nudemetalz
20th January 2007, 16:14
Greetings,
Been having a little bit of an issue with the RF400.
First of all it's got very high consumption for a 400, namely only getting 12-13 km/l, that's just cruising around !!. It carburetts fine and runs perfectly, with the plugs showing a good tan colour.
Also there's quite a petrol smell in the garage while it's parked.
I suspected a fuel leak so looked around the fuel tap, bottom of tank etc but appears to be okay.
So then figured (with help of Crasherfromwayback) the carbs overflow might be leaking due to one of 2 stuck floats.
So went to work to pull off the carbs.
Took the airbox off and then noticed something weird between the carbs, a connection pipe that looks like it should be connected. There's nothing on the airbox that relates to it.
It's like its a spare fuel line connector. Perhaps it's the cause of the fuel smell too.
I don't have access to an RF400 manual unfortunately so hopefully someone here who has experience with these or GSXR400 motors (which they're closely related to) can help??
I will still strip the carbs but want to check this out first.
I've enclosed some pics to show what I mean.
Thanks,
Chris
Been having a little bit of an issue with the RF400.
First of all it's got very high consumption for a 400, namely only getting 12-13 km/l, that's just cruising around !!. It carburetts fine and runs perfectly, with the plugs showing a good tan colour.
Also there's quite a petrol smell in the garage while it's parked.
I suspected a fuel leak so looked around the fuel tap, bottom of tank etc but appears to be okay.
So then figured (with help of Crasherfromwayback) the carbs overflow might be leaking due to one of 2 stuck floats.
So went to work to pull off the carbs.
Took the airbox off and then noticed something weird between the carbs, a connection pipe that looks like it should be connected. There's nothing on the airbox that relates to it.
It's like its a spare fuel line connector. Perhaps it's the cause of the fuel smell too.
I don't have access to an RF400 manual unfortunately so hopefully someone here who has experience with these or GSXR400 motors (which they're closely related to) can help??
I will still strip the carbs but want to check this out first.
I've enclosed some pics to show what I mean.
Thanks,
Chris