If it happens to you, shut the fuel petcock OFF, quickly grab a large screwdriver, hold the shaft and bang the float bowl with the handle ''eh" robustly or if you have a rubber or plastic mallet just do it. It may jar the needle closed long enough to get the fuel tank drained and get access to the float bowl drain, and carb serviced. Happens if bike is allowed to sit for awhile with bad gas in the carb...not that that would happen to this ol' dog...LOL!
NEWHD74FAN.
MAN,, YOU AND ARNOLD........LARGE SCREWDRIVER and WACK it.....
I guess that has worked for me more than a couple of times...I CRING to think about wacking and MISSING....... I try NOW to never let my bikes sit long enough for the CRUD to happen OR GROW.....SEA FOAM needed on my sporty TOMORROW as the big bike is licensed and I am able to ride it.. 65* today here in west wash.. a MILLION bikes out... rain tomorrow nite... but what a warm winter. EL-NINO, all OUR water seams to go to you in calif..
The stuff they call FUEL today...
I used to bypass your state in the motor home/bike because of the either in the gas in calif. GTBE? i think it was, We used to have it up here in WA. for a while but THANKFULLY IT GOT taken out...
I listened to DR Wattenberg on KGO AM radio(calif.) complaining to governor Brown to get it out..IT was poisoning the ground water.. That was a while ago...
I can still smell it a little today around the OLD service stations when i go thru calif....
Is that stuff still being used or have they caught on?
Enough for now... THANK YOU NEWHD74FAN YOU always have GOOD answers, and IT is ALWAYS FUN to read your post.... hope you didn't mind me joking with you......
signed....BUBBIE
OH, YES, the POINT of MY POST was "SEA FOAM"