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[klryyz]

Hi all, I'm posting this for my list-deprived buddy with a 450 Nighthawk. His bike started leaking gas after we started it up in the spring. The gas is leaking through a rubber tube that comes off the bottom of the float bowl on the right carb. The reserve/on/off valve seems O.K. Ant ideas? Thanks in advance, John in T.O. A11

[ktmh53@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/10/02 8:26:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, johnsilv@... writes:

> Hi all, > > I'm posting this for my list-deprived buddy with a 450 Nighthawk. > His bike started leaking gas after we started it up in the spring. > The gas is leaking through a rubber tube that comes off the bottom of > the float bowl on the right carb. The reserve/on/off valve seems O.K. > > Ant ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > John in T.O. A11

Check the floats and or the jet that works with is. I the idea is just like a toilet tank. Kurt Thomas A-10 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[aches70546]

(You won't see it on the filter, or before the filter, because the breather hooks into the airbox after the air filter. Worth a look.) Very true. The guys have covered mostly what i know about the xt series. Wheelstands would dump oil into the air box also. I modified a few by running the breather tube to the end of the rear fender. These engine saw a lot of duty on short tracks down here in louisiana. I had one (XT 500) that I had put Norris TT2 cams, 11.5:1 Piston 521CC kit, SR intake valve, 36 mikuni round slide and Torque Master exhaust on. Laced in a 19" front wheel and it was a good cutup bike that ran 13.95s and 6s in '79 and '80. Little did I know I had built a forerunner to the KTM Duke ha ha ha........ Andy Chesley 59 and ticking Jennings, La. KLR650 R1150GS