I own a 1985 Honda Magna. It is a V-twin I do believe. Well on the V-twin part of my bike, which is black. If you are familiar with these bikes or others like it, you will know that the v-twin part has what appears to be 4 separate carberators on them. I am not sure if they are carbs, but they appear to be. On those carbs are a sort of nipple with a screw on the side of it. It appears as if those nipples are leaking gas. It is leaking from somewhere , and it appears as if it coming from them nipples. But only 2 of them are doing it. Can anyone tell me why, and how to fix it?
2007-10-04 13:24:51 · 6 answers · asked by mykd4sound 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
The magna has 4 carbs, 1 for each cylinder. The fuel lines to the carbs are metal and have o rings to seal the connection. You can get the o rings at any Honda dealer, but first get yourself a good manual with good pictures and instructions, because this is a little tricky. If your are not a pretty good wrench, spend the money to have someone do it who is, gasoline leaking on an engine is a bad combination.
2007-10-04 14:01:01 · answer #1 · answered by charles s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The screws on the bottom of motorcycle card near the nipples you talk about are for draining the carbs. If you are dripping gas from the screws it is possible that road and engine vibration has loosened them. Using a screwdriver tighten them up a bit. You don't tighten hard just snug. If there is trash in the bottom of the bowl it will make it's way into the drain ( what we're talking about here) and keep you from fully closing the drain screws. There are several ways to clean it out without taking the carbs off but if they are that dirty they need a rebuild any way. Try tightening the drain screws a little if that doesn't work have the carbs rebuilt.
2007-10-04 16:42:47 · answer #2 · answered by lawagoneer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are gaskest in side the screw. They are prepley bad. Go to a bike shop and they can tell you if there are gaskets in there. You can all so see if they need turn in father. But that may make it run driffent.
2016-05-21 02:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all you have a v4 not a vtwin and those nipples your talking about are a easy fix, just unscrew them and put on a new rubber o- ring
2007-10-05 18:34:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
like he says, it's rebuild time. especially on a honda. should cost about a hundred bucks
2007-10-04 15:30:55 · answer #5 · answered by tunnellram 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check the gas line
2007-10-05 13:22:24 · answer #6 · answered by Jeremy T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋