Gas odour 81 FXB
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Gas caps vents open
caps designed to hold back some pressure if older and rubber cracked or shrunk back you will get gas vapor smell. Also check gaskets and orings Luck. Wild Bill
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Thanks, I'll check on that. Gas cap seals appear ok. I did find a drip of gas on the bottom of the carb (S&S). Dried off and no apparent leak after sitting several hours. Perhaps only appears when riding. Unfortunately we are looking at a week of rain coming up so it will be a while before I can get out for another run.
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Thanks, I'll check on that. Gas cap seals appear ok. I did find a drip of gas on the bottom of the carb (S&S). Dried off and no apparent leak after sitting several hours. Perhaps only appears when riding. Unfortunately we are looking at a week of rain coming up so it will be a while before I can get out for another run.
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Yup, all the indications are for something causing an overflow in the bowl, either grit in the valve or float problem. I'll try the empty and flush trick on the carb but likely it will have to come off for a a proper cleaning or rebuild kit. Going to put some sort of in-line fuel filtering on too (can't imagine why there isn't one there already). Other than the keak it runs like a kitten!
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