Valkyrie fuel / gas smell

[Ansimp]

Val has been stinking up the garage and I have been investigating all the potential causes. Vaccum fuel tap cutoff gets the most common mention but I always try and select off whenever my bikes are stopped for more than 1 hour. Bike runs out if fuel while riding if I select off on the fuel tap so I am pretty happy with the fuel tap atm. I have seen some mentioning that there was a recall on the fuel caps as they were allowing fuel vapours to escape. I haven't been able to find any replacement gas cap seals so it would be a new cap or some form of modification to the existing one. Yesterday I modified a front wheel ride on mount/stand that will support Val in an upright position which will make pulling the fuel tank a lot easier.

Original fit

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• Jun 15, 2016

Original ride over part of the wheel clamp/stand

Cut the welds on tire bracket

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• Jun 15, 2016

Welds cut for some reshaping

Modified fittment

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• Jun 15, 2016

Opened up so that the front tire fits better into the V

Sitting in the modified stand

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• Jun 15, 2016

Sitting upright in the front wheel stand

Removed the gas cap and surround

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• Jun 15, 2016

Removed gas cap and surround

Pulled the gas cap seal for a full inspection

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• Jun 15, 2016

Gas cap seal

Sealing surface

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• Jun 15, 2016

Sealing surface

Tank vent tube showing 2 holes

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• Jun 15, 2016

Two holes in the gas tank vent tube
Removed the gas cap and surround so that I could pull the cap seal and check for any problems. The seal was slightly twisted from its correct location but it seems like it is in pretty good condition. I also found the two holes in the tank vent hose so I cut the hose back and replaced everything. Topped the tank up with fuel and moved the front wheel stand into the garage and parked Val onto it. This is the next best thing to a centre stand and will make me a lot happier to have the bike parked level at home. Hopefully this is the end of my smelly Valkyrie . :beg:

 

[slabghost]

Maybe that's why it was for sale?

 

[Omega Man]

Me thinks Tony is having a blast with his new toy. :good: :good: :good:

~O~

p.s. Time for sum new tyres bud.

 

[slabghost]

Omega Man » Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:32 am[/url]":1kfeht70]
Me thinks Tony is having a blast with his new toy. :good: :good: :good:

~O~

p.s. Time for sum new tyres bud.

Yep! to both! Them tars are only slightly better than mine were when I got my Valk. Jewel was sporting new shoes asap. :yes:

 

[Ansimp]

The gas smell was heaps better this morning but I could still smell it. I checked around the cap and felt like the smell was coming from it especially when I slid the lock door on the cap across. I stopped past a mates workshop and mentioned my issue and he suggested I use an old oil filter seal that he had. The seal ID was a little bit smaller and needed a notch cut out of it for the front pawl on the gas cap.

New oil filter seal to put under fuel cap seal

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• Jun 15, 2016

Oil filter seal installed with cutout for front latch part

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• Jun 15, 2016

Installed on the cap awaiting the original seal to be reinstalled over the top of it.

 

[Ansimp]

The main reason for chasing down this smell issue was so that I could park Val in the garage.

Val in the garage on the modified front wheel stand

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• Jun 15, 2016

Lots of congestion but at least Val can now be vertical

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• Jun 15, 2016

The front stand works a treat even though it is not bolted down. I think I will clear out some room in the garden shed ( the 8m x 2m off the carport with a remote roller door) and eventually mount the stand out there. The only problem with the garden shed is that there is one of these living in there that is about twice as big as this one. ( back half of a python )

Python travelling across the front of the DD

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• Jun 15, 2016

Zoomed in and the other half is in the bushes

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• Jun 15, 2016

 

[Omega Man]

LOL, you Aussie's and your creepy critters. :hihihi:

~O~

 

[slabghost]

Pretty sure he lives by himself. Any other would be guests are on it's menu.