ASK THE MXPERTS: HOW TO FIX KTM’S LEAKING GAS CAP
Dear MXA,
I own a brand-new 2007 KTM and the gas cap leaks. I complained to my dealer and he gave me a new gas cap. Guess what? It leaks too. What's the solution?
MXA's solution for the first version of KTM's aircraft-style quarter-turn gas caps was to take the KTM gas cap to the local hardware store and buy a rubber O-ring just big enough to slip over the gas cap threads. The O-ring will seal the tank. This is cheap and easy to do. On the later version KTM gas caps, the ones with the orange lock button, we take dykes and clip off the locking tabs (so that the lcoks don't work anymore). Then we put an O-ring on to insure that the caps doesn't leak.
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