95jersey wrote:
TWZMYJP wrote:
allcool wrote:
I must be old school,,, How about fixing the leaks...?
I have to laugh, because this was my first thought as well, particularly when the OP mentions "... an ounce of prevention..."
No leaks but t have a carb that occasionally spits out gas through the overflow.
jfyi, This is what I've found over the years to prevent a fuel overflow spill on a carb'd engine that usually have a fuel petcock/shutoff. EFI engines no longer have this leaking problem.
Sometimes that petcock unfortunately gets old and doesn't shut fully any longer. They're are easy to rebuild with a few new o-rings/cleanup and get back to a tight positive shut off.
What I've found best, is to shut off fuel and drain the float bowl before storage in the TH, or anywhere.
Leaving this current day 'pump gas in a carb for weeks/months is a eventual recipe for varnish and carb problems. And leaking.
If draining the float bowl is not easy to do/accessible, then on a quad or dirt bike, if you stand it straight up on its rear wheels for a moment or 2, all fuel will drain out of the float bowl overflow tube emptying the bowl.
jmo
