| Author | Message | ||
     Parrick |
Bought the bike & rode it home. Weather went to crap after that so it sits in the barn taunting me. Went out there last night and kicked on the heat. Brought it up to 65F from about 40F. After a couple hours noticed fuel puddling under the left side passenger foot peg. Looks like they moved the fuel tank overflow tube away from the muffler where previous posts describe it being located. Anyway, fuel is dripping out of the tube at a decent rate but all I did was heat up the barn. The bike hadn't been run yet and the engine was cold. I did a search and only came up with posts concerning hot engine fuel smell / boiling, etc. Anyone else have this problem? | ||
| Spectrum |
This is to some extent normal. Do a search and you will see it has been discussed. | ||
| Ccryder |
My 08' w/ the re-routed overflow will weep at times. Better location now, IMHO. | ||
| Rocketray |
This is interesting, because my bike is also leaving a small puddle of gas in my garage after each ride too. The interesting part is... I've been riding all year, and this has just started happening during the last two months or so. My best guess is, that the "winter" gasoline sold here in Colorado vaporizes at a lower temperature than the "summer" gas. Maybe somebody who knows this can prove or disprove this. I've had the latest flash done way back middle of last summer. For me, there are 2 easy fixes. First is to fill up the tank just before parking. Second is to run a fan on the bike for about an hour after parking. Hope this helps, Ray | ||
| Supertt_fl |
I'm having this same issue, anyone?? | ||
| Banana_man |
Wonder when buell will get round to fixing this problem. I have never had fuel leaking out of any of my bike before | ||
| Ccryder |
What problem? Some gas out of a vent hose? My 08' 1125, my 04' ST1300. my 04' 12r, my 00' X3 and, my 99' S3T..... all have had gas at one time or another has gas coming out of their breather lines at various times. All of my rides I have had to watch how full I fill the tank and how they are parked. My point is the 1125 is not that different in this regard from many other bikes. Time2Run Neil S. | ||
| Voodoo |
Big engine sitting between 2 fuel tanks. gonna get hot and expand. Its gotta go somewhere. I get the same thing when it gets hot. If you have been riding and the bike is hot dont fill it up all the way and let it sit. Mine flows fuel like a garden hose. | ||
| Banana_man |
I agree that on Occasions fuel may come out of other manufactures bikes but in my experience this is a rare occurrence and when it does happens it is because of something obvious like over filling the tank with the bike upright then placing the bike on the sidestand. however it seams to be a regular occurrence with my buell and this surely is not acceptable. if it was a lorry spilling Diesel we would be in uproar! And I have never had petrol fumes fill up the garage with any of my other bikes, but my buell does it every time i park it up in there! | ||
| Steeltech |
Well...I haven't had an actual problem with it. I know not to overfill my bike though. I also know not to fill it up real high and then park it while hot. As long as you watch how you fill it and realize that it will expand some you should be good. When I first bought the bike I noticed it do this if I just filled the bike and then parked it. Allowing the cold gas that is sitting under the ground being chilled into a gas tank built around an engine. Well...give it a few minutes and yeah...you will see a puddle. After I saw it for the first time, I had no problems after that. | ||
| Parrick |
Well, since I started this I guess I should admit that the problem appears to have been my fault. I got the bike home and topped off the tank and apparently overfilled it. After taking things apart it looks like the tank is designed not to be filled beyond the metal baffle that is visible through the filler hole. I drained out some gas and put a catch bottle on the end of the vent tube. The catch bottle has been dry since I lowered the fuel level. | ||
| Ccryder |
Patrick: You can stand tall. Don't worry you are not the first nor will you be the last to draw a conclusion and later to be proven incorrect. That's one of the ways we learn. Don't stop asking questions. Just try and listen to the answers, even if they are not what you expected. Time2Work Neil S. | ||
| Jjk |
Parrick - our bikes do overflow a ton more gas than any other bike I've ever owned, even if you didn't 'overfill' it. Basically no matter how much fuel is in my tank, when I park it after a ride it drips and drips and drips for roughly an hour. It's a strange deal. I'm going to spend the money for the California catch can so I can avoid the mess in the future. | ||
| Zac4mac |
You will find this problem is worst in Winter. Part of that is b/c the frame is colder and makes a better condenser. The other is due to the Winter fuel formulations EPA and CARB are now forcing on us. Alcohol has a high thermal expansion - that's why it's in thermometers. Z | ||
| Parrick |
Finally got warm enough for a ride the other day. Took the bike out for a while and slapped the catch bottle on the fuel tank breather tube as soon as I got home. There was a little over 20ml in the catch bottle by the time it stopped dripping. (This might explain the discrepancy some have noticed between the cluster-displayed MPG vs. calculated MPG) The tank was about half full and I could hear the fuel boiling. If I disconnect the vent tube at the tank there is no liquid spewing out so it appears that the fuel vapor is condensing back to liquid in the breather tube. I am rigging up a catch bottle to go under the seat midway along the breather tube. I'm setting it up similar to a coolant reservoir tank in the hopes that when the tank cools it will suck the fuel back up into the tank. Anyone try a setup like this? Thoughts? |
