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Up here in the North, ( I know, it's South for some of you guys) there are a few times my garage will get below freeze temps, so I bring in the trolling motor battery and the XS battery. To get them to last more than 2-3 years, you have to baby the things.
Untrue of battery contents freezing unless it goes 'flat' or dead on voltage.
81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.
In non running bikes, I usually drain the float bowls and tank and then spray the insides of the float bowls and tank with wd 40....if you use then red tube, its easy..
It's the ethanol causes the problem/s as I see it. Blue stabil, Sea foam, and others will help keep the fuel from breaking down and turning to a mud like mixture in the float bowls. I suggest it may even have to do with some reaction to the aluminum in the carbs. Some carbs cleaners can draw the oils out of the aluminum to cause this sludge.
Still run the engine when possible if you leave the fuel in (good idea as I see it)
open the fuel valves every month to keep the bowls full as possible.
Well ?
Wish I could find non ethanol. The reason the midnight is down is because I was called out on a job for 3 weeks and had to leave next day. Got back and the dang carbs were shot. Best thing now is the v is fuel injected. handles sitting and ethanol much better.
Wish I could find non ethanol. The reason the midnight is down is because I was called out on a job for 3 weeks and had to leave next day. Got back and the dang carbs were shot. Best thing now is the v is fuel injected. handles sitting and ethanol much better.
3 weeks shouldn't have been an issue.
There are a few non ethanol stations near Conroe. Google non ethanol gas in Texas.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.
Seafoam is to be used in fuel as a cleaning agent, not a fuel stabilizer.
I use Seafoam in the winter with everything I own that has an engine. It's a better stabilizer than Sta-bil. In the spring after months of sitting, power washers, mowers, chainsaws, 4 wheeler, bikes, etc.. all smell like fresh gas and it's probably done some cleaning for me that it needed from normal use. Everything fires up in the spring like it did in the fall.
So, not sure why you'd make that statement, but my experience is the exact opposite. Glad you've found something that works for you though.
Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still own
It did a lot of on and off sitting over the years. Po started it about every 2 weeks may have ridden it every 6 months.
Oh heck.. It's wore smooth out then. Better let me take it off your hands.
Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still own
Well, most rock stars just keep going back to rehab... lol
Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still own
My garage gets below freezing. My neighbors probably hate me, but I run the bikes at least every 10 to 14 days for 10 minutes. I use a throttle lock and a fan if I can't ride them. Use StaBil. I have throttle locks and ear plugs. The main thing is not make sure that you don't over-charge the batteries. I haven't had to rehab the carbs in many years (knock on wood).
Skids (Sid Hansen)
Down to one 1978 E. Stock air box with K&N filter, 81H pipes and carbs, 8500 feet elevation.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.
A good step for the bikes is put them on the centerstand or jack it up level stick a 2X4 under the front wheel so the back is down. This does a few things first if carbs and petcocks leak it goes back to filter box and not into engine. Second if you start and run the bike it is running level and does not wear the floats to where they stick open on the side of the carb bowls. And also if gas is left in it then it is sitting in there level and does not leave a scum line that is cross ways on the bowel and float pin.
To fix the problem one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.
Easy fix for everyone's problems of storage. Pull your man card out and clip it to your shirt. Move the dining room table somewhere else. Wheel the ole XS right into the spot the table was at. Put er up on the center stand. Put a couple of family pictures on the tank and seat and maybe a jar of the potpourri stuff and a couple of bar stools next to it. There, climate controlled storage. If you line the exhaust up pointing toward the sliding glass door, weekly startups should not present a problem. I am sure your cot will fit in the space the bike used to be parked in the garage.
The first wither, 2008, that I owned the XJ650, I rode it every day that there was no snow on the roads. A few days were 10 deg F. I looked like the Michelen man on the bike.
I begin using Stabil in the fall and use it all through the winter. Just in case I get called out of town or get too busy to ride it often.
Owning a balaclava is what cured me of fearing winter rides. The only real problem is fogging of the helmet face shield. Its an art to opening it just enough to keep the fogging down while not freezing the face.
On the truly cold days I wear 3 layers of clothes and I use really good ski gloves.
82 XJ1100 - sold
96 Honda Magna 750 - Girlfriend's bike
2000 ZRX1100 - sold
2003 FJR1300 - Silver rocket
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