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ChopperCharles · 11-20-2020, 05:48 PM

Leak down test is worthless on a bike with aN automatic compression release. My filter still hadn’t arrived this morning, and I had the day off... but my fuel fittings from amazon did. So I made a bypass line and buttoned it all back up and went out for a two hour ride. I included all different terrain, including highway. I reached 87mph on the speedo (79mph actual) and that tells me the engine is perfectly fine!

Russel, you couldn’t have known the filter would start coming apart internally. It’s a bit of a design flaw, the filter is at the lowest point in the fuel system, and when a bike sits for a long time that’s where any water ends up.

I appear to be good to go. And low and behold my filter arrived. So now I can take the tank back apart and replace my bypass line.

Charles.

11-20-2020, 05:48 PM	#35
ChopperCharles Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: RDU, NC Posts: 677	Leak down test is worthless on a bike with aN automatic compression release. My filter still hadn’t arrived this morning, and I had the day off... but my fuel fittings from amazon did. So I made a bypass line and buttoned it all back up and went out for a two hour ride. I included all different terrain, including highway. I reached 87mph on the speedo (79mph actual) and that tells me the engine is perfectly fine! Russel, you couldn’t have known the filter would start coming apart internally. It’s a bit of a design flaw, the filter is at the lowest point in the fuel system, and when a bike sits for a long time that’s where any water ends up. I appear to be good to go. And low and behold my filter arrived. So now I can take the tank back apart and replace my bypass line. Charles.
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