crustrummer84

Last year, when I would start the bike, it would hemorrhage gas out the back end...or so we thought. This year, before really getting it running, we checked the oil, and it was way overfilled. Turned out, it was filled with gas. I changed the oil, and for a while, it was doing excellent. Now, it's starting to leak oil in the same spot, but not quite hemorrhaging. And it only leaks when it gets running. Can't find the problem description in the manuals, and I'm no mechanic, so I need to know what part to check and what to look for. We cleaned the carbs twice, but not entirely sure we knew what to look for. Problem number two: the gas line leaks. Changed the hose recently, and it began to leak. Now we put on the screw clamps (so the seal is definitely tight), but it still kind of leaks, only from the petcock end. Problem number three: (which I get the feeling may be a tune up deal), getting it idling. Eventually, it does idle, but it takes a lot of mid-ride tweaking. It has three phases of idling. There's in between, where it's not warm enough to run without the choke, but with the choke off, it dies. Then, it warms a bit, and I crank up the idle screw thingy, and it idles great. Then, it gets real warm, and I have to turn down the idle. What to check? I call it Frank N. Stein. The bike has been through hell (not with me). It's been dropped AT LEAST twice, sat under a tarp for a Chicago year before I had it, had some rust in the tank, so who knows what that could have caused. So yeah, really any tips on things to test, tweak, check, anything anyone out there has learned from experience; good and bad. :-D

I have a chilton's manual, followed the directions, and it just didn't happen. The bike sat for about a year and used to have a fuel leak. The old tank was shot to crap and full of sparkling (no joke) rust. We replaced the tank, battery and spark plugs. It was running GREAT for a while. Now it does the dreaded over-rev and won't come down. Sprayed carb cleaner all over, nothing. Figure some fleck of rust is stuck somewhere in the carbs messing them up, and I would just love to clean those suckers out if I could just get the stinking things off. Disclaimer, the following descriptions will have a lot of "thingies", as I am no mech. I removed the tank, and loosed the screws on the hoses per the instructions. When I "carefully pulled the carbs back" nothing happened. I pulled back, forward, side to side, removed the stiffer hoses attached to the manifold (pouring gas alllllll over) but couldn't get the added chunks of metal around the manifold, tried to wedge in a screwdriver, used tons of different positions for leverage, everything that I could think of. I reread the manual a billion times, but it still had the same four-step "just do this and voila" thing I tried to do. I was able to free it from the hoses in the back, sorta, but just couldn't get that front end off. Am I missing something or do I just have the muscle the crap out if it and hope there's a replacement part for anything I break? Is there a how-to vid somewhere?