pjm123a Posted December 10, 2012 #1 Posted December 10, 2012 My '02 RSV seems to have developed a slight fuel leak. The leak is a slight drip coming from the end of an allen bolt. You can see the drop in the attached pic. What is the assembly that the bolt holds? Anybody have any idea of how to fix this? That assembly looks like a pain to remove! Any help is much appreciated.
ragtop69gs Posted December 10, 2012 #2 Posted December 10, 2012 It's the crankcase breather. That is not where the leak is, if you look above ,you'll see the carbs, that is where you'll find the leak. May be a bad gasket, high float level, bad fuel line. you will have to do a little investigating to find the source.
eusa1 Posted December 10, 2012 #3 Posted December 10, 2012 Your leak is from above that point, as ragtop has suggested, look around carbs and fuel lines
pjm123a Posted December 10, 2012 Author #4 Posted December 10, 2012 Hi ragtop and eusa - My bike sat for a long time and would barely start and idle and ran real bad. It could not be ridden. It also had fuel leaking out of the overflow lines. I had the carbs on an off at least a half dozen times. Finally got them cleaned out and the bike runs and idles great and no longer leaks through the overflows. I thought this leak was unrelated to all that. Turns out I was wrong and you guys were right. The carbs don't leak out of the overflow but I do see one leaking around one of the allen bolts that holds the bowl on. I am assuming a bad gasket. I replaced one when I did all the carb work. Looks like I'm going to have to replace another. Maybe I should just do 'em all while I've got the carbs off the bike again? Thanks for the help.
eusa1 Posted December 10, 2012 #5 Posted December 10, 2012 If you have replaced 1 and have a second one leaking, i would go ahead and replace the 3rd and fourth also.
pjm123a Posted December 16, 2012 Author #6 Posted December 16, 2012 Finally got around to replacing the other 3 float bowl carbs. After the gazillionth time having these carbs off the bike and back on, it finally runs like a top and not a single drip anywhere. Of course this was all caused from sitting. The bike is an '02 - 10 years old and it has 7,058 miles on the clock. Less than a thousand miles per year!!! Told the wife either we start riding it or I'm selling it! Thanks for the help guys.
ragtop69gs Posted December 16, 2012 #7 Posted December 16, 2012 If you can't find time to ride it, I'll give it a good workout when we get down there
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