Dripping fuel

[Justyntym]

Decided to change the oil and pulled off the right fairing. Then I notice one the two tubes is steady dripping. It smells like fuel. I never noticed this before, probably because my fairing is on.

It is parked in the sun, I burped the tank but didn't need it.

Seems like I remember a post a while back ago about someone having a similar problem and it ate into their fairing.

Is it fuel?
And more importantly...is it NORMAL???


One side note is I filled up about midweek and really rode nowhere but to work and back and went for a ride yesterday and it seemed like fuel gauge was way low and dropping faster than normal.



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[mikeo]

It sounds to me like the heat is causing the gas to expand and run out of the over flow. Unless it is excessive I would say it is normal. When I have come home from a ride the garage has smelled strong of gas and there was a small spot in the floor under my bike from the gas expanding from the heat of the bike.

 

[Justyntym]

I have to kinda think that's all it was.

I did just start to look for leaks and was sitting out in the miday sun.

I burped the tank and a cloud cover came over it stopped very shortly after that.

 

[300Busa]

It is normal to drip when hot, but enough to make your fuel gauage drop.

 

[Justyntym]

It is normal to drip when hot, but enough to make your fuel gauage drop.

That was just kind of a mental "hmmm" more than a definate fuel consumption problem. I did reset the tripometer this fill up for a little more accurate miles per tank than just my gut.
So I guess I'll see...