A rain storm killed my bike

[wheels]

A few days ago there was a torrential downpour that lasted a few minutes.  Before the rain my bike worked fine but now it has major problems.

After doing some searching I discovered that the overflow drain from the gas cap area was connected to the carb air intake so it looks like I got a fair amount of water in my carbs.

Before I realized that I had this problem I started my bike up and was running it for a few minutes.  It was really struggling.  (Probably because of all of the water in the carbs)  After about 15 seconds of running I noticed gasoline pouring out of my air filters.  (I'm guessing that this was a result of the water blocking the breather hose ( http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=33835.20 )

Once I realized that I was spewing gas I stopped the engine immediately and the gas appeared to stop.  The next morning I came out to a steady drip of gasoline that appeared to be coming from my right air filter.  (I have no frame mounted petcock valve so I guess fuel can still flow even when the engine is off)  I pulled the gas tank off and switched the tank's petcock valve to the off position which stopped the drip.  (My tank was almost empty, I guess 10 MPG isn't too bad  )

Today I fixed the hose routing  ( Gas cap drain to air / Carb breather to air)  I figured that I would be good to go since the water would sink to the bottom of the tank and I had dripped out almost a full tank of gas.  (I had also added a small amount of isopropyl alcohol to help with any remaining water)

I fired it up and had essentially the same result as before.  It struggled for a few seconds and then began spewing gas from the filters.

I pulled the tank off and also noticed a liquid dripping from the filter attached to the cylinder head cover.  It seemed too thick to be gas but too thin to be oil.

I unscrewed the oil cap to check the oil and there was a hissing as the pressure was equalizing.  Checking the dipstick the oil was defiantly to runny.  I'm guessing I somehow got gas in the oil.

I found this thread explaining how to flush the oil ( http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=7549.0 ) but I'm leary of doing it.  Will I just get more gas in my new oil?


Wow, sorry for the long post.
I guess to summarize:

Why does gas spew from the air filters if the breather hose is not blocked?
How did I get gas in my oil?
Why is gas/oil coming from the filter attached to the cylinder head cover?
What should I do now?

Rain Rain go away...

Thanks for any advice.

[ben2go]

Your carb floats are stuck open,allowing fuel to keep running into the carbs, causing them to over flow.I would srtip and clean them.


Cleaning and rebuilding carbs.= http://gstwin.com/carb_work.htm

Float height check.= http://www.bbburma.net/FloatHeight.htm

Carb sync = http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Maintenance/CarbSync

[wheels]

Ok, I drained my "oil" and got about 2.5 gallons of murky liquid out.  Well at least my tank of gas didn't ALL leak out onto the pavement like I had originally thought.
I also opened up the carb floatbowls and found some water and some dirt, other than that they seem all right.  I cleaned them out and closed them back up.