I checked for hydrolock. At least I think so.
The situation was as follows:
- Buy bike
- drive to my girlfriend
- pick up girlfriend, refuel because I didn;t know how much was in the tank
- get home, see the bike leaking gas.
- remove tank quickly and fear for hydrolock
- check the petcock, petcocks leaks.
- next morning, I checked the oil. Oil level was still exactly the same as it was the day before. I figured it would be higher if there was fuel going inside the cilinders,.
- start the bike, (with the tank removed), starts and runs fine.
- repair petcock
- no leaking fuel
- bike has been running fine ever since, it seems.
This was about 800km ago. I haven't owned it for very long yet, so I'm now realising it uses quite a bit of gas.
I'm not actually sure whére the fuel came from, since it was dark, and I was just frantically removing the tank to prevent any damage.
I checked the filter today, is this bad enough to install a new one?
I'll do the bent rod check. I haven't gotten around to buy a key to remove the sparkplugs yet, how wide are the hexes of the plugs?