fuel leaking ?

[Madbuffalo]

I sure as heck hope the raw gas that got in my crankcase did not screw up the crank seals.

Wouldn't worry too much about that Wayne. My seals were 45,000 miles/37 years old when this happened to me and I suspect the fuel bath more 'finished them off'.

[Wayne Meuir]

I got the vacuum petcock fixed and it is not leaking, but I added a manual cut-off just for insurance.

Bike also runs lots better with the air jet mod I did to the carbs. It still has just a very minor amount of surging when you chop the throttle at speed, but nothing like it was. I loc-tited the new air jets in place. I figured if one of them got loose, it could really make a mess of the engine.

Wayne

[TLRam1]

Good deal Wayne, still working on my 750 as it still will not start ever since I tried for the last Vintage Ride.

Have spark, cleaned the carbs, it tries but nothing. Timing will probably be next but I don't see how unless it's something internal.

[Wayne Meuir]

Terry, I got so tired of screwing with the points on my Buffalo, I converted it over to a Dyna S ignition and have never had to mess with it again. I set the timing with a dial indicator on all three of the Dyna S pickups.

Points SUCK and three sets of points SUCK three times as bad!

Wayne

[TLRam1]

I set mine with a dial indicator also, it ran fine so I don't know what I will run into. I looked at the points and they are set....we will see what i can find. The bike ran fine with never a issue until now, so I don't know how anything can be out of wack.

I don't know if I can drain the cylinders or not of oil.

[Barry S.]

I just went thru the same with mine, trans full of gas, has had problem with flooding once or twice before but just the cylinders. Wayne, where did you get a manual cut-off? Is it small enough to fit in there, not a lot of room.