21-05-18, 02:27 PM
(21-05-18, 01:55 PM)Bretty link Wrote: Presumably you can determine the likelihood of rust going from your tank to the carbs by inspecting your fuel filter under the tank.. If it's a dirty rusty colour or white.
Not always, filters change colour as they're filter fuel, these particles are that small they get through the filter. All bikes will have some particles in the float bowls, it looks like brown dust suspended in the fuel normally in the float drain cavity. When the fuel evaporates from the bowls the particles from into a dry sediment, get enough of the stuff suspended in the fuel and it starts to build up in certain areas where fuel sits while the engine isn't running i.e. jets.
Over time (years) of not being used over winter this eventually blocks the jet, the issue isn't the fuel it's the rust/debris in the tank that's slowly getting drawn onto the fuel system. If you've got more than just a small amount of this brown looking sediment in the float bowls check your tank.
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