and a puncture outfit patch provided a repair and guess what no more burning oil

D-Rider · #2 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:19 pm

Yeah - that is a good point to remember - cheers

(BTW, I'll copy this to the Aprilia Technical section as it affects all of the V60s)

sl1000_dk · #3 Post by **sl1000_dk** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:45 pm

My falco have started to use oil, smell, and smoke.
I read this thread yesterday and decided to check out the clutch today and, yes the diaphragm had a small hole(see pic 6). how much oil are there supposed to be between the clutchcover and the diaphragm ?
There were about 10-15 cl oil in mine( see pic. 4)

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Falco9 · #4 Post by **Falco9** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:07 pm

I'm pretty certain that when I changed my clutch plates to Barnett ones the space between the casing and the diaphragm was completely dry on my Falco.

I dont even remember seeing that much oil anywhere but I had put the bike on the stand to prevent me from even having to drain the oil

Hope I'm wrong in this case for once !

F9

sl1000_dk · #5 Post by **sl1000_dk** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:51 pm

Thanks for the the reply falco 9, but why do you hope that your wrong.
I´m happy if i change the diaphragm and it will solve my problem. I was ready to take the engine out, and change the pistons ring.

regards

Martin Poll

Falco9 · #6 Post by **Falco9** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:01 pm

sl1000_dk wrote:Thanks for the the reply falco 9, but why do you hope that your wrong.
I´m happy if i change the diaphragm and it will solve my problem. I was ready to take the engine out, and change the pistons ring.

regards

Martin Poll

Hi Martin,

I cannot understand why I said that either....I was tired I guess

Hope this fixes you're problem though!

F9

HowardQ · #7 Post by **HowardQ** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:48 pm

Yeh, not having to rebuild an engine, just replace a diaphragm seems pretty good news to me too!
Hope it has cured it.

Thumper · #8 Post by **Thumper** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:00 pm

Another reported cause of clutch slipping problems can often be a plastic non return valve that lives some ware up above the clutch and connected to a tube up to the air box but I never found mine when I wanted to check it..