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Swordsman
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 11:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I mean this quite literally : it stinks! Any time it's running, the exhaust smells horrible... kind of a sour, putrid fuel smell. It's been like this for a long time, long enough that I can't remember if it's "normal" or not. I always assumed it was because the bike was cold, but often I get the same smell if I sit and idle after a ride. Normally I would suspect it was flooding or something, but according to ECMSpy, my AFR is actually compensating for a slight lean condition (105, which I attribute to the seriously warm weather we're having).

What else, aside from running rich, could cause a bike to reek? Maybe my crank case hose reroute, which simply vents to a filter?

~SM
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Blacklightning
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 11:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

SM, crankcase fumes stink. If you had a catch can, you would know from draining that that is the smell. Put your nose up to your filter. I bet that's it.

BL
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Andymnelson
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 12:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

catalytic converters smell like that when they go bad :-p
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Gunut75
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 02:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

My bike smelled (and still smells) after I rerouted the breathers. mmmmmmmmm hhmmmmm!
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Swordsman
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 02:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ah, well, maybe that's it then.

My wife HATES it when I fire the bike up in the garage and let it warm up before I leave.

~SM
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Slaughter
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 02:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah... it's a kinda normal smell.

After we've been closed in the dyno room for a couple hours, we all stink so bad that we are not allowed anywhere near "normal" people without taking a shower first.
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Gunut75
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 05:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Change yer diaper!!!!
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Slaughter
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 05:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Maybe THAT's the reason that Mom would always give me a shower with the garden hose before letting me back in the house. Something about fertilizing the lawn?
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Gunut75
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 05:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Have you ever seen greener grass?!
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Sloppy
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 06:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Try a different brand of gas (I prefer the expensive name brands). It is normal to have that aromatic sulpher stink - it's typically worse on a cold engine / exhaust...

Try sniffing it after you come back from a hard ride and see if it's better.
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Buelltroll
Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 09:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

its not normal
go smell a bottle of gear oil
theres ur stink
change ur oil
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Hawkperformance
Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Go to http://home.windstream.net/hawk63/.
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Firebolt32
Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Have you ever seen greener grass?!

Only what I smoke.
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