Hi all. After 5 years of neglect and 2 years of sitting completely idle, I have decided to get back into riding and began prepping my 2007 TE510 this weekend. I dumped the 2 year old gas, charged the battery, and added fresh gas. The bike started right up with one problem. Gas was poring out the vent hose when I turn on the gas. I assume it the float was sticking, so I pulled the carb and while it was pretty gunky in the float bowl, the float seemed to move freely. Is there anything else that would cause the gas to poor out like that?
It's the o-ring that goes around the needle seat. Remove the floats then the flanged screw that holds in the seat. Sometimes they get stuck, have used snap ring pliers to get them out. Don't scratch the seating area you will see the o-ring it will be hard and brittle just pick it out with something like a needle, just avoid scratching the ID. Lightly grease the new o-ring. Mexifornia gas kills these o-rings. Later George
