justin_o_guy2 wrote on 08/07/16 at 19:18:10:


Why not?

Ah, great. Thanks. I'll check in at the local bike shop and see what they have. I was a little concerned when the product I was shown (see link) appeared primarily for general purpose. Says it's RTV in the description.

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Had a difficult time with the idea that the temperature and pressure conditions of the clutch cover were the same as trying to stop rain getting in to a car. Hence my question.

Will post with what I find/do.

Thanks!

Uh oh.

So, my clutch cover gasket came in the mail.



Went to local bike place and asked what they used for sealant and he handed me this stuff.



Finally had a chance to pull the pipe and clutch cover off this afternoon. However, when I pulled the oil plug black watery fluid GUSHED out! Measured  about 3.4 litres of it. Considering only ~2.0 litres of oil went IN perhaps I should start a thread called Gas in Oil? That first time I noticed the leak the bike quit on it's own (like, 5 seconds before I snapped the video). Turns out the tank was bone dry. I thought it was a coincidence, but it's clear something very very bad has happened.

Anybody see something like this? How could the bike even RUN like this?! I'm guessing once the oil compartment filled up full of gas/oil it wouldn't have been hard to build up enough pressure to blow out around the grommet for the neutral switch wire. I'm feeling glad the bike didn't burst into flames or something!

What would cause something so awful? Could I have effed' something up doing the verslavvy mod? The bike seemed to be running great, even while spraying oil (and evidently gas!) out the cover.

Fury,

The vacuum port must be sealed, I used a piece of the factory hose and stuffed it with Silicone and threaded a screw into it. The auto parts stores sell caps for sealing the vacuum port, but they don't hold up for any great length of time.

The float in your carburetor is stuck open. Rap the side of the carburetor float bowl with the handle end of a fairly heavy screwdriver. You might want to have someone hold the other side of the carburetor with their hand while you rap rather smartly. Hopefully that will break the float loose.

If you don't have a Raptor petcock you need a genuine Yamaha Raptor petcock Part #5LP-24500-01.

The factory petcock is notorious for leaking and all of the knowledgeable Savage owners change the petcock to a Yamaha Raptor Part #5LP-24500-01. Make sure you get a genuine Yamaha petcock not a knockoff from eBay.

After the petcock is corrected you may have to go back into the carburetor and clean or replace the seat on the float bowl valve.

Kenny G

A carburetor that floods it once will do it again.
Carb maintenance time
Raptor petcock time

Okee. So, I applied the gasket sealant/dressing to the gasket proximal to the oil galley. I had watched a general gasket sealant youtube video and did similarly which, afterwards I understand what Lancer was saying about using a brush (I had applied it to the whole width of the gasket, not just the interfaces of the covers). Also did the little grommet.





I went ahead and popped out the carburetor. I had taken a peak at it in the spring but really didn't know what to look for. A couple more youtube vids and I see that gunk on the float valve bits can cause it to stick, so I cleaned up the seat and needle/stem thingy which had a noticeable layer of said gunk.  




Put some new oil back in and took her for a quick spin. No evidence of leakage (but for all the smoke coming from the outside of my exhaust pipe, now that it's fiberglass wrap is soaked with oil and gas).

As you can see below, my savage has a non-stock tank and a pretty generic 3/8" NPT petcock. I see them on ebay for 50 bucks or so ('drag specialties'). Anyway, to add a level of safety to the float valve issue, is it the general consensus that you close your petcock when not riding? Like, every time? I'm probably going to be doing this every time I shut down the bike now, but I was curious if this is typical.

Thanks for the feed back everyone. I have no idea why I can't get my images to show up rotated.