His was a very common problem with old Yamahas. It was usually a combination of your vacuum petcoock leaking a little, and your floats being slightly out of adjustment.
SOURCE: Air filter smell like gas
It's perfectly normal for an engine with a carb to have an air filter that smells like gasoline. The reason being is because of a concept called "fuel stand off" - in a nutshell, the air that is going through your carbs towards the cylinders gets bounced back towards the air filter when the intake valves close. Since carbs aren't that smart, the air coming back towards the filter picks up even more fuel from the float bowl, and then heads in to your air filter box to say hello.
SOURCE: running rough, wont idle, bad gas smell
Possible injector failure. locate by disconnecting injectors one at a time. The one that makes no change is the questionable. Status of spark plugs need chkg also. pull the plugs an the one that looks washed is questionable good luck
SOURCE: 2003 honda shadow spirit vt750 carb problem
buddy dont worry about it what you have done is put to much oil inside the engine and as the piston goes down it cause abit off pressure which in the small space it has when you over filled it the pressure inside has just forced the oil out the breather into the air box just give it a little clean and drop oil aswell bud
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SOURCE: Hi,I just bought a 84 honda goldwing interstate.
The bike may be discharging the battery. you need to test stator output,voltage regulator,and the fuses. Does the battery need to be recharged to restart?
SOURCE: bike runs ok for a
Look into fuel flow issues, there is a strainer in the tank, and usually a filter. This description sounds like a restricted screen and or filter.
The oil may not be a real issue, as closed crankcase ventalation system moves some oil to that area, to be burned by intake into combustion chamber. Excessive oil will happen when your engine is near the end of it's life and crankcase blow by becomes extreme.
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