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fuel leaks

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Last Sunday I needed gas. I rode to work and went looking for ?cheap? gas. I found an open station and filled up.
On my ride to work I smelled gas, I thought I had spilled some on the tank that I hadn?t cleaned off; I didn?t give too much thought. The next morning I decided to warm up the bike in the garage. I started it and went back to the house for the rest of stuff to go off to another day of fun filled work. There was a four foot round puddle of fuel under the machine when I returned. My first thought was how I had missed this when I started the bike. I was quick to realize it wasn?t there before I started the bike, I rode to work anyway. I was expecting to see a fuel spill reminiscent of the Exxon Valdez. No spill!? I realized the vacuum line had shut off the gas so it would not have made a mess. I rode it home and smelled gas most of the way.
At home I set the bike on the center stand and pulled one side cover and saw gas coming from one of the overflow hoses attached to bottom of the carbs. It sort of pulsed out. I watched and noticed it to be rather regular. I narrowed it down to one carb and also noticed the flow was about .5 oz every 1.5 minutes. If I revved the engine over 4000 rpm it stopped. At idle it was sort of regular. I tapped the carb and I thought it stopped. I worked on one of the bike other minor problems for a bit and solved that one. I checked the leak again and it seemed to have quit.
Happy with my mastery of the issue I fired the bike up for a return trip to work and was disappointed to find it was now spurting all the time!
I am mostly sure there is something stuck in the float valve or that the float is not right somehow. Before I rip into this thing in the morning anyone got some suggestions for a quick and easy fix? Stop laughing. :oIf not easy fixes, conjectures as to why this started so fast?
Thanks,
bill
 
Try taking a plastic handled screwdriver or hammer handle and tapping on the side of the offending float bowl. This will sometimes knock loose a hanging float. Be gentle so you don't break the bowl.
 
Last time for me there was a little chunk of wood stuck in the valve.

If the tapping does not fix it, take it apart to see what's in there.
 
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Crap in the line

Crap in the line

HI,
There are no easy ways to clear a stuck float valve!:o

Well, I torn the old girl apart, tank off, fairing off, you name it off. (Oh yeah, as an aside to folks that ride without a fairing... YOU ARE NUTS.)Carbs off, apart and there was a boulder under the float, (Robert Barr is right, compressed air is a Godsend.) cleaned it all up and nice and spanking clean, adjusted the pilots (Mr. tkent, that worked great tkx.) Snapped it all back together and rode off.

This is how I know you fairingless folks aren't right. I tested without the Windjammer and was almost blown off the old girl. You like the feeling of.... well, I don't know standing naked in a hurrican? I like hidding behind the Windjammer, it's warmer.

Thanks to all that had suggestions and a chuckle at my minor dilima, it's alway fun in Pa.

p.s. the Monsoons started as I got the bike all back together, maybe tomorrow I'll get to ride:mad:.
bill
 
officerbill said:
HI,
There are no easy ways to clear a stuck float valve!:o

Well, I torn the old girl apart, tank off, fairing off, you name it off. (Oh yeah, as an aside to folks that ride without a fairing... YOU ARE NUTS.)Carbs off, apart and there was a boulder under the float, (Robert Barr is right, compressed air is a Godsend.) cleaned it all up and nice and spanking clean, adjusted the pilots (Mr. tkent, that worked great tkx.) Snapped it all back together and rode off.

This is how I know you fairingless folks aren't right. I tested without the Windjammer and was almost blown off the old girl. You like the feeling of.... well, I don't know standing naked in a hurrican? I like hidding behind the Windjammer, it's warmer.

Thanks to all that had suggestions and a chuckle at my minor dilima, it's alway fun in Pa.

p.s. the Monsoons started as I got the bike all back together, maybe tomorrow I'll get to ride:mad:.
bill
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can you define boulder?
 
Ok , I exagerate. It was a small bit of some sort of crap the size of a pencil point. Just enough to block the passage. Opening up the pilots was great advice. It runs great and started a whole lot easier.
bill
 
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