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Author Topic: Frustrating start to the season  (Read 1326 times)
DGS65
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« on: March 07, 2020, 02:12:46 PM »

Today I went to pickup my bike from storage at my in laws.  It was a little hard to start  then once started it ran rough for a bit.  I wasn't too concerned being I had run it dry at the end of the season as it started to smooth out my wife came over and notice there was a very steady drip maybe light stream of fuel.  It was very hard to see were the leak was coming from but again the bike sat dry so I assumed the floats were stuck,  I tried tapping the bowls it seemed to slow up a bit but not stop completely.   Being the bike was now running Pretty well I decided to drive it home were I can further work on it with tools at my disposal.  When I got it home I poured whatever seafoam I had in the tank and began looking closer, I found one of the hose lines from the carbs loose and fuel was dripping once reconnected the leak appears to have stopped.  I'm hoping this is all it was but I suspect it was part of a bigger problem.   
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2020, 03:58:23 PM »

What “hose line” are you referring to?
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DGS65
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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2020, 05:29:31 PM »

Oddly the drain hose which would mean one of the other carbs is draining and backing up into the another but why didn't it drain out the bottom?
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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2020, 07:18:45 PM »

Sounds like fuel rail o-rings to me.
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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2020, 06:41:26 AM »

Let the o rings swell a little now that they are in contact with fuel.  Check it in a day or 2.
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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2020, 06:36:12 PM »

Sounds like fuel rail o-rings to me.

Agreed...
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DGS65
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2020, 07:59:53 PM »

Update as many suspected it was likely the Orings  which seem to have corrected themselves once the swelled.
I had time to let the bike run in my driveway for a bit with seafoam in the tank.  I'm happy to say everything is working properly and the bike is running great.  I took it for a short ride and it runs like a charm plenty of power to get up and go!
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