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Athena · Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 19

Got home yesterday and there was a smell of burning rubber comming off the GTS ??

The tyres looked fine with no obvious scrapeing or wear ?

I do not have a mudflap fitted so that rules that out

Any ides Folks

Maver · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

belt................. Question

rear hugger....... Question

crap on the exhaust....... Question

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Jason · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject:

I get the same on mine, I've just had the belt and rollers done and they discovered that the crank nut had come loose and part of the variator was damaged so I guess the belt would've been slipping a bit which would explain the smell. I also have a 140 rear tyre on and I had to trim a little bit of the hugger away as it was rubbing.

Brent Martin · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:24 am Post subject:

I had this problem on our ET4. Turned out to be the axle support bearing (Grease packed sealed bearing) went bad and melted the rubber seals
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Jason · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:27 am Post subject:

Did you find out what it was in the end? Mine still smells of hot rubber, worse in the wet!

Athena · Joined: 12 Oct 2008 Posts: 19

Yea it does still smell abit but not as much now , she runs and handles fine ?

scoot · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 12 Location: isle of wight

mine smells the same.
Brand new GTS300 Sad

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Vinnie · Joined: 29 Nov 2008 Posts: 8

Maybe a left field thought but check your coolant hoses.

Never gave mine a thought til I fitted a PM pipe and the hose fouled and melted on it.

SOELEY · Inspector Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 106

It get the same smell on the Fuoco Confused

Can't place where it's comming from, nothing seems amiss tho Question

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Jason · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject:

I'm guesing the smell on mine is coming from the belt, gave it a good old sniff test!!! Need to get the cover off and have look inside. I get a bit of a rattle on tick over, the clutch nut and variator nut are tight I've checked them.

smudger · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject:

Mines always done this too, defo not the belt as I replaced it at 8000 miles and it looked fine no real sign of wear (so I've kept it as a spare).
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CheekyThomas · Guvernor Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 1374

It could be a bit of transmission smell, mixture of warm belt and clutch dust, but more likely just a super heated catalyst in the exhaust stinking away... Another reason for a PM pipe! Haha.

SOELEY · Inspector Joined: 06 Jun 2008 Posts: 106

Not mine I've got a MIVV on it.
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scooterman66 · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:16 pm Post subject:

Mine does nt smell since i put my scorpion on, must ve been paint coming off the original pipe i reckon, there are a few flaky bits on it
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Jason · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject:

Mine has a PM. Cool