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Main Area => General GS500 Discussion => Topic started by: airbrush on June 25, 2004, 02:56:52 PM

Title: fuel overflow
Post by: airbrush on June 25, 2004, 02:56:52 PM
just wondering if anyone has had this happening to them. Came out to my bike today to find a wet patch of pavement under my bike. Fuel had been coming out of the overflow tube. Looks like it had been doing it for a while judging from the area. Shouldnt the vent in the top of the tank prevent this? And when i started it up, fuel immeditately started leaking from the overflow tube until it was running for a while.
Title: fuel overflow
Post by: Rema1000 on June 25, 2004, 03:22:15 PM
You get a similar effect if you have the petcock on PRIme and there is a problem with a float needle or float.  

There's also a fuel overflow that discards fuel that sloshes out of the tank while you fill it, but I don't think that could dump fuel while the bike is just parked.
Title: fuel overflow
Post by: airbrush on June 25, 2004, 03:45:30 PM
i leave it in the on position. So maybe the float is sticking then??
Title: Busted petcock...
Post by: The Buddha on June 25, 2004, 07:34:02 PM
Float sticking and busted petcock... On should only let fuel in the line flow into float when its off... if more of it flowed and into the airbox and onto the pavement... the on is actually like prime... busted...
Cool.
Srinath.