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'07 Norge - gas smell in garage

cmgies

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Folks,

I need help as my lovely wife is about to boot the Norge out of the garage. It has this nagging gas smell. Not like there is gas on the floor or anything and the bike has 23K miles on it. Where could this smell be coming from and how difficult would it be to remedy?

Michael
 
Considering the record high temps around here it could be the gas vapor from the tank?
 
If the charcoal canister has been removed then the tank fumes will simply vent into the air. My Norge also smells of gas after I park it in the garage after a ride. I long ago removed the canister because of an erratic idle problem. The tank basically has a heater sitting underneath it and when things heat up they expand causing the air in the tank to vent. If you still have the charcoal canister mounted and hooked up, maybe it is soaked with fuel.
 
Lift the seat, and stick your nose down near to the back of the tank. Is the smell stronger here? If so then you will probably find, as I did, that you have fuel leaking past the little bolts holding the fuel pump assembly into the tank.#
This can be resolved by removing each bolt, one at a time, putting some red hermetite or similar on the threads, and screwing back in.
 
cmgies said:
Folks,

I need help as my lovely wife is about to boot the Norge out of the garage. It has this nagging gas smell. Not like there is gas on the floor or anything and the bike has 23K miles on it. Where could this smell be coming from and how difficult would it be to remedy?

Michael

Very interesting. I have had the same experience a couple of times with my Stelvio. It only seems to happen right after I have fueled up and parked my bike in my garage. Strangely, it does not always occur, and has not happened for about a month now.

Bruce
 
Thanks all for your speedy replies. As this is happening *all* of the time and not just when I get done with a ride, I am gravitating towards the bolts that hold the fuel pump assembly. I will check that out at the next garage "bonding" experience with the Norge.

@Brian UK: What is red hermetite?

Michael
 
Help! Now I have taken the tank off and put some thread compound on each of the bolts holding the pump housing in place and cleaned things up and put the tank back on.... Almost... :(

I can't get the rear (seat end) bolt back in. The front two line up ok, but that rear one is just enough off that I can't get it started. What is the trick to getting the tank far enough forward to get this bolt in without munging the threads?

Exasperated!

Michael
 
Our Breva 750 was tight, too. I used to spray some lanolin onto the rubber bungs..and apply force.

When I took my Breva 1100 in for its 10,000km service they found the rear bolt cross-threaded by the "mechanic" of another mob who'd done the 1500km service!
 
Ok. I got the tank back on and after putting blue loctite on the screws of the fuel pump access plate, I am still getting the gas smell.

Any other ideas? Is there some sort of gasket under that plate that could be the culprit?

Michael
 
Brian UK said:
There is a rubber gasket.

I had a fail on a 750 gasket. It looked fine, but allowed gas to seep enough for a smell of gas in the garage. No reason it couldn't fail on a Norge.
 
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