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Alright, When I open the air cleaner, I to get a smell of gas, not a lot not overpowering, but you can smell it. I have a stock setup no mods done to the air filtering or the air box in any way. I am thinking yours is the same. I do not see any indication of the fuel running from the carb down the where it is sitting. Perhaps try some Seafoam to clean out the carb, a petcock cleaning and rebuild on a 18 year old bike just might be in order.  I also get a misting of oil in the air box, in along the bottom same place as your gas is. My milk bottle there at the end of the oil line it is always about half full by the end of the summer. 
  I also got rid of the stock air filter and went with a K&N filter, I remove it in the fall, wash it well with a soap water solution, let it dry and re spray with the K&N oil to make it work. How old is your filter? Perhaps time to change for a new one. An honestly my filter has never been blackened, not sure why yours would be, is the bike running normal otherwise.......
  So simple steps, check that your fuel is in fact shutting off, through the petcock, then see if the float bowl is not working properly, those 2 things done and working correctly then we have to delve deeper.

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Posted by OR Seedman

- February 02, 2017, 11:55:35 AM

looks to me like your vacuum petcock is not shutting off completely and allowing fuel to flow into the carb. Also, your float is not shutting off the flow in the carb bowl completely, allowing fuel to "flood" the air cleaner.... My petcock does the same thing...but I have already cleaned and rebuilt the carb, so the float shuts off the fuel flowing into the bowl..

I would disconnect the fuel line from the petcock and see if fuel still flows through it....it shouldn't if the bike is not running....if it does, the petcock is bad and needs to be cleaned/rebuilt or replaced...also, you need to clean the float bowl in the carb and make sure it shuts off the fuel when full...

thoughts, Ratman?

Posted by mittico68

- February 02, 2017, 05:49:00 AM

Hi Fellas,
today I was checkin' the air filter and as soon as I opened the box I felt a strong smell of gasoline, coming from it.
So, I've looked at it closer and I've found that the black plastic box is partially soaked and I assume that's gasoline...(look at the attached pics, please).
As for the air filter, I've seen that it is partially blacked...(again, look at pics). Is it because of the said gasoline?
If so, is that normal or what?
Awaitin' for you Drifter Gurus to reply asap... THANX!

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