Fuel leak

[ballsdeep]

back when i bought my bike i noticed a few days after there was a leak. a couple of the tubes from the carbs were cut and not running to anything, and i noticed that if my fuel wasnt cut off it would just pour rite out. i taped up the tube and the leak was gone. my cousin has it rite now until i get back from Afghanistan and he said its leaking again. and clue on what the tubes are and where they should be going? im guessing its obviously fuel lines. but like we all know im new to banshee's

[dirtydownunder]

back when i bought my bike i noticed a few days after there was a leak. a couple of the tubes from the carbs were cut and not running to anything, and i noticed that if my fuel wasnt cut off it would just pour rite out. i taped up the tube and the leak was gone. my cousin has it rite now until i get back from Afghanistan and he said its leaking again. and clue on what the tubes are and where they should be going? im guessing its obviously fuel lines. but like we all know im new to banshee's

 

dirt man, in yo carbs , the fuel valve/seat is sticking open and when you tap it, the dirt is moved and it seals up again (then dirt finds it way back and causes it to leak)

 

clean the tank out with the pingle out and clean that too.

pull the carbs down, take the bowls off and the float, and clean everything with carby cleaner, then dry it off.

when you have the floats off, shake them near your ear to see if you can hear fuel inside (fuel inside means, throw them away).

then put your floats back on and adjust them to spec (i dont remember the stock float specs, ill find em when im home (20mm (.80") )

if you want to test if they now seal, get some fuel line onto the main fuel IN on the carb and blow into the line, when you push the float up into the carb, it should seal and you wont be able to blow air into the line and when you let the float move down away from the carb, it should let you blow all over its face....

if you can always blow into the line with the float up into the carb, you need to look into getting a new needle/seat.

[Jereme6655]

hey dirty.....im pretty sure he's talkin he taped his overflow tubes.

 

hey balls......those cut lines that you taped up.....where the tubes running from your carbs towards the back of your shee? if they were i have a suspicion what you taped up was the carb overf-flow tubes which allow the carb to drain out small amounts of fuel if they become flooded......they also will flow out fuel if your carb floats are mis-adjusted or sticking from dirt inside of them. Order a clymers manual to your cousins house and tell him to get his ass to it....

[dirtydownunder]

ah heh, not tap but tape.

yeh, dont do that.

[ballsdeep]

thanks! appreciate everything