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I decided to chase down a few leaks today, the drive sprocket shaft being one of them. Oil appears to be leaking out from the center of the spacer.

Is there supposed to be an o ring behind it or something? The transmission seals are new. Oil seems to be leaking from between the drive shaft and the "collar" or metal spacer. This is on a H2a

There is a o ring on the other end of the collar that gets destroyed when you tighten down the sprocket. That's probably it.

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

towards the transmission, right? can't see how it would work towards the sprocket. It never had one when I disassembled it.

44 92055-035 « O » RING 1 (H2 manual)

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

behind the sleeve away from the sprocket.

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

Great, thanks guys!

The placement of the O-ring has been discussed before and its placement is not shown correctly in a lot of manuals and parts books. Look here: http://www.3cyl.com/mraxl/manuals/maint ... .htm#trans
and pay close attention to the note in red.

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Note: The O-Ring shown behind the engine sprocket should be located between the spacer and ball bearing.

Wow, thanks Dale, Manuals are all wrong! Wholly buckets.

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...

A trap for young players, that one, and another reason tips like that make this site so valuable - and the resource site, of course!

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The steel spacer collar should also have one end of it with a larger chamfer than the other. The larger chamfer goes in, it holds the O ring in position. The O ring actually takes the shape of the chamfer, and the bearing relief in the inner race to shaft interface as it is pancaked into place.