Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Aug 20, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> It's alive! >> >> Starts and runs beautifully! >> >> But after a few minutes starts to die and spits raw gasoline out of >> the carburetor air vent pipe. I suspect a stuck float valve. May have >> to farm this job out due to time constraints. > >Yes, stuck float valve. Tap the carb bodies lightly with a >screwdriver handle, see if that will dislodge it.
Already tried the tapping, to no avail. It may be, as Paul suggested, a bad float, but considering that the bike's just come out of storage, I'm thinking fuel-turned-into-glue is much more likely, fuel stabilizer or no. I've been running the motor every hour or so with a high proportion of carb/injector cleaner mixed into the gas. Seems to have helped and I'll see what tomorrow brings. But I suspect disassembly is in order. -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
