The Honda’s been leaving a calling card where ever I park it these days and it’s been getting worse.

The leak was coming from around the oil filter housing, so I thought a simple trip to a Honda dealer would result in a few oil seals and an oil filter.

Not so…, the the very polite parts guy calmly tells me that little O ring seal will be coming from Japan in 3 weeks time.

A search online results in finding out it’s dimensions are 81mm * 4.5mm diameter.

The local engineering shop had a similar one, at 4mm diameter, but it still leaked like a sieve.

Ebay had a few original ones listed, (new old stock), but when you live at the bottom of the world, things ordered from oversea’s have a habit of taking forever to turn up or sometimes not at all…

I’m sure I could keep hassling the friendly corporate Romans at the Honda shop, and I’m sure they will give me a nice reassuring answer, but no seal…

So, rather than wait, possibly forever, it’s time for a bit of ingenuity, or something like that, because not having a useable motorcycle sucks.

In the end, I simply made a normal gasket and fixed the problem!

Sometimes, the easist solutions are the best.