I get one or two clear clean green drops every day. The coolant is that is leaked is not dirty.
This is pretty much what happens in a textbook case of clamp leakage. There's an old thread about this that's worth a read if you haven't already seen it:
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The aluminum fittings shrink faster than the steel clamps as they cool, which causes the clamps to lose grip and leak at start-up. As the engine warms up and the system comes out of bypass, the fittings expand, the leak stops and the heat dries everything up while you're riding. What you need to do is reach around to the bottom of the fittings and give them a good rub with your fingertip. If the clamps are loose, you'll feel some dried green blood under there.
Gravity pulls whatever leaks into the drain channel pretty quickly, which is why it's always clean.
It seems to me that only the very bottom of the seam is wet. I do not know were the channel from the vee comes into the seem. I was assuming it is simply at the top?
There's a hole there somewhere. I've seen pictures that show it but for the life of me can't find them. The drain channel runs along the gap between the crankcase cover and the water pump cover. Depending on whether your bike is on the side or center stand while you're warming up, the coolant will exit at the front of the gap above the bulge for the clutch or the square hole on the right side.
In any case if nothing from the weep hole is there another gasket or area that can leak around the water pump?
Other than the impeller seals, there's only one gasket that keeps the water pump from leaking. I don't think those have a history of failure. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think most of the few water pump failures we've had were the seals.
--Mark
