Need a little help

[Jerry W]

My son in law and I were going to ride today and when we started up gas poured out of his bike onto the ground. The bike is a 1996 Royal Star and it looks like the gas is coming out of the overflow from the carbs on the left side. I am thinking it is a stuck float, but we are having no luck on getting the problem resolved. We have the tank and air filter off the bike. Anyone have any tips on how to get this fixed?

[Freebird]

I too would bet that it's a stuck float. Tapping on the bowl will often free them up but sometimes you actually end up having to pull the carb and clean it out real well. You might try some Seafoam right into the throat body and let it sit for a while then more tapping.

[Kregerdoodle]

Did you try tapping on the bowl to see if that will free up the float?? short of removing the bowl, I have not a clue.. Good luck, and let us know what you find.

 

K

[Jerry W]

We have the tank off and started the bike with sea foam in the gas line. We ran it enough to hopefully fill the carbs with pure seafoam, maybe this will free it up. I will go back out and tap the carbs and see what happens. I will let you know what we come up with. Thanks for the fast replys, you guys are awesome.

[cecdoo]

If there is a drain screw on the carb bowls, remove the screw and spray carb cleaner up into the bowl, flooding and washing out any debris, works on my Suzuki. Craig

[BOO]

We have the tank off and started the bike with sea foam in the gas line. We ran it enough to hopefully fill the carbs with pure seafoam, maybe this will free it up. I will go back out and tap the carbs and see what happens. I will let you know what we come up with. Thanks for the fast replys, you guys are awesome.

 

I agree with the guys, stuck float or flooded float.

I've never had much luck in just tapping on them but you never know what might happen. I've never thought of running pure seafoam into them either but that sounds like something that could work.

I had to take mine apart and clean them to get it corrected, didn't really find anything but there could have been something stuck in the needle seat.

Good Luck,

Jerry

[BuddyRich]

You'll know if you have enough seafoam when it starts smoking. That's when its filled the bowls and its starting to burn nothing but seafoam. May have to choke it to get it to start again.

[Jerry W]

Thanks for all the tips, but it looks like the carbs are going to have to come off. Neither of us has any experience in pulling the carbs are a little reluctant to just start taking stuff off. Is there a link with instructions and hopefully some pictures on carburator removal and cleaning?

[Freebird]

Here's one for the RSV. Won't be exactly the same but probably very similar.

 

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7830

[pegscraper]

First things first. Why is he not a member here??? I like the '96 Royal Stars. Throw up some pics please.

[Jerry W]

Pegscraper,

My son in law is a member here, his bike is the same color as yours. It is actually my old bike, I bought the RSV when I retired and sold the Royal Star to him. The origional Royal Stars are great bikes.

[pegscraper]

Oh, I figured because you were asking for him that he probably wasn't. Who is he then? Is there a gallery?

[BradT]

If there is a drain screw on the carb bowls, remove the screw and spray carb cleaner up into the bowl, flooding and washing out any debris, works on my Suzuki. Craig

 

Try this first. Or you can remove the fuel line and do the same thing, but will actually get right to the seat area of teh float.

 

BRad

[Jerry W]

Oh, I figured because you were asking for him that he probably wasn't. Who is he then? Is there a gallery?

 

 

We were at my house when the problem started, so I was using the computer here and he was outside messing with the bike. He is TMongold, no gallery.

[Jerry W]

I will see if there is a way to spray carb cleaner directly into the bowls without removing the carbs, thanks for all the tips. We will let you know how it works out.

[Rich99]

My son in law and I were going to ride today and when we started up gas poured out of his bike onto the ground. The bike is a 1996 Royal Star and it looks like the gas is coming out of the overflow from the carbs on the left side. I am thinking it is a stuck float, but we are having no luck on getting the problem resolved. We have the tank and air filter off the bike. Anyone have any tips on how to get this fixed?

It happened to me going down Hwy 49 on the way to Death Valley with a couple of my friends. We did the tapping thing to no avale, and then one of the guys I was with told me to try this. This was on my 83 Venture, and with a fuel pump, he suggested getting on it like like I was at the drag strip and maybe the piece of dirt that was stuck in the jet might break lose under the demand of the pressure needed to get going real fast and wala, it broke lose and we were on our way. I know it sounds simple and it might not work this time but what the heck, give it a try.

[bikerkwatt]

I do not know for sure if the carbs are set up the same as the 05,but if it is check the small hoses coming off the air boxes inside top of carbs.My 05 was flooding on the left side could not figure out why removed carbs several times to no avail would run good

for a little while then go to pot.Not for sure if it is a vent hose or what one had mud worm nest in it cleaned it been running good ever since.

[Jerry W]

Thanks for the tips, we haven't pulled the carbs yet so we will try pulling seafoam in the gas line, starting it up and blowing it out a little and checking the hoses to see if they need cleaned out. Thanks again for your input.

[cowpuc]

Do as mentioned about draining the carbs and then shooting carb cleaner in the draing hoses - put the little red tube from the cleaner can up in to the carb overflow tubes and DROWNED each carb.. Let the carbs drain back out.. Find the fuel hose feeding the carbs and splice it a spot where you can get the nozzle of an air gun into it.. Pick up a air chuck for your air compressor ---- you know,,, the kind used for blowing high pressure air for parts cleaning.. attach a piece of tubing on the air chuck that will fit tightly into the gas line - got a do a little McGivering.. WIth the bowls EMPTY apply 60 pounds of air in quick puffs into the fuel line.. What doing it this way does is drops the floats down so the float valve is open and debris can pass thru.. Now pick up an inline filter and place it where you spliced the fuel line.. Unless for some reason your float valves have been compromised and are ruined this works great..

The tapping on the float idea is also a VERY good method and simple fix.. I once tapped on sticky floats while crossing the country on a 69 Honda 750 Chopper with rust in its tank... Bike would start running rich and I would reach down and tap on the carbs and it would clean right out.. 9 days of riding, 4000 miles and 2500 taps,,, had a blast but those carb bowls looked like a wood pecker had attacked them them hahahha

'Puc