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Congrats and enjoy, I am sure that bike on the road is also rather quick.....quick enough to get you into trouble with the traffic dept.

The news is in, it is the base gasket, but it is meant to be a very small / slow leak that I do not have to worry about now. So I am not going to worry now. I can get the base gaskets for under 1K and could take on the project during the Dec. holidays. I met a guy in Melkbos that did his 950's base gaskets a month or two ago, and he recons you can remove the top end mostly intact. But these are my Dec. holidays and I want to be riding the bike, not working on the bike. You can also take the approach of giving the motor a refresh if you are taking it apart, a full gasket pack is around the 7.5K mark, then that excludes pistons, rings, whatever else needs to be replaced. I have been cautioned this can very quickly sit around the 25+K mark.... now things are getting serious. One can then say the motor is good to go then for at least the next 70K/km, it is just a question of do I want to be doing the next 70K/km of my riding on this bike vs another bike.

Dropped the bike off at the workshop, they will take the tanks, etc off and see if they can trace the leak. So here is holding thumbs it is just the o-rings.

Maybe a little Lectron magic?

Sounds right, but I recon they could get past the FI/emissions thing as the bike is a "classic"

My one neighbour has a 1190R that he rips around on, and it is a really nice bike. He is doing his 3rd Roof of Africa this year, and is a medal contender on Enduro Races in the WC (In his age group) ... so he knows how to ride on dirt, and he loves this bike. I should add though, he has mentioned he misses his old 990.

LC8's go BRRAAAAPPPPPP

Looking forward to the next episode where they break down what they did to the bike

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that bike properly wet itself

Will check the levels every other ride, or when I fill up (Which is very often on the 950)

The result of 4 x rides over the weekend where the engine gets up to temp and sustains the temp for a good while. Ignore the oil saturated in the old garage floor ... this is a project for Dec. holidays to clean and probably paint.

Cool, will keep an eye on the sweat and rev it like a rental

The fuel pump has been replaced with an upgraded unit that resolved the ex. KTM fuel pump issues (Thank fully). It is more of a sweat I would say, so a drop or two after a decent ride. I am two rides down now, and there is still no oil on the white paper I am placing under the bike.

Took her out now this morning for a quick spin .... she (To me at least) looks, feels and sounds awesome.

So the old oil leak/sweat that the KTM had I thought would have been sorted when we replaced the hairline cracked stator cover, did not go away. Took her back to the KTM dudes who took another look and are in two minds as to the leak. 1. The nice leak = o-rings at the fuel pump. 2. The ugly leak = the base gaskets, both of them on the v-twin. The KTM dudes cleaned the motor up nicely, and I collected her today in order to put a bit of mileage on her so that they can try and trace the leak. Gut feel though by the KTM dudes it that it is the base gaskets, and if this is the case, then I will have to rethink this bike in a big way. A. I can either just replace the base gasket and move on hoping that the bike is good to go. B. I can replace the gasket, sell her to try and recoup some money and buy a new bike, but I will be a good few thousand ZARS in the red. C. Bite the bullet, when the engine is open, do a full refresh of the motor. The only issue the price tag associated with this decision, and it is a price I do not think I am willing to pay. So by end of next week I will have a better idea of where I stand. BUT Screw this chop who I bought the bike from (To be fair he only had the bike for a few months and put around 400km on her), but more so the guy who he bought the bike from.....unless when he sold the bike to the guy I bought the bike from and declared the issues with the bike (Current and previous ones I have sorted out).

You can tell her she is just bragging now

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