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SOHC.co.uk Forums => Other Bikes => Topic started by: JonnyB on February 17, 2009, 04:27:19 PM
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Finally got some time to look over the GS450 I bought last month. I decided to change the oil before trying to start it. Removed the sump plug to drain it and drained what can only be describes as 4 liters of Petrol/Oil mix.
How did that get in there? ??? ???
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It's possible for fuel to drain into the sump.
It requires a stuck float (or floats) and blocked carb overflows.
The fuel either ends up in the airbox or in the engine. In the engine it soon drains down past the rings into the sump.
I've never seen it but there are some on sohc.net who have...
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This is a first for me too, anyway got the filter changed, new oil, started the engine, but won't idle unless tick over is really high, and when you do get it set and blip the thottle engine revs high again.
Air leak between carbs and engine manifold?
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Your lucky to have found it that way, my first cb550 was a project basket case (my first), took a long time, lots of trying things before it ran, stopped and started well enough to try an mot, oil pressure light 'behaved' itself but engine started going rough, I turned for home but a the lhs conrod locked itself solid on the crank, oil smelt of petrol so I'd geuss I'd left the tap on with the bike on it's stand and washed the oil off the bearing, the petrol comtaminated stuff wouldn't have then been up to the job at a geuss, it cirtainly went all frothy.