Marcarl

If you keep it, it will most likely just sit there and rot some more, but of you sell it there is a good chance that the new owner might restore it or at least bring it back enough to be used. Which would your dad do?

Heat with an air gun, not a blow torch.

I;m really thinking he was going home, but I could be wrong.

Got me 3 of those, 2 on the scoot and lost one now that I don't have a tractor to plow snow with,, come to think of it, lost the spinner on the tractor as well. But they do work well. Nice thing about them is that the arms can be heated and then adjusted for different sized mugs,

If that is the inside of the tank, I would be suggesting something maybe.

He doesn't need any sweetening.

Problem with you wandering is when might you get there??? We do have coffee and beer here in Canada eh.

I find that is best done with the hose attached to the breather, then carefully lower into the proper position one little step at a time, in the end a long needle nosed pliers finishes the job. Now if there are 2 people it can go easier, but you'll have to learn to communicate real well.

I'm thinkin that you meant @Dutch Navigatormaybe?

It would help if you can post a picture of the plates, they do need to be lined up proper I think.

Guess you rode all by yourself eh?

If it were mine and I was concerned then I would see if the needles could move further in to increase mileage, or maybe adjust the air-mixture screws a bit. But that would be just me.

So going by what you just said, noise is there with the engine running but when you turn off the ignition and then the ignition back on again the noise continues with the engine off. It almost has to be electrical, and I say almost because strange things happen in this world.

Idle sounds good, now see how it performs on the road eh? No choke always makes me think that it's running a little rich on the idle circuit, not a big deal guess,, just thinking.

Oouchhh!! Guessing that it sitting for a length of time didn't help any either. Thinking you'll be happy to have it all cleaned up, and then be able to enjoy the ride once more.

Just for shets and giggles. Raise the bike up on a jack, making sure that the jack is perfectly level and the bike sits perfectly level on the jack, us a good level!!. Now set the front wheel to perfect center and keep it there by cross tying the handle bars so that the front wheel can't move, it needs to be perfect. Now take a string, butcher twine works well, and run it from the front wheel to the back wheel. The line should start and stop on the opposite side of where you run it. There can be no obstructions between the tires, so you'll have to be low enough to pass any issues, but the higher the better. Now the string should be touching 4 points on the tires on the measuring side. If not, then something is out. Adjust as necessary, but I wouldn't know how. Now that the bike is level you can also put a level on the wheels to check for plumb, but don't go by the tires, use the wheel only, because the tires will not be perfectly the same size at every point in their circumference.

I will be very interested in the opinion of others, I'm not very savvy when it come to rusty tanks and what to look for,,, but,,,, Yah you knew that was coming,,,, but,,,, looking at what I can see my thoughts are, there is rust there that is just waiting to plug a fuel filter, and if what I see is only a sampling then there is a great possibility that there could be just one little spot somewhere that is almost rusted through, which in short time will become a leak. Now how to fix that? well some have tried and been successful for a time, others have tried and had no success, but I will leave that up to them to tell the tales.

OHHHHH,,, so they are loaded your saying?

Are those tires tubeless?

Well,,,, welcome to you. Hope this site is everything you want it to be.

So does this sound happen when the engine is running, or when it's off, or both. If it happens when the engine is off it has to be electrical, so then it's time to chase down the circuits.

It might be helpful to determine where the sound is coming from exactly, front of engine, back of engine, upper, lower, etc. Another approach would be to remove fuses one at a time to discover the circuit that is causing it, and then hopefully trace it closer to the point. Also removing the gas tank and/or seat might help you to locate it.

Lookin not so bad!!! Need more close-up pictures though.

It can be difficult to determine a noise once it's recorded and then played back, but it sounds like it might be the fuel pump.

It might yell at yah for a brief moment if you get on it hard, not a problem really. The sensor is not a pressure sensor but rather an oil level sensor. So when you crank on it then the oil in the pan will slosh to the back and cause a red light. No problem.