Flooding

[Anonymous]

My 85' GS 550L is flooding quite often. Is this a carb problem?

[jtcrespo]

Re: Flooding

My 85' GS 550L is flooding quite often. Is this a carb problem?

If it's not the carbs, it's your wrist. What is your starting method? I assume it's flooding at startup.

On a properly tuned bike you should just use choke and the start button. There is no need for throttle as long as the float bowls already have gas in them.

[Anonymous]

Start up is fine

No my bike is fine on start up. I never need to give it gas to start it. It just floods at weird times. Like I could have just ridden for an hour on the highway and then as soon as I get back in town it wont stay running at an intersection and I can smell gas and the exaust smokes.

[Anonymous]

Oh sorry

and I have even seen gas dripping from inbetween the carbs and air intake

[Katamaniac]

sounds like you have a needle valve that is sticking on you. If this is the case, you are in for a Carb cleaning. Go to the Carb cleaning section on the home page. There are step-by-step instructions for cleaning your carbs. You will also want to get a set of o-rings from Robert Barr.

[jtcrespo]

I agree, a good carb cleaning is in order. Along with the o-rings, you may want to replace the gaskets on the float bowls. Make sure your float-height is set right as well.

Here's the link to the cleaning instructions.

http://www.thegsresources.com/gs_carbrebuild.htm