Quote Originally Posted by nhengineer View Post
That's telling me oil was leaking past the ram cup.
One can not make that assumption based on the evidence.
If it was the ram cup that sprung a leak, the oil should have been kept in place by the O-ring wiper seal, which it wasn't.
On the other hand if the wiper seal leaked, which it did, then that alone gives no reason to suspect that the cup seal had leaked also, there was plenty of oil in the outer canister and my header tank to leak out without the cup seal leaking as well.

Yes New Boston is nice and I could make as much noise as I wanted. My house backed on to 500 acres of woods so plenty of trail riding and dog walking opportunity. The winters were too long and cold for my liking, my first winter there was the year of the famous ice storm. I assumed that it was normal winter weather there and I struggled into work to find only one other had made it in. It was only then that I realised that it was exceptional.
Still, I was sad to leave when my visa ran out, I liked living there.