I have a 1987 1000F that I've enjoyed for about 4 years. I didn't get a chance to ride much last year because of work obligations and she has sat in the garage for about 8 months. I decided to at least wake the old girl up this weekend.

Pulled her out yesterday and with a little prompting, she fired up, ran a little ragged, and then settled into a reasonable idle. I thought all was well- then noticed fuel dripping steadily from the belly pan! Looking through the side panels and finally removing them, I find fuel dripping from the #4 carb. Thinking it's a stuck float, I tried tapping and such, to no avail, so decided to pull the carb rack and take a look. Thanks to the advice of this group - and yes you REALLY do have to pull hard! - I got them off - but this raises a question.

Between the #1 & #2, and then between the #3 and #4 carbs there is a black plastic, hollow T that looks like it ought to be connected to something. They weren't connected on the bike and I cant find anything that looks as though it should have been connected. Is there supposed to be something plumbed to these?

Bike ran well last year - starts and idles well, pulls strong, and gets good mileage - mid 40's+ Am I missing something?

 

Don't worry, there's nothing missing, they're breather tubes and overflow if memory serves correctly.

 

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Your memory serves you correctly Hawk!

Cheers, SB

 

Thanks! That makes me feel better as I couldn't see anything in the way of a connection.

Brings up a second question. Pulling the float bowl cover of the #4 carb, nothing seems amiss. Float moves freely and seems to be proper. Any other ideas on what might cause a carb to leak fuel, basically at the float bowl joint - at least that's what it looks like, and only the #4 carb.

 

What condition is the rubber gasket in?

 

Chances are all the Fuel T's O-Rings have shrunk on them potentially the fuel bowls too.

I'd replace all the Fuel T orings ( no worries about the upper breather orings ) first.
If they still leak then the more expensive fuel bowl gaskets/orings will need changing too.

Just my personal experience with this from an 87 that was left sitting as long before
I got it.

 

The float bowl gasket/o-ring looks good - no obvious problem.

Sprock - the o-rings do sound like a possible culprit. Any suggestions for a source? Bike Bandit's schematic shows several gasket sets that appear to contain o-rings for various tee's - these what you are suggesting - #'s 1 & 10 in this schematic

1987 Honda Hurricane 1000 CBR1000F Parts, 1987 Honda Hurricane 1000 CBR1000F OEM Parts - BikeBandit.com

 

I replaced the between the carb orings on my f2 last summer due to a similar leak. I just took an oring to Napa, and replaced them all for like 2 bucks. Those prongs are actually a common size. May be worth a drive. Just about any auto parts store should be able to match em up.

 

gtcole makes a good point.

Here's what I did recently

One more resource

 

Sprock, thats the same looking kit they matched mine up with. I need to get one of those thanks for the link