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Hey everyone, little problem here,
I did a valve adjustment about a month ago and more recently adjusted my mixture, and it runs great. Only bug I haven't worked out is sometimes the engine is sluggish when leaving a stoplight, but this seems completely random. Exhaust has more of a "blat" to it when it does this, but it ends up clearing it's throat. Before all this it always looked wet or moist from what appeared to be fuel under carb#1, such as the bowl. Looked almost like it's leaked from the carb/engine rubber necks, but I know I've got those suckers tight. You know those ball things that you can push in that are on ratchets that hold the sockets on? Well there's something that looks like that under that neck on the carbs. While adjusting my mixtures I cleaned out the carbs of course, and that opening under the #1 carb was real gummy from oil or whatever, maybe not letting it seal. I cleaned them all up and hoped it was just stuck open.
Well I rode it the 15 highway miles to work this morning and parked it. I was just out there (admiring it of course), and noticed it looked all oily on that #1 carb again but even more so. Not only that, the #4 carb was showing the same signs. I haven't been able to figure out if it's fuel or oil, but this time each carb had a drop hanging off the bottom of the bowls so I was able to look at that. It was real thick and seems to be oil.
During my valve adjustment, my airbox just had that normal oily film in there, but no evidence of large amounts of oil. Bike doesn't smoke at all, and the oil level hasn't dropped as far as I can tell. During the valve adjustment, I put the valves right in the middle of the recommended ranges. I've put on about 700 miles since the adjustment, and this appears to have shown up more recently. Any ideas? Really it's not messy or a major problem, I'm just more worried about the cause of it.
I did a valve adjustment about a month ago and more recently adjusted my mixture, and it runs great. Only bug I haven't worked out is sometimes the engine is sluggish when leaving a stoplight, but this seems completely random. Exhaust has more of a "blat" to it when it does this, but it ends up clearing it's throat. Before all this it always looked wet or moist from what appeared to be fuel under carb#1, such as the bowl. Looked almost like it's leaked from the carb/engine rubber necks, but I know I've got those suckers tight. You know those ball things that you can push in that are on ratchets that hold the sockets on? Well there's something that looks like that under that neck on the carbs. While adjusting my mixtures I cleaned out the carbs of course, and that opening under the #1 carb was real gummy from oil or whatever, maybe not letting it seal. I cleaned them all up and hoped it was just stuck open.
Well I rode it the 15 highway miles to work this morning and parked it. I was just out there (admiring it of course), and noticed it looked all oily on that #1 carb again but even more so. Not only that, the #4 carb was showing the same signs. I haven't been able to figure out if it's fuel or oil, but this time each carb had a drop hanging off the bottom of the bowls so I was able to look at that. It was real thick and seems to be oil.
During my valve adjustment, my airbox just had that normal oily film in there, but no evidence of large amounts of oil. Bike doesn't smoke at all, and the oil level hasn't dropped as far as I can tell. During the valve adjustment, I put the valves right in the middle of the recommended ranges. I've put on about 700 miles since the adjustment, and this appears to have shown up more recently. Any ideas? Really it's not messy or a major problem, I'm just more worried about the cause of it.
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