Gasoline smell

[K_Flyer]

Started parking my bike in the garage, rather than beside the house with a cover. Every time I open the garage door, I can smell gasoline. Nothing on the floor, just a very strong smell. No, I did not overfill the bike. Never had this problem with my BMW, even with both our bikes in the garage. Did not notice this before taking it in for the 600 mile service. Ideas?

 

[NTXFJR]

Take it back and tell them so, let them fix whatever it was they did? They don't always do perfect work, I've discovered this the hard way in the past.

 

[rPGoatBoy]

 

[ChrisCo]

Related to this maybe?

https://www.fjrforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21679

My S10 has the same problem described in that link. I've had it has only dripped fuel twice (both times this past April, on the first decently warm days we had, and with about 1/2 a tank). I've never had this happen with the Feej...

 

[K_Flyer]

Had Theresa come out and check this morning. "It just smells like a new bike." Had to agree it did not smell like gas. Maybe I'm paranoid having had three BMW's with leaking QD's. There were no spots on the garage floor that might have been from gas leaks.

 

[Uncle Hud]

Aunt Kelly reports that smell every now and then in her garage. I've noticed it once, and only in her garage. In mine, it smells fine. (<--- Poetry.)

 

[Bill Lumberg]

It smells like.... victory...

 

[Fred W]

How recently did you fill it and how warm is the garage? The tank will vent (eventually) if cold gasoline from underground storage warms up.

There is this property in physics (defined by the Ideal Gas Law, aka Boyle's Law) that says that when you warm up a gas it will expand and increase in pressure, and likewise when it cools down it contracts and decreases in pressure. There are a large number of people in the US that are ignorant as to how that can happen. They all skipped school that day in the 11th grade.

I think that you should be suspended from riding your bike for four weekends this fall for having released those toxic fuel vapors into the atmosphere of that garage.

 

[ionbeam]

...when you warm up a gas it will expand and increase in pressure...a large number of people in the US that are ignorant as to how that can happen. They all skipped school that day in the 11th grade.
I think that you should be suspended from riding...for having released those toxic fuel vapors into the atmosphere of that garage.

Unless you live in CA, they (you) have a charcoal filter in a closed recirculation system to prevent just that very thing. If you smell gas from a CA model FJR something is wrong. However, if you dribbled gas on your FJR while filling up all bets are off about the gas smell.

 

[escapefjrtist]

Aunt Kelly reports that smell every now and then in her garage. I've noticed it once, and only in her garage. In mine, it smells fine. (<--- Poetry.)

I've noticed a gas smell on my '15A as well. No rhyme or reason, tank full or empty, hot or cold...just the occasional whif. Plan on doing some under tank and cap snooping when I return from Red Lodge.

--G

 

[Constant Mesh]

If they synced the throttle bodies they could have left off one of the rubber caps.

Maybe when they raised the tank they disconnected a hose and forgot to reconnect it.

As was mentioned a California model should not emit unprocessed fuel vapors.

 

[K_Flyer]

If I smell it again, I'll pursue it more. Haven't been in the garage for a couple of days so will check it this morning.