So this morning as the weather was pretty nice, I thought I'd take out my old Suzuki GS750. It's been on trickle charge for ages and although not been started up for months I was confident it would start. And it did start pretty nicely, however I noticed that petrol was pouring out from under one of the carbs, not just a trickle or a drop or two, but peeing out. Damn and blast . As I didn't want to ride a petrol bomb it went back in the garage. Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this, otherwise it's got to go down to my local mechanics to fix. I know - I know it's my fault for not running it more often. Anyway took the Virago 1100 out instead (it's also in virtual retirement) and it ran really faultlessly. What a lovely bike they were/are.
A bit of muck in a carb preventing the float needle sealing off and causing the flooding. Sometimes a sharp tap on the float chamber of the offending carb will dislodge it resulting in much happiness.
Thanks guys. I read the article on Ethanol but it didn't say why they put it in petrol. Probably another excuse to put up the price
I'm with the 3 above suggestions. Had to do the turning petrol off leaving engine running til bike stopped when I pulled into a cafe on a hardly ridden carbed HD. Worked a treat. Dirt in tank causing float needle to stick, and have had to tap carb which worked ok too to get float needle to close. If you can see to unscrew float chamber drain with petrol off, you would see which carb is not seating properly as petrol would keep draining out. Tapping method and off//on method should stop draining. Failing that carb strip for dirt. That is of course if you have no visible leak from tank/petrol lines.
I had a gs1000 which had been off the road for a few years it had the same leak. It was due to the fuel pipe which runs to the centre of the carbs onto a union which has two rubbers either side which "dry out" turning the tap on till it leaks a bit then off and leave it for a while repeated this a few times say over a couple of days and it should reseal itself. hth
TC. It's a yet another DICTAT from the fekkin' EUSSR to cut down those nasty exhaust gases from these dirty 'orrible infernal combustion engin thingies. It don't do doggie do's worth of good to cut down the pollution, all it does is rot fuel tanks and rubber bits, and, as ethanol burns it gives off nasty 'orrible gases that combine with oxygen, CO2 etc to make things as bad as they were before. Oh forgot, it also puts up the price the of liquid gold to burn in said engines
Thanks for the tip. Sounds interesting and a possibility. I have a friend ready to assist with this job so we'll check this out when we ever get round to looking at it. Cheers TC
Rocker - you rock!!!! Took the bike out of the garage and expecting the worst, fired her up. Not a drop leaked. Took her for a 50km run and was trouble free except for an achy throttle hand. These old bikes are tough to ride but so enjoyable. Cheers all. TC
