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Van,
You should check vacuum & petrol hoses along w/ the rubber carb caps for cracking also. Good luck, please keep us posted on your progress.
LDW
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From: "gt500vert" <gt500vert@...>
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:28:16
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Subject: [TriumphTrophy] Re: Bad gas mileage 20 mpg
Thanks for the replies. I forgot to say that the bike is a 1200. I did notice that number four carb has a little gas on the outside of the bowl. It may have a sticky float. I am in the Kansas City area and it is too hot right now to mess with it. Poppa Jack I'll try that vacuum hose trick first chance I get. It looks like I will have to take the tank off to get to the problem.
Van
--- In TriumphTrophy@..., Jack Byers <jackbyers@...> wrote:
>
> Hey Van,
> You must have a leak somewhere? The 1200 cc Trophies can be ridden
> down to maybe 25 MPG, if you are twisting the wick a bunch, but the
> smell of raw gasoline, and the drop in mileage together has to be a
> leak somewhere, or perhaps a stuck float that is letting the carb
> overflow and spill out the float bowl vent. With the Vacuum operated
> petcock on these bikes it would only happen when the engine is
> running. You can pull off the vacuum hose ( #4 carb top) and suck on
> the line to open the flow to the carb, and see if anything dribbles
> out of the carbs, or anywhere else.
> Kindest regards,
> Poppa Jack
> On Jul 22, 2012, at 8:11 AM, gt500vert wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone. I recently bought a '96 Trophy The first tank of
> > gas was not bad ..I think that I got around 150 miles with 5
> > gallons. But ever since then she's loosing ground quickly I am only
> > getting around 20 miles to a gallon it seems. I smell gas and I see
> > gas on the right carb. Are there any known issues with these
> > things? I love the bike otherwise but that kind of mileage can't be
> > right.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Van
> >
> >
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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You should check vacuum & petrol hoses along w/ the rubber carb caps for cracking also. Good luck, please keep us posted on your progress.
LDW
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-----Original Message-----
From: "gt500vert" <gt500vert@...>
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:28:16
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Subject: [TriumphTrophy] Re: Bad gas mileage 20 mpg
Thanks for the replies. I forgot to say that the bike is a 1200. I did notice that number four carb has a little gas on the outside of the bowl. It may have a sticky float. I am in the Kansas City area and it is too hot right now to mess with it. Poppa Jack I'll try that vacuum hose trick first chance I get. It looks like I will have to take the tank off to get to the problem.
Van
--- In TriumphTrophy@..., Jack Byers <jackbyers@...> wrote:
>
> Hey Van,
> You must have a leak somewhere? The 1200 cc Trophies can be ridden
> down to maybe 25 MPG, if you are twisting the wick a bunch, but the
> smell of raw gasoline, and the drop in mileage together has to be a
> leak somewhere, or perhaps a stuck float that is letting the carb
> overflow and spill out the float bowl vent. With the Vacuum operated
> petcock on these bikes it would only happen when the engine is
> running. You can pull off the vacuum hose ( #4 carb top) and suck on
> the line to open the flow to the carb, and see if anything dribbles
> out of the carbs, or anywhere else.
> Kindest regards,
> Poppa Jack
> On Jul 22, 2012, at 8:11 AM, gt500vert wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone. I recently bought a '96 Trophy The first tank of
> > gas was not bad ..I think that I got around 150 miles with 5
> > gallons. But ever since then she's loosing ground quickly I am only
> > getting around 20 miles to a gallon it seems. I smell gas and I see
> > gas on the right carb. Are there any known issues with these
> > things? I love the bike otherwise but that kind of mileage can't be
> > right.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Van
> >
> >
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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