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Main Area => General GS500 Discussion => Topic started by: JSH on March 12, 2005, 08:35:57 PM

Title: Bike has sat for 6 months
Post by: JSH on March 12, 2005, 08:35:57 PM
Bike starts but won't idle
Title: Oh well then ...
Post by: The Buddha on March 12, 2005, 08:38:05 PM
Oh no You know we dont condone that kind og activity in here ...
Yea you clean carbs ... yamaha carb cleaner and auxilliary tank and fill carbs and 24 hours of shaking etc .... then drain and vroom vroom ... easy ...
Cool.
Srinath.
Title: Bike has sat for 6 months
Post by: vfrocket on March 12, 2005, 11:53:06 PM
just revived my after 3 years of storage... I had to dissassemble the carbs, and clean.. pilot jets were clogged shut.

Carb cleaner trick might work, and less work.