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Kawasaki Vulcan 800 Classic, Vulcan 800 Drifter, Vulcan 1500 Classic. Published by Transport Canada as 2004018 on 20 January 2004. System: Fuel System.

What the notice says On certain motorcycles, the accelerator pump diaphragm may be damaged by excessive assembly clamping pressure, thus allowing fuel to leak from the pump actuating rod area. Fuel leakage in the presence of an ignition source could result in a fire. Correction: Dealers will replace the accelerator pump diaphragm. …

Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.

What Transport Canada published

Recall number
2004018
Recall date
20 January 2004
Make
Kawasaki
Models
Vulcan 800 Classic, Vulcan 800 Drifter, Vulcan 1500 Classic
Model years
2003
Vehicle class
Motorcycle
System
Fuel System
Raised as
Safety MFR
Vehicles affected
1,585
Register
Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database

On certain motorcycles, the accelerator pump diaphragm may be damaged by excessive assembly clamping pressure, thus allowing fuel to leak from the pump actuating rod area. Fuel leakage in the presence of an ignition source could result in a fire. Correction: Dealers will replace the accelerator pump diaphragm. Note: This recall supercedes recall 03-242.

The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2004018.

The Canadian register on this site

Kawasaki elsewhere in this register

Kawasaki is named on 145 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.

The same system: Fuel System

866 notices in this register name Fuel System. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.

Reading this against the source

This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.

What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.

This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Kawasaki: 145 in the register, and 449 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2004.

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