SKWEARpeg wrote:
[/quote]Dump a pint in, a couple of hundred miles before your ready to change the oil. I imagine once every 15,000 miles or so, would keep it cleaned out good.[/quote]

Roger that. Will do. Thanx SKWEARpeg!

roderider wrote:
after riding all say 150 miles on the way home going around 55 the engine starts to run like being flooded loss of power when trying to accelerate had to pull off to the sholder even at idle it ran like now power i turned off the fuel valve ran the carb dry open the valve tried to start stil the same i tried to get to a gas station on the sholder then all of the sudden it cleared out i rode home 50 miles no problem.the next day and following week i rode with not a problem.
well i thought water in the tank and it cleared out then on sun i rode 50 miles and the same thing happen but i tried to keep riding it cleared out after about 2 min it ran very poor (no back firing just like it was sputtering )then all of the sudden it ran just fine. any ideas where to look or start

roderider,

Did you ever get this resolved? I didn't mean to hijack the topic! Sorry!!!!

Found this is in another forum posting:

Re:Gas Leaking!! 13 Minutes ago
UPDATE:
Well as so many times in life my trip was canceled due to circumstances out of my control. I thought what the hell lets try a good rich mixture of 44k. I have now ran 4 tanks of 44k through and it seems to have fixed the sticky needle and seat. While it is difficult to judge but I seemed to have gained a little bit of power as well.

Anyway I thought this might be useful for anyone looking to run some really good cleaner through their fuel system. 4 tanks of seafoam didn't do it so I'm sold on the 44k.

So how does he know it wasn't the 4 tanks of Seafoam?????

Startron is another pretty good product I've seen mentioned on here.


The leaking needle and seat can also be a couple of other things besides varnish. The seat has a tiny o-ring around the base, that you won't see until it is removed from its little pocket. If that o-ring is shot/damaged for whatever reason, it'll let gas past around the outside of the seat. Keeb had an issue where his was leaking, and when he pulled the seat, it was crudded up so bad on the bottom side, that it had gone beyond simple varnish, and required him to replace the whole needle and seat instead of just cleaning it. When Keeb had originally pulled the needle, and looked into the seat, the seat was clean as a whistle on the inside. Little pieces of the crud must have been breaking loose and causing the seat to leak(just a guess).

The real Seafoam clean job for a carb, involves sucking the Seafoam into the fuel line while the engine is running, until you see smoke start to come out of the exhaust. By that time, the Seafoam has filled the bowl, and the passages in the pilot circuit, etc.. You then shut the engine off, and let it sit a minimum of 8 hours. After it has sat, you start the engine, get it running, and take a ride(drive)to burn the Seafoam out. It'll smoke

I've wondered about rigging up some sort of gravity feed with the Seafoam, sort of like an IV, so the gravity would let the Seafoam run into the carb inlet on the bike. My lawn mower has the fuel pump situated so that I can just stick the fuel line in the bottle, and it'll suck it into the carb. I thought it might work to run it into the Bowl vent on the 40CV, after draining the bowl also, but I don't know if there is a one way valve in the bowl vent that would prevent it. That could be accomplished with a short piece of hose and a small funnel....."if".

Anyway, saturday morning pondering, in the middle of the internet highway.