oil leak

[His Dudeness]

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Well I've got the new seal in after a load of farting about trying to get the rotor off. Hopefully it seals and I never have to do it again but my question now is I've tighten the centre bolt that holds the rotor on onto the crank to the recommended torque. Can I assume that the rotor is now pressed back far enough onto the crank since the bolt is tightened to the recommended torque?

I see you had as much fun as I had trying to get the foccing rotor off  :eek
If you torqued it to the recommended setting, all will be well.
Put it all back together and see if the leak is fixed, as there is no other way of testing it.
Let us know if it is fixed. as it may not have been the seal. Mine wasn't :'(
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Yeah getting the rotor off was a bit scary. It took a serious amount of force to pop it off. I would have given up on it for fear of breaking the crank if you hadn't said how tight yours was on. I used a 2mm drill bit and drilled into the seal then screwed a screw about one thread into the seal and pulled the seal out evenly with a vice grips on the end of the screw. I'm pretty sure it was the seal that was leaking because there was a small amount of oil on the outside of the seal when I took the rotor off so hopefully the new seal does the trick. I took the bike for a half hour spin last night and checked this morning and there was no oil so hopefully it's sorted. Thanks again for the advice and pictures you sent to me

Nick I bought a generic puller and holder off ebay but they weren't strong enough so I ended up using the ebay puller as a template and making my own puller from some 2" scrap steel.