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21-03-14, 03:03 PM
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Unused for a year - drain the tank?
Folks,
My bike has been sitting for over a year. The tank is practically empty so I was going to syphon out the left over fuel and refill it with fresh fuel and some injector cleaner.... What do you's think? Will that be enough? It's running like a bag of Sh**e. Keeps cutting out, popping and banging etc... |
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22-03-14, 03:41 AM
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Re: Unused for a year - drain the tank?
Anyone?
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22-03-14, 06:16 AM
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Re: Unused for a year - drain the tank?
If it was running fine when you parked it up then that seems the most obvious thing to try first.
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22-03-14, 06:21 AM
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Re: Unused for a year - drain the tank?
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22-03-14, 12:55 PM
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Re: Unused for a year - drain the tank?
Nothing to strip on fuel injectors. Cleaning the tank out wouldn't be a bad start, might have water contamination.
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22-03-14, 02:23 PM
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Re: Unused for a year - drain the tank?
My old zx750r track bike was laid up over a year before I got it. Just ran red ex through tank with some shell max and never had any probs. it was on carbs though. I would drain tank run some paraffin in to it swill round then empty (or petrol) re drain then fill with injector cleaner and some v max fuel
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24-03-14, 07:29 PM
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Re: Unused for a year - drain the tank?
Got the injector cleaner today, but for the life of me I can't find paraffin.... I take it petrol will do?
I heard somewhere that too much injector cleaner is bad for the bike.... Should I measure out a proportionate amount or just bung the lot in? (It's supposed to do 50-60l) |
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24-03-14, 08:46 PM
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Re: Unused for a year - drain the tank?
Petrol in a petrol tank.... nah, could be dangerous
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24-03-14, 09:29 PM
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Put in a proportionate amount for the amount of petrol. IIRC 500ml=50 litres. So bung 10litres of petrol in and 50ml of Red-X
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