first banshee... carb issue

[Koba]

i just picked up a 87' banshee with a 97' motor in it. It has a fresh rebuild it but it is dumping fuel out of the overflows on the carbs after i shut it off it seems like. Im thinking it could be the floats might be stuck. What should i do?

Edited March 19, 2012 by Koba

[ClayAiken]

Check the floats and are you shutting off the petcock?

[2strokenit]

How does the bike run when your driving it?

[Finch]

i fought that for ever took them apart cleaned the needle seat and set float high doesnt do it no more

[Koba]

runs really good while im riding it idles good to.. just after i turn it off it seems to accumulate on the case and run down my swing arm from the overflow lines it looks like. not sure they were just taken apart and cleaned from the guy i bought it from the day i picked it up. so i guess when i rejet it i will go though and clean them up again and see if that helps.

[rjdgriff]

Stock carbs are bad about leaking... When I had stock carbs they always leaked after I shut her down, I just turned the gas off whenever I got done riding

[Koba]

i guess ill jump on it this weekend and give it a try. i gotta fix a coolant leak at my tank. so i might as well clean the whole thing up good and beat on it and give turing the gas off a try between starts.

[Larry's Shee]

Don't laugh, I did it and it works, unless rubber on needle valve is shot http://www.blasterforum.com/do-yourself-20/easy-almost-free-way-stop-leaky-carbs-33335/

[Koba]

well looks like i have some work ahead of me. i will deffinitly try that if just shutting the gas off right after riding doesnt work. thanks for the link to will help alot.

[Larry's Shee]

be sure not to mix slides and float bowls, they are different from left/right

[cline]

Don't laugh, I did it and it works, unless rubber on needle valve is shot http://www.blasterforum.com/do-yourself-20/easy-almost-free-way-stop-leaky-carbs-33335/

 

That is one hell of a trick that I would have never thought of when trying to get the carb to stop leaking. You're the man, thanks for the link Larry!

[Koba]

so figured out it wasnt the carbs leaking it looks like its coming from a bung right behind the carbs on the right side. Its a bigger hose more like a its for coolant but i have what appears to be trans fluid. So looks like its time to tear down and figure out where thats coming from...

[slothman]

so figured out it wasnt the carbs leaking it looks like its coming from a bung right behind the carbs on the right side. Its a bigger hose more like a its for coolant but i have what appears to be trans fluid. So looks like its time to tear down and figure out where thats coming from...

Post pictures. Are you SURE it's leaking transmission fluid ? Kinda hard to mistake gas for tranny fluid, lol.

[cline]

^^^^^^I agree^^^^^ gas and tranny fluid pretty hard to mix up I'd think

[Koba]

well at first i noticed the gas... i wiped it down and noticed i was still leaking something and it was pooling up in the valley behind the carbs. I wiped it with a white towel and it was red so its tranny fluid. im not sure how it was pooling up back there, but i was a half court low on trann fluid i think it the gas i saw before was just spilled from when the carbs were off the night before. I will post up a picture hopefully this weekend when i got some time.