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Author Message   Phelan Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014 - 11:21 am:        Is this normal? I've been seeing a bit of it lately after longer rides.   Harleyelf Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014 - 11:43 am:        Not normal. Your carburetor is overflowing, possibly due to a badly adjusted float or a dirty float needle. Fix this before your head pipe ignites your pants leg.   Phelan Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014 - 01:11 pm:        Yikes! Thanks for the heads up.   Robr Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014 - 09:33 pm:        Worn needle valve below the floats. Easy fix with a rebuild kit.   Jkgonzo Posted on Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:35 pm:        When one of my needles in my old Kawi wouldn't close properly, my crankcase filled up with gas.......after I put out the fire, there wasn't much left of the bike and I was lucky the engine didn't just explode. Nothing to mess with......   Lynrd Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:39 am:        Allow me to share my tale of woe: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/476 23/722687.html It is an extremely good idea to fix that right away...   Phelan Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:00 am:        Thanks for the comments guys. I didn't word it very well before, but it's not actually dripping, and it's intermittent. I never have a puddle or drips. It's just condensated at the bottom on my A/C. I talked with Dan and he said that it will generally do that when there is reversion, which I would certainly have right now since I'm running an open header. So for now I try to keep the rpms at or above 3K and it has ceased considerably.   Lynrd Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:19 am:        It would revert all the way back out the carb? I guess it could with enough cam overlap - but never would have thought of that. I've never seen it, but then, I run a muffler, and was not aware that they even ran below 3000 RPMs...   Buellistic Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:25 am:        Word to the un-wise as there are two times the FUEL VALVE should be TURNED OFF !!! 1) Anytime you PARK your bike ... 2) Anytime you TRAILER your bike ... If you are going to let your bike SET(ie: STORAGE) or over 7 days you should turn the gas valve off and with the bike on level ground run the engine until all the gas is run out of the carburetor bowl ... IMHO the ACCELERATOR PUMP should be disconnected and the related holes for it be plugged with JB WELD ... (Message edited by buellistic on April 23, 2014)   Phelan Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:27 am:        LOL. yeah Dan is familiar with my bike from one of the POs, and is pretty sure they put N4 cams in as well when they did the T-Storm top end. I'm ordering the baffles and stainless pipe now to redo the collector on and finish my custom muffler, so hopefully that will pretty much eliminate the issue.

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