13-04-20, 06:17 PM
(13-04-20, 05:35 PM)BBROWN1664 link Wrote: Leave it now for a couple of months and they start to gum up. The difference now is the amount of ethanol in the fuel that was never there before.
True that's why you must run the engine until it dies, that way most of the fuel is out of the carbs, which leaves almost nothing to separate and gum up. :thumbup The fuel remaining in the tank, with current fuel may well not behave like it did 15 yrs ago. Personally if I'm going to store a bike for more than a winter I run the bike until it's well into reserve, then do as above, top up with fresh and away it will go. For over winter, I don't bother, just run dry and leave it, all my bikes started first press back in early March, before all this virus thing. :thumbup
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