petrol coming out of bike but dont know why!! help!!

[ikkledivel]

Hey guys I need your help...

I came off the bike abit ago so its been stood for a few months whilst i got new parts and waited for the weather to be good to work outside. Weve not been able to start the bike and theres a really powerful smell of petro when we tryl. We got the tank off, saw petrol in the air box so cleaned it out and whilst this was being done tried starting the bike which started up fine, bit of smoke and sounding rough but it started BUT as soon as we connected the tank back up after cleaning the airbox, and tried starting the bike, the bike wouldnt start and petrol once again poured out!!

where do i look to sort this, i cant see anything wrong with the connections, no rips or tears observeable but for some reason when the tank is connected the bike wont start and just pours petrol on to the floor instead looking like through the carbs possibly.

Background to accident - minor spill on left hand side resulting in broken engine casing and snapped gears hanger, windsreen and holder so bike did go over leading me to believe petrol would go into air box but no cracks on petrol tank seen.


Please help im going insane without my bike...

Thanks for any advice or help

Nic
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[Jorge]

hi mate,
I had this with my bike too, its to do with the float switch in the carbourator. if you can manage to get the bike started use the handle end of a screw driver and firmly but lighty tap the carbourator on the bottom of the float bowl but try to keep moving the throttle while you do this.
Let us know how you get on all the best pal.
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[ikkledivel]

[radical]

Op, I would strongly suggest that you change the oil and filter as the petrol may have got into the cylinder head via open valves and got past your pistons and into the engine/gearbox oil. I would NOT ride or start the bike until an oil/filter change has been done.

[ikkledivel]

[Jorge]

[MarJay]

Jorge is right in the sense that the floats can get stuck in the float bowls, however tapping it with a screwdriver is only a temporary solution. Opening and closing the throttle at the same time will do absolutely bog all.

You ideally need to strip and clean the carbs. You *might* get away with bunging a load of Redex in the tank but I've never seen it actually work.
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[Digit]

+1
Just bite the bullet and clean the float bowls. On some carbs it can be done with the carbs in situ.

Roy.
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