{"id":66419,"date":"2014-01-05T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=66419"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:39","slug":"gsx1400-fcr-overflow-and-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20140105\/everyday-events\/gsx1400-fcr-overflow-and-trouble","title":{"rendered":"GSX1400 FCR Overflow and Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8304.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66412\" alt=\"DSC_8304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_8304.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC_8304.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC_8304-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC_8304-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping the trouble is just the carburettor, but I&#8217;ll check the current condition step by step.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07470.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66413\" alt=\"DSC07470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07470.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07470.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07470-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07470-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t find any large foreign objects in the float chamber.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07478.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66414\" alt=\"DSC07478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07478.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07478.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07478-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07478-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen I removed the float valve seat, I found a fairly large piece of debris. #2<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66415\" alt=\"DSC07480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07480.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07480.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07480-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07480-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI found it in #4 as well. It was a somewhat hard chunk of rust. I suspect this didn&#8217;t come out completely and was floating around near the seat, occasionally getting wedged in the float valve and causing overflow.<br \/>\nHonestly, this is a rare case. There are definitely people riding with much worse tanks, but when it happens, it happens.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a constantly unpredictable &#8220;bad circuit.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07482.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66416\" alt=\"DSC07482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07482.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07482.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07482-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07482-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>There are also rust traces on one side of the fuel pipe cap.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07487.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66417\" alt=\"DSC07487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07487.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07487.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07487-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07487-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSince the filter would create resistance, I&#8217;ll make the passage double. I&#8217;ll also add a filter to the fuel pipe.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07490.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66418\" alt=\"DSC07490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC07490.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07490.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07490-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/DSC07490-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>I cleaned all the parts, checked the float level, and assembled it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a bit uncertain about the layout of the fuel pipe and such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping the trouble is just the carburettor, but I&#8217;ll check the current condition step by step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[58,57],"class_list":["post-66419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-fcr","tag-gsx1400"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}