96 GS500e oil/gas mix leak

[ampalm]

OK, boys and girls. I'm new to your website and have a problem. Purchase a '96 GS500e w/ 2300miles, two day ago for my wife. It was not running for sometime YEARS?, so I drained the gas, changed the oil, and installed new battery. The thing came to life no problem, but it idle very poorly, it was getting late so I get the manual and read. Today, I started it up and let it run thinking it would work itself out. After about 5-10 minutes it stalled and started pouring a oil/gas mix out the air box hose under the bike. I took the carbs off and clean the floats and put back together, It started open no problem run better and then still again leaking that same oil/gas mix. What's up? I'm I up the Creek. Help!!!! Thanks, Matthew. :dunno:

[scottpA_GS]

If it is anything like my bike I was getting gas in the air box. not oil though I dont belive..

Anyway It may be comming in through the vaccum line from the petcock. And flooding the engine. block the vaccum tube w/ a screw, block the petcock end (to vaccum) w/ same or stoper.

Then run w/ petcock on prime. Fixed mine....

Thats a start. But may need major cleening, or ?? etc..

[scratch]

Did you set the float level?

[ampalm]

How do you Set? Please help. Took the Carbs off tonight and going to clean and reinstall tomorrow.

[Kerry]

See this post for details.  Subsequent posts in the same thread shed light on how the whole float concept works.

[Faxxxy]

First off, from everything I have read here, these bikes are notoriously cold natured..(as most air cooled bikes tend to be).. 5 to 10 minutes of sitting and idling may or may not get it to operating temperature..

The fix (as I understand it) is to put .40 pilot jets in the carbs and this helps with the cold starts.

To me, your problem sounds as if you have the choke turned on..
After approaching operating temperature, the choke will kill the bike..
This can cause a back pressure situation and suck fuel back into your air filter if left on too long..

The last nugget of wisdom I will pass along is never to idle your bike without a fan blowing across it.. Remeber, its air cooled..

None of this can I say from experience.. Just regurgitating things I have picked up herein this forum..

[My Name Is Dave]

So for the fan part of your post, is that always? I let the bike run for 5 minutes last night on the center stand after changing the oil with no fan, and everytime I ride I warm it up for 3 or 4 minutes in idle (with choke) with no fan. I have no real way of putting a fan in my back yard where I keep the bike.  :dunno:

dave  

[Faxxxy]

I have never put a fan on mine either..
It doesn't have a fan on it when you're stopped at a stoplight..

But it isn't a bad idea if you're going to idle for a long time..

I even read where one guy melted his front fender by the heat coming off the engine..