April 2, 2010 at 10:53 pm
#25380
Jeff in Kentucky
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You most likely need to clean one of the float valves.
To prevent this from happening, before you store the bike for the winter put Sea Foam in the gas tank, and run the engine enough to get the Sea Foam into the carbs. Leave the gas valve turned on all winter, so that as the gasoline slowly evaporates from the float bowls, more gasoline comes from the gas tank to refill the float bowls. When gasoline evaporates it leaves behind a gummy mess, and if the carb gaskets get dried out from no gasoline in the carbs, they can shrink and crack.