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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Holmes" data-source="post: 30999" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>Not a particularly Vincent related question this but I thought I would ask anyway. As I am either totally stupid or just plain lazy I left fuel in my Yamaha FJ1200 ABS for a number of years, although the FJ is a really nice machine I simply prefer my Vincents, consequently the FJ just sat there and occasionally got started up and run, but then the battery died and it just languished at the rear of garage. I decided it is now time to sell it so I attempted to start it with a jump battery, the petrol pump ticked for a while just like usual, the choke pull appeared seized and then something vaguely resembling fuel poured all over the garage floor, Hmmm so it would appear that the fuel ( I wont call it petrol cause it aint) has evaporated back to its residual components and seized and blocked the carbs and floats, is there any solution to this problem other than scrap the carbs or scrap the bike, I guess new carbs would cost more than the bike is worth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Holmes, post: 30999, member: 302"] Not a particularly Vincent related question this but I thought I would ask anyway. As I am either totally stupid or just plain lazy I left fuel in my Yamaha FJ1200 ABS for a number of years, although the FJ is a really nice machine I simply prefer my Vincents, consequently the FJ just sat there and occasionally got started up and run, but then the battery died and it just languished at the rear of garage. I decided it is now time to sell it so I attempted to start it with a jump battery, the petrol pump ticked for a while just like usual, the choke pull appeared seized and then something vaguely resembling fuel poured all over the garage floor, Hmmm so it would appear that the fuel ( I wont call it petrol cause it aint) has evaporated back to its residual components and seized and blocked the carbs and floats, is there any solution to this problem other than scrap the carbs or scrap the bike, I guess new carbs would cost more than the bike is worth. [/QUOTE]
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