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Hello all, I noticed I had oil below the bike on the garage floor, turned out it was coming from the screw of the shaft at the bottom of the starter as shown below (not my starter but labelled in the same place).
Has anyone had this issue and know whether it's as simple as screwing the shaft out and replacing the o-ring (hopefully with minimal oil draining out)? Also to save me some guessing (from those of you who have been guessing long enough that it's not really a guess anymore), what size o-ring would this be?
Also this likely provides evidence for the case of not switching to synthetic on these bikes as I did not notice this leak before changing from black 2 year old mystery PO oil.

Has anyone had this issue and know whether it's as simple as screwing the shaft out and replacing the o-ring (hopefully with minimal oil draining out)? Also to save me some guessing (from those of you who have been guessing long enough that it's not really a guess anymore), what size o-ring would this be?
Also this likely provides evidence for the case of not switching to synthetic on these bikes as I did not notice this leak before changing from black 2 year old mystery PO oil.