23-06-19, 11:15 AM
The Happy foccer is no more!!! ?
After taking the bike out for a blast last night (had a ball) did around a 50 mile watering hole trip (only half a pint all told ?) when my friend said he could smell fuel, looked around the bike, checked carb bowls as put new gasket rubbers in, checked fuel lines, pump, overflow lines too, completely dry?
Rode home and parked up placing it on the sidestand, checked on the bike half hour later & noticed a small patch of yellowy brown liquid by the foot of the stand, sniffed it and it smelled like that breather pipe smell from the sump (hope you know what I mean?)
Followed it to the point of exit and it's coming from the bottom left front of the airbox!
From all I've read from various posts on here it sounds to me as if fuel has gotten both into the air filter & into the engine with the oil? I have recently changed the float seats (& O-rings) plus the float needles.
I didn't set the float height, just straight swapped them over.
What are your thoughts, do my symptoms point towards the float height?
After taking the bike out for a blast last night (had a ball) did around a 50 mile watering hole trip (only half a pint all told ?) when my friend said he could smell fuel, looked around the bike, checked carb bowls as put new gasket rubbers in, checked fuel lines, pump, overflow lines too, completely dry?
Rode home and parked up placing it on the sidestand, checked on the bike half hour later & noticed a small patch of yellowy brown liquid by the foot of the stand, sniffed it and it smelled like that breather pipe smell from the sump (hope you know what I mean?)
Followed it to the point of exit and it's coming from the bottom left front of the airbox!
From all I've read from various posts on here it sounds to me as if fuel has gotten both into the air filter & into the engine with the oil? I have recently changed the float seats (& O-rings) plus the float needles.
I didn't set the float height, just straight swapped them over.
What are your thoughts, do my symptoms point towards the float height?