Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Your Winterizing Techniques for fuel systems?
Desert Panther:
--- Quote from: Platypus on December 24, 2007, 05:22:48 AM ---I would recommend draining the fuel completely. I have also read that you should remove the spark plug and put a few drops of motor oil into the cylinder. I have seen tooooooooo many people come out riding after their bikes sat with gas in them for a while and they would not start even after draining the old gas and filling up with new. Usually required taking the carb apart and cleaning it. Just happened a couple weeks to a my friends wife CRF230 and it's not even premixed gas. Seriously I see this happen at least three times a year. So much easier to just drain that gas. I drain mine after every ride just in case I don't get the chance to go back out soon. I just put the extra gas in my truck.
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you pour pre-mix into your truck??? LMAO :-D How's the catalytic convertor like that? Or is it an old truck?
Platypus:
--- Quote from: Desert Panther on December 25, 2007, 08:13:08 PM ---
you pour pre-mix into your truck??? LMAO :-D How's the catalytic convertor like that? Or is it an old truck?
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Well I got 210k hard miles out of my last truck before I sold it and I put 96k on my current truck in 3 years so they both like 2-stroke I guess.
don46:
Who cares, it's wayy to cold to ride :-D :-D :-D, I don't even like to ride my snomobile when it gets that cold, I've become a fair weather rider, everything has to be just right.
steve1965:
Well the way to winterize my bike is to ride the hell out of it (live in Buckeye AZ). It is the best time of the year out here. So I would have to say summarizing it is the thing here gets a bit on the hot side and is hard to ride allot. I drain the carb and put stabul in the tank and do not seem to have any problems. Hope you find a place to ride it would really be bad if I could not ride when I wanted to.
BDI:
I let the gas go real bad then when I'm ready to ride I drain the tank and clean the carb put in some fresh fuel and go ride. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :-D :-D
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