Old Bikes - Grrr

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.

 

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

 

No problem TC glad to help