Jim, I will be taking the bike in Saturday and have it checked out.

Thank you to all Forum members who responded.

A better idea would be to send the oil in for analysis to Blackstone Labs- that will put an end to all guess work. Most dealers don't know the Hippocratic oath of "first do no harm", and they will certainly have no clue.

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that engine hasn't been fully broken in yet with that mileage, it's completely normal to smell a small odor of fuel, it should not be a strong odor tho. There is normal blowby during the first 10k miles, especially if you never hammer the throttle...  ride on... and don't sweat it...  you have a warrantee... buying an extended one is also a good idea...

I've been thinking with my dip stick all my life. Less as I get older, but still...

I've been thinking with my dip stick all my life. Less as I get older, but still...

An oil analysis is an excellent point, but if there is an actual problem. The dealer would be a logical choice to diagnose and effect repairs of the problem.
The member who posed that by commuting 16 miles one way. May not burn off all the blow by in the engine. In turn I, will go for about an hour ride today.
After which I, will remove the oil fill cap.  If any gas odor is present. Then off to the dealer. If not, then his hypothesis will prove valid and I ride on for home.

Again, thanks to all who have replied.

Your bike has a dipstick? 

Don't ask..,

These bikes run RICH
All you need it Steve's FLASH!

Fuel odor is still present in the oil after 60 miles.  Dealer to examine and repair the Connie if a problem is found.
Jim, the mechanic stated that fuel system problems are rare, but do occur. The fuel rail is the most likely 
source of the problem.  More details as they become available.

Thank you.

I had a similar problem with my Honda VFR. The gas leaking into the crankcase was actually raising the oil level to the point the sight glass was covered. I was advised on the VFR forum to check the fuel rail and a vacuum  valve that could fail and allow fuel to leak into the crankcase but these were ok. I sent my injectors off to be tested and cleaned and one was reported to be dribbling. After cleaning the problem was cured.

I just removed the filler cap from my '08 and smelled it. It had a slight fuel smell to it. So I check both cars and my truck, all of them have a slight fuel smell. Pretty normal, I think.

I have always thought the same thing . I change a lot of oil in cars,bikes and mowers and all have a light fuel smell.

I just removed the filler cap from my '08 and smelled it. It had a slight fuel smell to it. So I check both cars and my truck, all of them have a slight fuel smell. Pretty normal, I think.

Fuel odor is still present in the oil after 60 miles.  Dealer to examine and repair the Connie if a problem is found.
Jim, the mechanic stated that fuel system problems are rare, but do occur. The fuel rail is the most likely 
source of the problem.  More details as they become available.

Thank you.

         

Fuel odor is still present in the oil after 60 miles.  Dealer to examine and repair the Connie if a problem is found.
Jim, the mechanic stated that fuel system problems are rare, but do occur. The fuel rail is the most likely 
source of the problem.  More details as they become available.

UPDATE #2

Well as many of the Forum members have speculated. The Connie needed to be checked and it was.
A leak down test was performed on the fuel rail and that was negative. Although the stick coil
on the #3 cylinder was not firing to the "correct voltage" In turn all the plugs and the #3 stick
coil was replaced. After a few other diagnostics were run using the "Laptop" as Jim the mechanic
noted. The Connie has a noted improvement in performance. After returning home. I checked
for gas odor and none was noted.  Problem solved.   


Again, thank you to all the Forum members who replied.

Thanks for the update.

Hopefully the unburnt fuel didn't wash the cylinder and create  low compression...

I'd trade it in.

Glad to hear the problem is resolved

I'm surprised to hear that one of the symptoms of a bad stick coil is gasoline odor in the engine oil. It just never occurred to me that more unburnt gas would blow by into the oil, but I guess it would. Good info.

That is good info..

I'm surprised to hear that one of the symptoms of a bad stick coil is gasoline odor in the engine oil. It just never occurred to me that more unburnt gas would blow by into the oil, but I guess it would. Good info.

I'm curious about the analysys....
if the stick was reading low? or no volts(open or short), you should see this when invoking onboard diagnostics, an error code between 51 and 54, depending on cylinder.
it should have thrown a code 53...
when this occurs, the ecu controls fuel, shutting off the injector for the bad coil's cylinder, preventing any chance of  fuel.delivery to a dead cylinder... says so in FSM.... just saying,  go check error codes in manual... read what it says...

just curious if "low", how low can be still sensed by the pulses, before it say no volts, open circuit or short...?
it must have had some volts, and was firing somewhat, but the low volts thing was still enough to trick ECU... so much for the built in safeguards.
it only mentions shutting off fuel if 32 consecutive pulses are not sensed at some time the engine is running...

now, after reading tests that the KDS performs, without having one here, I can only find that the coil tests are pretty vague, and it simply sends voltage to the coils to initiate a continuous spark on the plugs (removed and grounded) for 20 seconds, and the results are visual verification of the plugs sparking.. no mention of voltage data or storage of same...

maybe someone that has a KDS can verify the options available, but the instruction book doesn't show anything more than that.

but glad its fixed....