The last few times I rode my V it seemed to miss a bit and would get hotter than normal 3 bars in cool weather. I decided to start it and let it run to see if it would do it sitting still. It ran nice for about 5 min then I got 3 bars I checked to see if the fan had started but it had not. I could see smoke coming from around the gas cap! I thought I was seeing things so I let it run a little longer. It started smokeing more and smelled like wiring burning. I shut it of and the smoke stopped. I took the tank off expecting to find burned wires some place under the tank that had some how pushed smoke up and around the gas cap. I could find nothing that looked burned at all! If it was wiring under the tank how could the smoke come out the gas cap area? Has anyone had this problem? Could it be the gas tank vent hose touching a hot engine part?
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